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Proust and his Time Capsule of Curiosities

Proust and his Time Capsule of Curiosities 1: The Search for the Real Proust 2: Proust in Love and Hate 3: Proust’s Daimon or Genius 4: Proust’s Sense of Humour 5: Death and a Cork-lined Room 6: The Cinematic Proust 1: The Search for the Real Proust They say people are changed byContinue reading “Proust and his Time Capsule of Curiosities”

Flying the Kite of Destiny: the life and death of Yukio Mishima

There is a pleasurable intensity in books that confess to sins or crimes that alienated the author yet seduce the readers. “Confessions of a Mask’ (1958) is like this – an autobiographical novel by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. It made him famous at the young age of 24, and gained a reputation in western circlesContinue reading “Flying the Kite of Destiny: the life and death of Yukio Mishima”