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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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…