Monday, January 18, 2016

Faulkner's Scientific-Poetic Dynamo

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When William Faulkner arrived in Stockholm to receive his Nobel prize for literature he supposedly declared his occupation as “farmer.” (...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Parallax

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The great modernists did not share postmodernists’ suspicion of science. Leopold Bloom, for example, the protagonist of James Joyce’s  Ul...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

A Critique of Pure Ignorance

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On AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner William Faulkner, the colossus of American modernism who often said he wrote “to depict the human...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Ruined Cottage Cheese

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When I was in medical school, a GI surgeon opened a lecture with a statement I’m sure has never been uttered before or since. “I have a conf...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Paysannes: Madame Bovary Part III

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What’s the difference between a work of art and a dream? Legendary literary critic Jacques Barzun gives a concise and convincing answer: “th...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

The Allagash Rule of Perpetual Motion and Brouillard dans la tête: Madame Bovary Part II

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Flaubert shows the reader early on that Madame Bovary’s flight from one place to another brings her no relief, for her complaint is with no ...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Lieuvain: Madame Bovary Part I

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In 2006 David Foster Wallace wrote in the New York Times Magazine that you can appreciate tennis great Roger Federer even more “if you’ve pl...