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I’ve recently added a search function so that you can limit your Google search to just the blogs that are members of MetaxuCafe. I think that will be a good resource for everyone looking for literary topics online and you’ll find it right on the front page as well as other places on the site. Now if you want to read about, say Orhan Pamuk, but only want to search the litblogs you trust, you can narrow your search right here.
The rules of reading
by saintclow on June 17, 2007
You know how the way we read certain books and certain authors influences to a certain extent the way we understand them. I mean, we read books according to what they are supposed to be. It may not always be a critical process, but it’s nonetheless very conscious. On a rarefied level, there are, say, the Talmudic readings–dating from the fifth and sixth centuries BC in Babylonia and Palestine up till the standard scholarly edition of the Talmud was produced in the late 19th century–and the Kafka readings because Kafka is perhaps the only writer who has been read in so many ways by so many different people. For a while there (and I’m not alone in this sort of reading, I think), I thought “Metamorphosis” was an urban legend comedy and subsequently found it very funny–all those bugs, y
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