{Translator’s Preface} What follows is a translation of a manuscript found among my father’s papers. The translation is […]
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History History has become the vengeful god. History has become the divine judgment, always accurate, unassailable, providing no […]
1. Life surpasses all attempts at capture, and so we fool ourselves by reducing it to a few […]
I sit down on the metro and go round and round on the Koltsevaya line. It’s a godsend […]
The civilised world is the rushing world. It lays before us like a responsibility or an unfinished task. […]
Black coffee is good. Even better if you also have a banana, because if you eat your banana […]
There was a War in Peace Studies. At the corner of his vision he saw the regional official, […]
The story begins the moment the Mother tells the Grandmother that there is going to be a baby: […]
Franzi reads Roland Barthes It’s 1998. The lecture has just ended and Franzi’s favourite professor asks her to […]
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” ‘La […]
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