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Friday 05 February 2010

Josipovici's 'Everything Passes'

In a fleeting fit of energy midway through last year, I proposed to some fellow bloggers that a symposium, hosted here at RSB, on Gabriel Josipovici's superb novella Everything Passes would be a jolly good thing. Well, as I've discussed (in my recent Hamlet and Lear pieces) it quickly became obvious to me that, last year, I didn't have the energy to organise anything. So, I owe a sincere apology to those friends who wrote some wonderful pieces (which will soon see the light of day here on the site -- hopefully, next week) expecting the symposium to go ahead.


Happily, several bloggers have posted the would-be symposium pieces on their own sites. Richard Crary, Dan Visel, Steve Mitchelmore and now Waggish have all written pieces that expand upon the review Paul Griffiths wrote for me a couple of years back.


Please do read these excellent contributions, and then I'll have a few more up for you here on RSB next week.

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Reader Comments

Friday 05 February 2010

Lee Rourke says...

Mark,

I have one appearing soon(ish) too.

Nest, Lee.

Friday 05 February 2010

Mark says...

Good to know Lee. Looking forward to reading it...

Friday 05 February 2010

Jeff says...

Mark, hi there.

I reviewed _Everything Passes_ for _American Book Review_; you can't get to that via their website, but you can via this link:

http://www.jeffbursey.com/downloads/ABR_EP-GJreview-dub.pdf

I just finished _Two Novels: After & Making Mistakes_ - excellent work.

Hi there, Lee!

Jeff

Friday 05 February 2010

Mark says...

Nice one. Thanks Jeff.

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