Classics should not be taken so seriously sometimes. I know I am contradicting myself because the previous one had me in some spiral. This time, I am talking about Marcel…
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When Murder Becomes a Story: On De Quincey’s Fine Art of Killing
First published in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1827, Thomas De Quincey’s On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts takes the form of a satirical lecture delivered to an imaginary…
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When Hope Becomes the Monster: What From Understands About Survival
Hope is rarely treated as something dangerous. Across literature, religion, and philosophy, it is often imagined as the force that enables human beings to endure suffering and imagine a life…
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What We Choose Not to See: On Kawabata’s Dandelions
Some books don’t try to be understood—they ask to be felt, quietly, like grief that never quite finds a voice. Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata is one of those books. Sparse…
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Is This My Classics Era? A First Encounter with Dostoevsky
I’ve never been a fan of the classics. At least, not until recently. Sure, I’ve picked up a Jane Austen here, a Virginia Woolf there—mostly because everyone else was reading…