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...time we get to the "Last Station" itself, the Astapovo railway station where Tolstoy died, Hoffman finally lets Valentin fade into the background and the focus rest on Leo and Sofya. What you carry away from the movie is the reminder that a deathbed is the place where the living stake their possession for the last time and then watch it evaporate in irrelevance. Not a bad end for an imperfect movie...
...that’s how he wrote it, but he pronounced it Magana, so that when he said it you heard Macgana, as if the self-sucking faggot was of Scottish descent.” Soon enough, Harry Magaña disappears and never returns. The inconsequence of his place in the world of “2666,” like so many of its characters, projects the novel’s style out onto its very structure; the events and characters in the novel’s five books don’t intersect so much...
...criticism of Bolaño’s fiction is that he mystifies the time and place of his focus, that he covers over the reality of his stories with surrealistic affect, but “2666” abandons all traces of that affect for an unflinching, procedural language that bypasses poetic imagery or strips it to its disturbing core. The Part About the Crimes, the longest section of the novel and its most infamous, unfolds 300 pages of stark summary, illustrating the various cases of kidnapping and murder that took place in and around Santa Teresa between...
...much-needed hiatus from the feverish pace of campus life. Among those who are choosing to remain in Cambridge, however, are 20 undergraduates who will be taking part in a unique opportunity: the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) Institute’s January Undergraduate Theater Training Intensive. This program, taking place between January 5 and January 24, will take advantage of the intersession period to immerse students in graduate-level theater training...
Congressman Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” If that’s true, we hope that Harvard students are paying attention to the local election taking place next Tuesday: the primaries for the Senate seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56. On the Democratic side, there is one candidate who best seems to follow in the tradition of great representatives like Kennedy or O’Neill—whose congressional seat he now holds. This candidate is Michael E. Capuano...