I haven’t started reading yet the bibliography for my subject on the memoir as a literary genre, to be taught next year, though I have already a substantial bibliography. G. Thomas Couser’s Memoir: An Introduction (Oxford UP, 2012) seems to be the right text to begin reading. I don’t think, in any case, that academic […]
[Sorry about the long three-week absence, I have four books in my hands (two collective volumes, a monograph, a translation of a collective volume) and a journal issue, and no energy left to write. Also, blame Donald Trump for absorbing my mental energy with so much fretting about the appalling consequences of his random decisions] […]
[No, I’m not writing about Donald Trump’s victory. I don’t agree with any of the analyses I have read and there will be time enough to consider the catastrophes that his cabinet will cause in the USA and around the world. If we survive.] A couple of my students asked me how come I have […]