Catherine Eisner
Friday, 28 March 2014
Graham Greene: Furtive Mind of the Man on the Clapham Omnibus
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The blind spot that is the ‘beam in the eye’ for the self-referential literary egoists I belabour in my previous post http://catherineeisner...
Monday, 24 March 2014
Secret-Sharers . . . Henry James and Joseph Conrad’s Junoesque Women
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Since my last post, it has been pointed out to me by a Jamesian scholar that Henry James shared Joseph Conrad’s tendency to fixate on exceed...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Joseph Conrad’s Amazonian Warrioresses in the Sex War . . . . . . sans Stovepipe Hats
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A recent feature in a magazine, a profile of that infinitely subtle actress, Isabelle Huppert, prompted me to reread Joseph Conrad’s The Ret...
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Sussex Exodus of Altisonant Rats: Schoolboy’s Mock-Heroic Epic
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That art is non-utile is a self-conscious truism voiced oftenest by post-Marxian cynics. As Oscar Wilde, a socialist manqué, makes clear...
Friday, 7 March 2014
Rates of Exchange: ‘Ici. Français assassinés par les Boches.’
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I have mentioned here and there, somewhat tangentially, the dilemma of my German-born father, accused by his sister in a fierce letter from ...
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