The world is too little

2 min read

The world is too little

A surrealist landscape of love and hate, politesse and war

This article is from...

The TLS Magazine

19 April, 2024

Read this article and 8000+ more magazines and newspapers on Readly

The Critic

Life, imaginary love and forbidden lust

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...

The TLS

‘maybe she’s an enemy of the people’

Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky, editors All the World on a Page A critical anthology of modern Russian poetry 560pp. Princeton University Press. £35 (US $39.95). Russian modernist poetry has long bee

The TLS

Life lived on the surface

Simone De Beauvoir The Image of HerTranslated by Lauren Elkin208pp, Penguin Vintage Classics, £14.99 The first reviews of Simone De Beauvoir’s novel Les Belles images (1966) were dismissive. Some crit

The TLS

In brief

Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec

The TLS

Reading between the lines

Enrique Vila-Matas Montevideo Translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott 240pp. Yale University Press. £14.99 (US $27). “Words are poor mountaineers and poor miners”, lamented the young Franz Kaf