Parallel Campaigns
Robert Musil’s ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’ and David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ are two of the most meaningful and comprehensive works of the 20th century. Robert Musil’s ‘Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften’…
The Privilege of the Sponge
In 2007 Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz entered the literary spotlight with a much appreciated debut novel. In four loosely connected episodes he transposed the peculiar and sometimes tragic relationship between…
David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men & London’s Olympic Epiphany
As this inclement and balmy London summer draws to a close, the ICA plays host to Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace’s darkly comic collection of short stories,…
For the love of literature
Most people who are interested in Literature in a theoretical or academic way have points in their careers when they encounter a personal disappointment about their object of study; a…
Jonathan Franzen’s post-postmodernism
We’ve stumbled upon a very interesting review of Stephen Burns’ Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism (2008), written by the Danish scholar Tore Rye Anderson for Politics and Culture. ”Despite (…) lavish…
To engage in literature
In Rethinking Postmodernism(s) Katrin Amian declares that “Postmodernism, it seems, is history”[1] for the simple reason that “the term appears to have exhausted its potential as a means of…
