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A passage from Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf animated
“Herman Hesse’s 1927 novel Steppenwolf is a curious mixture of mysticism and existential angst. It tells the story of a strange man who appears one day in an unnamed town and rents an attic apartment....
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Writing Contest
If you could single out one thing that needs to change, what would it be? Enter the writing contest. Tell your story. Start changing the world. CLOSING DATE: 28 FEBRUARY 2013 Enter the Competition The...
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Short Story Contest
If you could single out one thing that needs to change, what would it be? Enter the short story contest. Tell your story. Start changing the world. CLOSING DATE: 28 FEBRUARY 2013 Enter the Competition...
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Poetry Contest
If you could single out one thing that needs to change, what would it be? Enter the poetry contest. Tell your story. Start changing the world. CLOSING DATE: 28 FEBRUARY 2013 Enter the Competition The...
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The relationship between literature and philosophy
If I am wrong about everything around me, can I still be me? In a piece on the relationship between the novel and modern philosophy, William Egginton points out that the ‘evil demon’ Descartes uses as...
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LibArts London Summer School
“What shall we choose? Weight or lightness?” Milan Kundera’s question sets the scene for our summer school. Kundera says that the heavier the burden we carry, the more truthful our lives become. The...
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Professor Andersen’s Night by Dag Solstad
Beyond God and society: A Christmas Murder Mystery with a Kierkegaardian twist By Herselman Hattingh, Published on 28 January 2013 [Spoiler alert: There will be existential spoilers in this article,...
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There’s no way out of sociology
From N+1: “We live in the emerging mainstream moment of the sociology of taste. … This spread of sociological thinking has led to sociological living — ways of thinking and seeing that are constructed...
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After the Holocaust: Imre Kertész on writing
Instead of survivors maintaining silence and thus refusing to use aesthetic modes in order to fathom the complex network of individual, social, and cultural causes that resulted in the Holocaust,...
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“Blood”, a story by Blake Butler
Over time, he seemed to have less and less control of what he was doing. He watched himself eat food he did not want to eat, read books he did not wish to read, go places even knowing he’d much rather...
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“Three Days” by Thomas Bernhard
“The difficult thing is getting started. For a stupid person that isn’t difficult at all, indeed, he doesn’t even know what difficulty is. He makes children or makes books, he makes one child, one...
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