Last week I confessed my gradual loss of enthusiasm over Anna Karenina, a novel whose last sections I mostly skipped. This week I confess that I had a similar problem with Studs Terkel’s Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974). This is a collection […]
La semana pasada confesé mi paulatina pérdida de entusiasmo por Anna Karenina, una novela cuyas últimas secciones me salté en su mayoría. Esta semana confieso que tuve un problema similar con Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) de Studs Terkel. Se trata de […]
I must confess my total and utter failure to enjoy Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina (serialized 1875-1877 and printed in a single volume in 1878). I started with the customary patience I use when reading very long texts (1096 pages in my edition, the excellent 2000 translation by husband-and-wife team Richard Pevear and Larissa […]
Debo confesar mi total y absoluto fracaso a la hora de disfrutar de la novela clásica de León Tolstoi Anna Karenina (publicada por entregas entre 1875 y 1877 e impresa en un solo volumen en 1878). Empecé con la paciencia habitual que empleo cuando leo textos muy largos (1096 páginas en mi edición, la excelente […]
I was supposed to take part in a seminar next week, which I’ll have to miss, with a talk about how to use AI correctly. In this talk I was going to describe, once more, how the late Iain M. Banks presents AI in his Culture novels (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series). The Culture is a post-scarcity, […]
La semana que viene iba a participar en un seminario, que tendré que perderme, con una charla sobre cómo utilizar correctamente la IA. En esta charla iba a describir, una vez más, cómo el difunto Iain M. Banks presenta la IA en sus novelas sobre la Cultura (véase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series). La Cultura es una sociedad […]
The book I’m currently working on, a study of secondary characters, has a corpus composed of 19th century novels in diverse European languages. I started with nine authors, but I have decided to abandon Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf because I found it impossible to sustain my interest in her novel Gösta Berling’s Saga (1891), which […]
El libro en el que estoy trabajando actualmente, un estudio de los personajes secundarios, tiene un corpus compuesto por novelas del siglo XIX en diversas lenguas europeas. Empecé con nueve autores, pero he decidido abandonar a la escritora sueca Selma Lagerlöf porque me resulta imposible mantener el interés por su novela Gösta Berlings Saga (1891), […]
So, this woman, Fiona Hill, an Anglo-American academic, foreign affairs advisor and author, who since 2023 has served as Chancellor of Durham University, Wikipedia dixit, was interviewed on Chanel 4. Political activist George Conway posted a bluit highlighting her declaration that “The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression.” His post got […]
Fiona Hill, académica, asesora de relaciones exteriores y autora angloamericana, que desde 2023 se desempeña como rectora de la Universidad de Durham, fue entrevistada en Chanel 4 hace un par de días. El activista político George Conway publicó un bluit sobre la entrevista, destacando que, según Hill, “Estados Unidos va camino de la represión estatal […]