The Quixote Sub Specie Aeternitatis: The Philosophical Significance of the Spanish Golden Age
Todo es mentira, ya verás La poesía es la única verdad Sacar belleza de este caos es virtud – Continue reading
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Hume’s Aesthetics: On the Standard of Taste
There is undoubtedly a variety of opinion in matters of art appreciation – someone may, for example, detest Damien Hirst’s Continue reading
Moebius: 40 Days in the Desert
French comic book artist and illustrator Jean Giraud (1938-2012), aka Moebius, has had, perhaps, a more profound influence on the Continue reading
Seoul Stories: Han Kang, Violence and Candlelight
The day I stood shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of my fellow civilians, staring down the barrels of Continue reading
The Infinite Labyrinth of Time in Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths”
In his story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Jorge Luis Borges explores the labyrinth, the writer, and perhaps above all, Continue reading
Jan Svankmajer: Surrealism in the Contemporary World
Following the much documented downfall of Surrealism as a movement we find numerous contemporary artists working in its idiom but Continue reading
Calvino’s Cosmicomics: Time and the Hunter (or t zero)
To me, there’s virtually no doubt that Italo Calvino is a literary genius. Each one of his works create either Continue reading
Creating a Character, 2: Bernard Malamud and J.G. Ballard
The question remains: How does a skilled writer establish a good character in so few pages? And how does it relate to their overall style and composition?
Blue Labyrinths 