Lidia Voskresenskaya
04/04/2014
Here we have my great-aunt Lidia and son Cyrill riding in a carriage, Moscow 1915. From about 1971 to 1982 we corresponded, in French of course. Axé.
Like magic
04/04/2014
I have received photographs of family graves in Moscow. They are sharing headstones. Fyodor and Anna Samoiloff Aleksandr and Cyrill Voskresensky Lidia Voskresenskaya and Henrietta Kahn Axé.
Marcelo Viñar
02/04/2014
…homologar la tortura y el genocidio a las generalidades de la Neurosis traumática es desconocer su especificidad, la que radica en que es otro humano –un semejante– el que tramita racionalmente nuestro oprobio o destrucción. A partir de allí –y a perpetuidad–, la pregunta de quién es el prójimo se planteará sin cesar con otra … More Marcelo Viñar
Este fin de semana
31/03/2014
I have misplaced this book and I want to see it for nearly fetishistic reasons as Mazzotti’s review is almost enough. Still, I want to see it and fortunately they have it at Tulane, and very fortunately, I am going there Friday. Yes, I just got back from New Orleans last night and I am … More Este fin de semana
…with a wild surmise
31/03/2014
I am mortally offended and in touch with many years of anger. I see who and what I am dealing with. I am not sure what to do. Two have resigned, and four are considering it. Ride it out, says another colleague. Perhaps, but the big change for me is that I see we are … More …with a wild surmise
Vallejo, el extranjero
31/03/2014
…it seemed that if we could only decide who Vallejo was we might know what his poems mean. Was this so and if it was, were we just falling prey to some form of the intentional fallacy? Not necessarily. It was that these poems were coming from a uneven, multi-leveled and multilayered collage of contexts, only some of … More Vallejo, el extranjero
La ville, ma ville, comme elle était belle, comme elle est belle toujours.
31/03/2014
De la musique, pour le weekend que l’on a passé. Axé.
Sobre la filología
29/03/2014
Many today do not recognize the word, but “philology” was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as religion, history, culture, art, archaeology, and more. In short, philology was the … More Sobre la filología
Dream
29/03/2014
Today I was supposed to be participating in a Saturday service activity I abhor but had steeled myself for. Last night, however, I felt ill for unrelated reasons and e-mailed my dean, who organizes this activity, apologizing and saying I would have to go to the clinic this morning instead of the service activity. I … More Dream
An e-mail I received
29/03/2014
Dear Z, Now that I have seen the madre patria I have a different and deeper understanding of you. I have much to recount, but I am distracted by the beauty of this place. — and I have spent a truly glorious day after the interview in — and later in —. We stopped for drinks … More An e-mail I received
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