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The great disillusionist In an age when so many people are at a loss to give life meaning and direction, Giacomo Leopardi is essential reading Tim Parks AEON 13 November, 2018 Tim Parks is a British author, translator and essayist. He has written 14 novels, the latest of which is In Extremis (2017), and has translated works by Italo Calvino, Niccolò Machiavelli and Giacomo L..

Dystopia In Fiction And In Fact How “Nineteen Eighty-Four” teaches us the wrong lessons about dictatorship… by Nathan J. Robinson The Current AffairsNovember 04, 2018 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, it’s easy to tell that things in Oceania are somewhat amiss. The first clue should be the numerous signs that say “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” The ubiquitous grime, rubble, ..

Himmler’s Antiquity By Alison C. Traweek LARB October 18, 2018 IN 1924, as a secretary and propaganda assistant for the young Nazi Party, Heinrich Himmler was spending a great deal of time on a train as he traveled Bavaria promoting his party. He had with him a small treatise on the German race called de Origine et Situ Germanorum, or On the Origin and Situation of the Germa..

[아무튼, 주말] 우리 집에 살던 독일 교환학생은 왜 울었을까 조선일보 김형석 연세대 명예교수 입력 2018.11.03 03:00 [김형석의 100세 일기] 일러스트= 이철원 큰손녀가 며칠 동안 독일에 갔다가 왔다. 오래간만에 연이 소식을 전해 들어 기뻤다. 오래전이다. 우리 집에 고등학교 2학년인 한 독..

"너도 배우니?" 美·유럽, 한글에 빠져들다조선일보 뉴욕=오윤희 특파원 파리=손진석 특파원 입력 2018.10.09 03:01 [오늘 한글날] K팝 바람 타고… 美서 중국·독일어 수강 급감, 한국어 65% 급증 프랑스 파리 중심부의 시앙스포(파리정치대학). 사회과학 분야 엘리트를 양성하는 명문으로서 에..

Literature & CultureLenny Boy A personal essay on family, death, and the healing power of music October 2, 2018 Peter E. Gordon Boston Review, Oct 2, 2018 Leonard Bernstein would have turned 100 this August. As many centenary reflections have shown, it is hard to tell the story of this Great American Conductor-Composer without lapsing into the heroic style, turning his outsized..

The Return of Islam Bernard Lewis Commentary, Jan. 1, 1976 In the great medieval French epic of the wars between Christians and Saracens in Spain, the Chanson de Roland, the Christian poet endeavors to give his readers, or rather listeners, some idea of the Saracen religion. According to this vision, the Saracens worshipped a trinity consisting of three persons, Muhammad, the ..

What Exactly is ‘The West’?By Bradley J. BirzerThe American ConservativeSeptember 6, 2018, 4:30 PM From the book, “Frank Brangwyn and His Work. 1910” Published in 1911. (Public Domain) #google_ads_iframe_\/339474670\/ADN_Native\/TAC_Native_1__container__ {padding: 10px 0; margin-bottom: 20px; border-top: solid 1px #000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000} #related_content ul..

[Why] 모가지가 길어서 슬픈 짐승이여… 기댈 데 없는 외로움을 읊다조선일보 김동길 단국대 석좌교수·연세대 명예교수 입력 2018.09.01 03:02 [김동길 인물에세이 100년의 사람들] <39>노천명(1911~1957) 산나물 같은 사람을 찾아 헤매던 시인 단지 사나운 표범에 쫓겨 일제와 인민군 지지했을..

Fascism, Real and Imagined Nicholas Farrell Chronicles AUGUST 09, 2018 A personal and national narrative of resistance to globalism Twenty years ago I somehow managed to get my act together and get out of Paris, where I had haunted a cheap hotel for a year in the wake of the death of Princess Diana like the ghost of the Marlon Brando character in Last Tango in Paris. And so I ..