Sublime

chauvinist

‘Mythomania’

bilious

John Updike’s The Centaur,

Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors,

Easily, he slept; and as he slept, the woman in the photograph took her arm from the pastor’s waist, and crossed the parched lawn towards the camera. Her black skirts, thickly beaded at the hem, obscured the view of Bethesda; then her fine and muddied boots came over the frame, and were first set squarely on the table, then one by one on the floor:

perfidy.

Julia Kristeva, Ishiguro, Moacyr Scliar, Magris, Semprun, Baricco, Updike