Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Felisberto Hernández, Selected Stories
Video of lecture by Jon Beasley-Murray for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
“The Yellow Wallpaper”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is preoccupied above all with the secret and mysterious life of things. It’s concerned with the human and the non-human, and the surprisingly porous line between them. The narrator takes for granted that things … Continue reading →
Civilization and Its Discontents
Like Nietzsche in On the Genealogy of Morals, Sigmund Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents is interested in the puzzling fact that ultimately we are our own worst enemies. However hostile life may be–and in Freud’s vision of things, life … Continue reading →