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Issue 5.3 Previous Issues

The Semblances of Roberto Bolaño

When a priest and literary critic returns from providing secret lessons on Marxism to General Pinochet in Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile (2000), his friend asks him what the new Chilean leader is like. “I shrugged my shoulders, as people do in novels, but never in real life” is his response (Bolaño, 2000: 97). Bolaño’s fiction displays an uncanny ability to undercut the art form…

Issue 5.1 Previous Issues

Caring about things in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold

Ruth Charnock January 5, 2016 No Comments anthropology of the present Bill Brown contemporary culture contemporary literature Heidegger Jennifer Egan Lacan object Shame Silvan Tomkin Siri Hustvedt thing theory thingness

What does it mean to care about things? The Blindfold, Siri Hustvedt’s first novel, dangles this question in a series of set-pieces, moments of glimpsing into the weirdness of the everyday, the objects that fill it and the ways in which these objects are, might, should or shouldn’t be handled. The Blindfold’s objects are animate or border on animation…