![]() ![]() Along the street, making his own path, he felt free as he had never felt before. ![]() He went to work on foot the trams were blocked by the snow. As it had fallen on lines and colors and views, the snow had fallen on noises, or rather on the very possibility of making noise sounds, in a padded space, did not vibrate. “Snow!” Marcovaldo cried to his wife that is, he meant to cry, but his voice came out muffled. Narrowing his eyes, he could make out, in the whiteness, some almost-erased lines, which corresponded to those of the familiar view: the windows and the roofs and the lamp-posts all around, but they were lost under all the snow that had settled over them during the night. He opened the window: the city was gone it had been replaced by a white sheet of paper. He couldn’t figure out what time it was, the light between the slats of the blinds was different from all other hours of day and night. Marcovaldo pulled himself out of bed with the sensation there was something strange in the air. ![]()
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James's biographers always compare Isabel and her novel to his own life. James's life-story could also be read as an ebullient comedy which turns to tragic sadness. Isabel Archer starts out full of hope, independence and ambition, and becomes "ground in the mill", entrapped and disillusioned. After that came the harsh, unpopular novels of social analysis ( The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima), the ill-fated involvement with the theatre, the awkward, darkly complex novels of the 1890s ( What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age), the epic, inward-looking subtleties of the mighty late works, and the financial catastrophe of the New York edition. But Portrait can also be seen as a point of no return. 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Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida, edited by Geoffrey Batchen (MIT Press) Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes (Vintage Classics) ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will not want to miss this thrilling new dark novella from a master storyteller. In the tornado-wracked ghost town of Nocturne, Lawson must face down monstrous enemies, the rising sun, and his own nature. That key lies with his maker, and now Lawson hopes to find LaRouge at the heart of a Louisiana swamp with the aid of a haunted priest and an unexpected ally. In the decades since, he has roamed late nineteenth-century America, doing what good he can as he travels by night, combating evils mundane and supernatural, and always seeking the key to regaining a mortal life. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Societys clutches. 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