JAVIER MARÍAS:
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EL FANTASMA Y LA SEÑORA MUIR tiene una particularidad que seguramente pocas otras películas comparten con ella: uno desea desesperadamente la muerte de la protagonista, contra la cual, sin embargo, no tiene nada. Al contrario: el personaje interpretado por Gene Tierney, Lucy Muir, es alguien que resulta simpático y conmovedor desde su primera aparición en escena, cuando, viuda desde hace un año, decide abandonar a sus antipáticas cuñada y suegra e irse a vivir junto al mar…

Sharon Cameron
The Bond of the Furthest Apart
Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka

In Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar a young girl, who we discover is dying, looks on without expression, one might almost say without interest, or with interest dulled by her invalidism, from a supine position on a couch as the camera shifts to two still younger children, the objects of her attention: Marie and Jacques taking a pinch of salt to feed Balthazar, a baby…

Luc Moullet
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The basis of Puissance de la parole (The Power of Speech) is the eponymous lyrical-scientific-metaphysical dialogue, written by Edgar Poe in 1846, between Oinos and Agathos, two angels (“in the period when we were mortal,” says Oinos) – from which Jean-Luc Godard takes 58 out of 149 lines, only replacing the word “ion” with “atom,” – and two pages of dialogue between ex-lovers in The Postman Always Rings Twice, written by James Cain in 1936, quoted in…

ANNE CARSON
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Homer’s odysseus is a man who wants to eat the world. He has an appetite for tasting, knowing, possessing everything he sees, he is a hero of acquisition, he is “one who knows profit,” as Homer says. How does Homer heroize this pragmatic person? He complicates him economically: there is a vexing of the question how ideal or honorable profit differs from greedy gain. Similar issues play out in two modern reworkings of the Odyssey, Alberto Moravia’s…