Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or on Twitter. Some of the links to PDFs disappear quickly so download them promptly.
Jorge Luis Borges
The Signifying Corpse: Re-Reading Kristeva on Marguerite Duras by Karen Piper [PDF]: “Moderato cantabile, far from the sweet and melodious story the title suggests, is centred around the sound of a scream.”
A Dictionary of Borges [PDF] by Evelyn Fishburn and Psiche Hughes (Forewords by Mario Vargas Llosa and Anthony Burgess).
One of my favourite of JG Ballard’s short stories: The Concentration City [PDF].
Jonathan McCalmont’s perceptive analysis of the ambiguities of the brilliant film Fish Tank.
Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex [PDF] by Judith Butler. “In fact, we can see in The Second Sex an effort to radicalize the Sartrian program to establish an embodied notion of freedom.”
A Writer from Chicago [PDF] by Saul Bellow. “Neither in brash, and now demoralised, Chicago nor in New York, the capital of victorious mass culture (American culture is the culture of the TV networks), will any writer try to live like an artist. If he is a person of any degree of seriousness, why would he want to?”
James Joyce’s sublime A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [PDF-Full].
Complete Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in PDF – 3 books. This is Longfellow’s translation.
The Library of Babel [PDF] by Jorge Luis Borges.
A wonderful Anne Carson essay, Contempts [PDF] .
Patrick Leigh Fermor: We May Just Forget to Die [PDF] by Margot Demopoulos.
Gabriel Josipovici’s brilliant Kafka essay: Why we don’t understand Kafka.
James Joyce’s essential Ulysses [PDF-Full].
Two by Friedrich Nietzsche: my favourite Ecce Homo (How One Becomes What One Is) and The Antichrist (A Curse on Christianity) [PDF]. A new translation by Thomas Wayne.
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