I’m reading bibliography for my book on sons’ memoirs about fathers, which is now beginning to pass its first preliminary stage, though I still have no title, contract, or a delivery date. My current target is checking whether my intuitions can be transformed into a solid working hypothesis and a sound thesis. I believe that […]
If I write here about the books I’m preparing, I eventually shame myself into writing them, so here we go. I had been reading for a while for a book on secondary characters in the European novel when it struck me that the committee judging the research exercises (or ‘sexenios’) might consider it Comparative Literature […]
I was going to start writing my projected book on secondary characters, but then I realized that since it is not exclusively focused on English-language literature but on a selection of European novels in different languages, I might have problems presenting it in my next research assessment exercise (the board might value negatively my straying […]