Children of the Moon, Dancing to Death
Andr é Breton claimed, in the Surrealist Manifesto, that madness is a self-evidently American trait: only a ship of fools would have agreed to sail off with Columbus in 1492 into a seemingly endless ocean. In Book VI of Republic, Plato introduced the “ship of fools” parable in order to argue against Athenian democracy. If everyone claims the right to steer the ship, regardless of skill or aptitude in navigation, the ship will surely flounder and fail.
Amanda Wasielewski on Western historical representations of apocalypse and madness.
Suck my keyboard: call for submissions
60X1.com by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung (2003) My (ironic) aversion to dialectical readings of contemporary literature situates my critical disposition as resistant to Jamesonian interpretations of a historically-determined consciousness. For better or for worse, […]
Labyrinths of Astonishment: Sergio Pitol’s Literary Journeys
Pitol examines how writers attempt to respond to and understand the world through literature, and describes a process so continuous that his writing has a sense of the eternal.
West Camel on the first two volumes of Sergio Pitol‘s “Trilogy of Memory,” The Art of Flight and The Journey.