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Categoría: Hudson Review
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Of Craft and Matter
The foreground of the most looked-at painting in the museum is partly taken up by a painting seen from the back. Everything in Las Meninas seems overt and at the same time […]
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Rounds of the Prado: The Place of Painting
Each morning, for the past few months, I have left my house and followed the same route to the Prado. In a bag slung over my shoulder, I keep a […]
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Siegfried’s Bloodline
Music can have a decisive influence in a person’s life and in a nation’s history. Were it not for a brief passage in the second volume of Ian Kershaw’s biography […]
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Mr. Nobody
I Who Have Been So Many Men. He opens his eyes in the dark, and hearing nothing but silence, he cannot tell where he is, or the time, the day, the […]
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Lives and Misfortunes of Lorenzo Da Ponte
How many lives was Lorenzo Da Ponte able to live in the eighty-nine years that took place between his birth in a Jewish ghetto outside Venice in 1749 and his […]
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The Lineage of Thomas De Quincey
Whether you know it or not, if you write creatively for a newspaper and let yourself drift through the city in a tide of strangers; if you shudder at the […]
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Don Quixote or the Art of Becoming
Becoming, not being, is what the Novel as an art form is all about, and that is why we regard Don Quixote as the first modern fictional hero. In epic […]
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On the Experience of Fiction
Long before we learn the first things about books and specifically novels, we are already fully acquainted with the most sophisticated devices of narrative fiction. Books belong in libraries and […]
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The Lighthouse at the End of the Hudson
For some time, I went down to the edge of the Hudson, to run along a path that then reached north to 125th Street and now extends up to the George […]
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Moby-Duck
There are books that someone plans and writes in an orderly fashion about a particular topic. There are others that seem to write themselves and grow, guided more or less […]