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...shorter)! Heaven and earth, clouds and space! said Bachmann aloud. Not so loud! Halftan called.” These are the moments when Bachmann’s personal experiences of the war and his mental trauma become beautiful and disturbing without dwelling on the historical, social, or political context. While the latter half of the novel lacks the imagination of the former, it is rich in historical anecdotes, not only about the Germans and Nazis, but also the foreigners who worked alongside them, and what they thought about the war. As Bachmann’s mental state deteriorates, so does...
...Francisco Franco’s anti-Catalan Spain, Rodoreda faced not only suppression and exile but the extinction of her native language. Under Franco, Catalan’s very existence was threatened, banned outright in the public sphere and severely curtailed in the private sphere. In this context, while translations of Spanish language novels achieved worldwide fame and renown in the 1970s and 1980s, Catalan writers remained obscure, even after Franco’s death in 1975, when the ban on Catalan was lifted. With her translation of “Death in Spring,” Martha Tennent hopes...
...there are actually concerts—so the piano just kind of sits there. I’m not entirely sure if any drunk people have wandered from C entryway into the library on a Saturday night to play each other Chopin, but that seems to be the only context in which it would come...
...band’s meticulous attention to texture is evident in each of the twelve songs on “Living Thing.” Kanye’s caps-locked infatuation with the band is perhaps most understandable in the context of this new preoccupation with aural textures. However, “PB&J” often seems to mistake inventive production for good material. Every song on the album has interesting stylistic touches, but they frequently lack the melody and songwriting to come together into a coherent whole. While it is admirable that PB&J take an active...
...accepted practices and ways of treating each other that the use of such images and phrases promotes. The ways in which we portray one another and our ideals of “man” or “woman” are set not only in the context of Harvard but also in a larger world that too often objectifies and disempowers women without their consent. A little thought would go a long way toward avoiding contributing to this unfortunate reality...