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No Ebooks at This Cafe and A House Made of BooksScott Esposito, August 5, 2010
The narrow inside space, multiplied and complicated by mirrors, evoke a sensation of sublime terror, an alteration referring to a puzzling infinity itself created to destabilize conventional spatial habits. Mirrors become an instrument to create illusion and, at the same time, to unmask it. Since the public can easily see themselves reflected in a false infinite – thus discovering the illusion – the problem becomes the latency of perception.
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Susan Bernofsky: Rediscovering a Lost Genius
Posted on March 9, 2009 byHow did everyone forget about Robert Walser? Although titians like Franz Kafka and Robert Musil celebrated him, Robert Walser went ignore for many years and has only recently begun attracting readers in the United States. Here Susan Bernofsky reads from her acclaimed translation of his first novel, The Tanners. She also discusses his microscripts, stories he wrote in handwriting so tiny that only a few experts can today read them. Bernofsky is an ideal guide to the unique writing and stirring thoughts of an author now being hailed—for a second time—as a literary genius.
