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Michèle Gerber Klein • Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dali
It’s not an idle allusion. Flaubert, writing a century earlier, had been looking for an alternative to Romanticism, a tendency he defined as broadly as Yvor Winters later did. The result, “Madame Bovary,” inaugurated a new, more formally conscious kind of realism. Williams identified something called “the Flaubertian novel, with its concern for
... See more“As an experience,” Virginia Woolf once declared, “madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.” To top it off, the allure of Woolf’s “madness” is not limited to this heady state of inspiration but also offers a kind of rare and perfect productivity. “It shoots out of
... See moreChristine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
In many classic short stories, the real action occurs in the silences.