Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience
8 best books like Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Giorgio Agamben): 2666, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, An American Tragedy, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Julie, or the New Heloise, On the Shores of Politics, Berlin Childhood around 1900, Histoire de la violence
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto...
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
| Author | Machado de Assis |
| ISBN | 0850515025 |
a sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery
we read an author and wonder 'how is it possible that this genius is not known?'... yes, only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. along with carpentier and mutis, he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot.
here are three reasons...
| Author | Theodore Dreiser |
| ISBN | 0451527704 |
On one level, An American Tragedy is the story of the corruption and destruction of one man, Clyde Griffiths, who forfeits his life in desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, the novel represents a massive portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's tawdry ambitions...
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0141036192 |
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...
| Author | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN | 0874518253 |
An elegant translation of one of the most popular novels of its time. Rousseau's great epistolary novel, Julie, or the New Heloise, has been virtually unavailable in English since 1810. In it, Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral...
| Author | Jacques Rancière |
| ISBN | 1844675777 |
It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end...
Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered "final...
| Author | Édouard Louis |
| ISBN | 2021177785 |
J’ai rencontré Reda un soir de Noël. Je rentrais chez moi après un repas avec des amis, vers quatre heures du matin. Il m’a abordé dans la rue et j’ai fini par lui proposer de monter dans mon studio. Ensuite, il m’a raconté l’histoire de son enfance et celle de l’arrivée en France de son...
