Wednesday, 11 September 2024

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's Lee (1991)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s Lee is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Janet Ingraham for Library Journal, 15 September 1991. I copied the text from Amazon and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture (1994)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s Opportunities in Alabama Agriculture is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Robert Jordan for Library Journal, 1 November 1994. I copied the text from the Barnes and Noble website and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's Fields of Asphodel (2007)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s Fields of Asphodel is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Jim Dwyer for Library Journal, 15 June 2007. I copied the text from the Barnes and Noble website and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Library Journal Reviews Tito Perdue's New Austerities (1994)

[This brief review of Tito Perdue’s New Austerities is reproduced for the benefit of enthusiasts and bibliomanes. By Harold Augenbraum for Library Journal, 1 May 1994. I copied the text from the Barnes and Noble website and trusted the date from encyclopedia.com.]

Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Robert Nye on Tito Perdue's Lee (1991)

[Robert Nye gives Tito Perdue’s Lee a bad review. An interesting exercise in missing the point. Nye notices the absence of plot and spends a lot of ink on it. But this does not seem to have reminded him to attend to the book’s other riches. From ‘Read between the Lines and Find a Full Stop,’ The Guardian (7 November 1991), p. 28. Excerpted here for enthusiasts and the bibliographically curious.]

Monday, 2 September 2024

Anne Whitehouse Reviews Tito Perdue's Lee (1991)

[I trust the Times will not object to my reproducing this short review by Anne Whitehouse (New York Times, 24 November 1991) of Tito Perdue’s Lee for the benefit of fellow enthusiasts. Bibliography of works of and on Tito Perdue here.]

Saturday, 9 March 2024

Cioran on Aphorism and Aphorists

At the back of the monumental Oeuvres of E. M. Cioran (Gallimard, 1995) is a ‘Glossaire’ which gathers snippets from letters and interviews alphabetically by topic. Here follows a rough translation of some fragments on aphorism and aphorists.


Aphorisms (p. 1,736)

Aphorisms are instantaneous generalities.

I can only express results. My aphorisms aren’t really aphorisms. Each of them is the conclusion of a whole page, the end of a little bout of epilepsy.

I let everything else go and I give only the conclusion, like in a courtroom where, in the end, there’s only the verdict: condemned to death. Without thought’s unfolding: just its result. That’s my way of doing things, my formula.