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There is supposed to be more Boleno being translated and published in English later this year. I must say that he is one of the best writers that I have come across in the last 5 years. I hope that you enjoy it Pbt.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>E</DIV>
why do you say that, dbc? what writing in particular? i will let you know after i read the essay (I love Proust). I like Benjamin's writing, it's so f-ing weird and beautiful.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
Well, I think a lot of the po-mo post-post-structuralists are very influenced by Benjamin's oddness. They don't seem to have quite got the "and beautiful" bit though!
ps. Faust, the Baudelaire essay is also very wonderful. Not as tightly crafted at the Image of Proust, but still marvelous. And also the key to the Arcades Project, according to many. Please do keep us posted on what you think of it all.
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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