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Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has …

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In Bartleby Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story…

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Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming …

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Madame Edwarda

"La verità di Madame Edwarda consiste nel confrontarci con uno scandalo palese che pure non sapremmo dove collocare. Potessimo incriminarne le parole: mai ve ne furono di così rigorose; o le circostan…

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