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About James F. David
See more books from this AuthorPoems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by Michael Hamburger 823pp, Anvil Press, £19.95 Some people have the capacity to read exotic or old works of literature - pre 19th century, let's say - without, so to speak, night vision, or 3-D specs;
Nov 20 2004 | Read Full Review of FragmentsWith few acquaintances her own age, Lucie's childhood friends were those of her parents - the aging Jeremy Bentham, JS Mill, and Heinrich Heine, whom she met in Boulogne.
| Read Full Review of FragmentsIn a long letter to her last analyst, Ralph Greenson, she recounts this incident only to humorously reassure him that she is a professional first to last: “I indicated if they didn’t let me out I would harm myself—the furthest thing from my mind at that moment since you know Dr. Greenson I’m an a...
Oct 20 2010 | Read Full Review of FragmentsThere is no mention of the Midwest in Gass’s Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, but the location is recognizably that of Gass’s earlier story: the heart of the heart of the country, the lonely heart of a person looking for love, a lonely mind reaching out for us, then shrinking back, complaining of i...
Dec 14 1972 | Read Full Review of FragmentsMaster theater maker Peter Brook proves the point with his exquisitely focused and affectingly plain Fragments, an hour-long five-pack of Beckett shorts that date between 1959 and '80.
Nov 14 2011 | Read Full Review of FragmentsHer poems illuminate experience as “both whole & wholly shattered.” To represent this version of experience, her associations have the measured linearity of rational thought, a quality that gives the poems a new old-fashioned feel: “I spent every day smashing dishes with one of my uncle’s hammers...
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