Larraín’s film meditates on the methods by which history is made, by which men and women of flesh and blood become figures of paper and ink.
The film hardly means whatever it claims — it’s too complex to merely equate sexual repression and political violence.
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He’s dedicated his life to taking care of the world. The misery, then, of these accumulated ailments — the arthritis, the vertigo, the deafness — isn’t just the pain they bring; it’s that he can no longer take care of the world because he can no longer take care of himself.
There’s something scary about the pronoun “I.” When we’re first taught to write essays, we’re told to avoid this word like the plague. “I” is by turns informal and inappropriate, both unworthy of the form and too intimate in its implications.
But what’s so wrong about the intimate? Is it so dangerous to reveal oneself to the reader? Why the hesitancy?
Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra’s latest book is a novelty — it’s a novel written in the form of a multiple choice exam
“Zero K” isn’t one of DeLillo’s best. But, in a few years when, perhaps, the global elite build their own Convergence and leave the plebeians to their mortal coils, it may be.
“O.J.: Made in America” gathers ironies and weaves them into an endlessly fascinating story of the vagaries of fame and an exposition of the historical forces that make America what it is.
Seidel writes the self — the main tool of the confessional mode and, basically, all lyrical poetry — into absurdity.
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