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Paul de Man. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke and Proust. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. 305 pp. A Review.
PAUL de Man’s Allegories of Reading deals with deconstructive criticism, a tradition of literary criticism which is closely related with Jacques Derrida and Harold Bloom. Paul de Man discusses the unreliability of language, an idea prevalent amongst deconstructionism. He claims that, because of this unreliability, reading is an impossible activity. Paul de Man argues that […]
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Mama Poochie Cartoons by Stefani Hidajat
October 26, 2021
One day I woke up and I felt like I want to draw a cartoon. I drew the first one with only marker and paper, enjoyed it very much and couldn’t stop. I often look at them and hoping that it can bring smile to those who read it. October 8th, 2021, fresh from the […]
Hotel Atlanta, Kurt Gödel
December 16, 2017
We go to Vienna every year (also before our son was born) and always stay at the same hotel in the University area. However, I just found out yesterday that Kurt Gödel lived there in the hotel building when he was a student at University of Vienna. Gödel was a mathematician and first time I […]
For he was awar…
April 3, 2013
For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don’t look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. – Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
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Samotnosc (Solitude) – Stefani Hid
March 28, 2013
Samotnosc (original title: Solitude) is a short story by Stefani Hid. This is a polish version translated by Natalia Laskowska (It is originally written in Bahasa Indonesia). __________ Doktorze, czuje sie osamotniona. Wcale nie mieszkam w strzezonej wiezy na bezludnej wyspie, ani w nieodkrytej przez nikogo dzungli. Nie jestem dróznikiem kolejowym w jakies odleglej wiosce. […]
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Madznun (Majenun) – Stefani Hid
March 28, 2013
Madznun (original title: Majenun) is a short story by Stefani Hid. This is a polish version translated by Natalia Laskowska (It is originally written in Bahasa Indonesia). ___________________ Madznun to pasozyt. Przykleja sie do innych ludzi, jak larwa do liscia. I bez przerwy sie zmienia, jak kameleon. Dopasowuje sie do otoczenia, kiedy tylko ma na […]
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“I have spent m…
February 15, 2013
“I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.” Oscar Wilde There is this paper that very “important” to me, and I have the same day like he had today. It was like an obsession, and I am not sure whether it is healthy […]
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Yellowbacks and W.H. Smith
February 7, 2013
Yellowbacks became popular in the Victorian era and this popularity marked an important period in book and publishing history. Described by Richard Altick as “the most inspired publishing invention of the era,”[1] they were known as ‘mustard-plaster’ cheap novels sold in bookstalls owned by W.H. Smith at the railway stations in Victorian Britain. Their covers […]
The Woman Reader in the 19th Century Britain
February 7, 2013
As the literacy of British society was increased in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, this meant also an increase in literacy rates of women. The fondness for reading of women made women take part significantly in literary market. Thus, the image of women as readers became common at that time. However, the patriarchal […]
Unscientific Postcript 
May 8, 2022
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