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CONTEXT #21

  • Reading Gérard Gavarry
  • Reading Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook
  • Revisiting Edward Dahlberg’s Because I Was Flesh
  • Five Feuilletons on Sergei Eisenstein
  • Translators in Conversation

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CONTEXT #20

  • Reading Aidan Higgins
  • from Flotsam and Jetsam
  • Reading Robert Pinget
  • from Trio
  • Reading Witold Gombrowicz

CONTEXT #19

  • Reading Piotr Szewc’s Annihilation
  • Reading Ivan Ângelo’s The Celebration
  • Reading Wallace Markfield’s To an Early Grave & Teitlebaum’s Window
  • Letter from Bulgaria
  • Letter from Russia

CONTEXT #18

  • Reading W. M. Spackman
  • Letter from Finland
  • Letter from Sarajevo
  • Interview with Mark Binelli
  • Interview with Thalia Field

CONTEXT #17

  • Reading Michal Ajvaz
  • Letter from France
  • Letter from Finland
  • Letter from Croatia
  • Interview with Jirí Grusa

CONTEXT #16

  • Reading Stefan Themerson
  • Reading Jean Echenoz
  • Reading Danielle Collobert
  • Letter from Peru: Pathways of the New Peruvian Narrative
  • Letter from Russia: Contemporary Émigré Writing

CONTEXT #15

  • Reading Patrik Ouredník
  • Letter from Russia: Contemporary Women’s Prose
  • Interview with Ariel Dorfman
  • Interview with Dubravka Ugresic
  • Nine-and-a-Half Americas

CONTEXT #14

  • Reading Jacques Jouet
  • Reading Pierre Klossowski
  • Reading Violette Leduc’s La Bâtarde
  • Reading Wilson Harris’s The Mask of the Beggar
  • Reading Nicholas Mosley

CONTEXT #13

  • Reading Lydie Salvayre
  • Reading Viktor Shklovsky with a little bit about Jonathan Franzen
  • Reading Ingeborg Bachmann
  • Reading José Saramago
  • From Picasso to the Cows: The Disappearance of Public Art in Chicago

CONTEXT #12

  • Reading Douglas Woolf’s Ya! & John-Juan
  • Reading Dubravka Ugresic Through Six Selected Sentences
  • Reading Louis Calaferte
  • Reading Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
  • Reading Jean-Philippe Toussaint

CONTEXT #11

  • Reading William Carlos Williams
  • Reading Georges Perec
  • Reading Aidan Higgins
  • Reading André Breton
  • Reading Osman Lins’s Avalovara

CONTEXT #10

  • Reading Raymond Roussel
  • Reading Marcel Bénabou
  • Reading Cesare Pavese
  • From "Art as Device"
  • Excursus on War

CONTEXT #9

  • Reading Danilo Kis
  • Reading Raymond Queneau
  • Reading Kathy Acker
  • Reading Stanley Elkin’s The Franchiser
  • From "A Letter to Edmund Gosse" and "Books Which Have Influenced Me"

CONTEXT #8

  • Reading Louis-Ferdinand Céline
  • Reading Harry Mathews
  • Reading Ben Marcus
  • Reading Ann Quin’s Berg
  • "The Author’s Prologue" from Gargantua and Pantagruel

CONTEXT #7

  • Reading Jaimy Gordon
  • Reading Robert Walser
  • Reading Alasdair Gray
  • New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea, Part II
  • From Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

CONTEXT #6

  • Reading Vladimir Nabokov
  • Reading Pierre Guyotat
  • Reading Lydia Davis
  • Reading Luis Rafael Sanchez
  • From Forms and Substances in the Arts

CONTEXT #5

  • Reading Stanley Elkin
  • Reading B. S. Johnson
  • Reading Elio Vittorini
  • Reading John Barth
  • From Peri Bathous

CONTEXT #4

  • Reading Claude Simon
  • Reading Thomas Bernhard
  • Reading James Joyce
  • Reading Carol De Chellis Hill
  • “A Bash in the Tunnel”

CONTEXT #3

  • Reading Manuel Puig: A Biographer’s View
  • Reading Coleman Dowell’s Island People
  • Reading Nathalie Sarraute
  • From Gargantua and Pantagruel Book 2, Chapter 7
  • From the Letters of Claude Debussy

CONTEXT #2

  • Reading Carole Maso
  • Reading Jacques Roubaud
  • Reading Jean Rhys
  • From Tristram Shandy, Volume VI, Chapter XL
  • From Don Quixote de la Mancha, Book Two, Chapter One

CONTEXT #1

  • Reading Flann Brian O’Brien O’Nolan
  • Reading Beckett’s Fiction
  • Reading Diane Williams
  • Reading David Markson
  • “The Parallels!” Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges
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CONTEXT is a triquarterly publication intended to create an international and historical context in which to read modern and contemporary literature. Its goal is to encourage the development of a literary community.

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