By Michel Laub
From one among Granta's most sensible younger Brazilian Novelists, a literary masterpiece that might holiday your heart
At the narrator's elite Jewish university in a complicated suburb of Porte Alegre, a merciless prank leaves the single Catholic pupil there extraordinarily injured. Years later, he relives the episode as he examines the error of his prior and struggles for forgiveness. His father, who has Alzheimer's, obsessively documents each reminiscence that involves brain, and his grandfather, who survived Auschwitz, fills laptop after computing device with the fake thoughts of somebody eager to forget.
This robust novel situated on guilt and the advanced legacy of historical past asks provocative questions on what it capacity to be Jewish within the twenty-first century.
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Perhaps, in fact, Michel de Certeau has a particularly suggestive point when he argues that “The text was formerly found at school. Today the text is society itself ” (167). I am inclined to say that The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a case of the windmill in a walnut shell. * * * Chaucer expects a great deal from both his reading or his listening audience for The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: he depends on a heightened sense of plain action within a physical space while asking us to consider the disposition of those events within a textspace laden with cultural expectation.
39 The astrolabe clearly is not the convenient and f lexible f lat surface Latour values, but it is a hand-held model that connects the earthbound observer and the heavens—no minor event for Chaucer and his little Lewis, as we will see. Nichols goes on to say that Chaucer’s “showing the connection of the parts of the human body with the heavenly divisions or signs of the zodiac . . also reinforced the idea of a continuum between the individual human being and the visible world” so that “to perceive the universe scientifically was to know the boundaries of one’s own being” (4), making claims, then, for observing the space between here and there.
Bachelard is arguing for the “dynamic rivalry between house and universe” so that “we are far removed from any reference to simple geometrical forms” (47). indd 17 6/22/2011 4:23:17 PM 18 R E A SON A N D I M AGI N AT ION In fact, as Bachelard argues, “A house that is as dynamic as this [those of the medieval miniatures] allows the poet [or miniaturist or magician] to inhabit the universe” (51). And later: “This coexistence of things in a space to which we add consciousness of our existence, is a very concrete thing” (203).
