Category: Bibliography

Ramón Llull

22/12/2012

I am now studying the literature of the Iberian Peninsula so as to teach it and there is a lot to know that I did not. Ramón Llull knew classical Arabic and wrote his first book and other texts in it, for instance; he had learned Arabic so as better to convert the infidel, just … More Ramón Llull

Des livres

13/12/2012

I want books by Pico Iyer and Lisa Cohen, and I have to buy El espejo enterrado (Alfaguara 2010) for the culture course. I believe I already have another book I ordered for that class: Editors: Hart and Young Title: Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies Publisher: Arnold (distributed in USA by Oxford UP) Date: 2003 … More Des livres

Vicksburg Blues

25/11/2012

Here is a bronze statue of one of my ancestors. I could visit it in Vicksburg. That is one of those places where, when I go through, I can hardly believe I am there. It serves espresso now but Mark Twain would recognize it. Like Natchez it stands on bluffs above the Mississippi, on U.S. … More Vicksburg Blues

María

22/11/2012

The atmosphere in Jorge Isaacs’ novel María is truly right wing. We know he was a conservative, and that the novel is set on a plantation, but I had not read it since spending some time every week for several years chatting with some well-heeled conservative Christians and beginning to understand the gestalt of their … More María

Du sang, or, Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Denis de Rougemont

12/09/2012

The first part of this title was meant to be “On blood,” in French, but I see that it also means “You (fam.) sang” in Danish. I wonder what else it means. In any case, we are rereading Denis de Rougement, L’Amour et l’Occident, for fun; our profit on it is, we are daily more … More Du sang, or, Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Denis de Rougemont