Monthly Archives: February 2025

I was pleasantly surprised by how much my students enjoyed Adolphe. I thought they’d find it annoying and dull, but for the most part, they revelled in the philosophical melodrama just as I do — and the ones that didn’t seemed to warm to it in class discussion, as we started picking apart the centralContinueContinue reading “Adolphe, Benjamin Constant”

Is Achilles possible with powder and lead? Or the Iliad with the printing press, not to mention the printing machine? Do not the song and the saga and the muse necessarily come to an end with the printer’s bar, hence do not the necessary conditions of epic poetry vanish? But the difficulty lies not inContinueContinue reading “The Perfect Nine, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o”