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Many things were at stake in this game, apart from the usual pride that comes from winning “El Cl??sico,” as the match is called. Whoever won would jump ahead in the Spanish league title hunt, as the teams were tied in the league standings going into the game. The game would also pit an in-form Ronaldo—a player that cost Real a $130 million transfer fee alone—against Barcelona’s current golden boy, Lionel Messi, who was just coming off a four-goal performance against...
...Louise” prove that it’s possible to represent the inner life of a woman with complexity and grace. Gazing at her reflection in the window of a Chinese restaurant, the protagonist of Agnès Varda’s 1962 film “Cl??o de 5 à 7” despairs: “My unchanging doll’s face… this ridiculous hat… I can’t see my own fears. I thought everyone looked at me. I only look at myself. It wears...
...authors,” his declaration of Europe’s literary hegemony reveals a subtextual but unmistakable nationalism—or at least, regionalism—in the consideration of today’s arts and letters. French president Nicolas Sarkozy did not mind; crowing yesterday over Le Cl??zio’s success, he called the win “an honor for France, the French language, and the French-speaking world...
...author or a body of literature to a particular nation has become problematic in an age of migration. The intranational, intracontinental, and intercontinental movements of people have increased the number of “global citizens” and diluted many claims to a pure, national identity. Le Cl??zio is hardly an unambiguous “Frenchman”—although born in Nice and of French descent, he moved to Nigeria when he was eight, punctuated his life with long stays in Mexico and South America, married a Moroccan woman, and now splits his time...
...Cl??zio is just one example of a new breed of writers that cannot be tied to one nation—and who make M. Engdahl’s running tally seem especially ludicrous. More and more, the literary world will be confronted with authors writing in multiple languages and combining genres tied to different regions. In order to accommodate emerging literatures and appreciate the global citizen-author, intellectual leaders must indicate a willingness to shrug off literary nationalism and revise their mantra: how about “liberté, égalité, hybridit?...