Table of Contents

Title Page
READING

A Poet’s Prose
Where the Stress Falls
Afterlives: The Case of Machado de Assis
A Mind in Mourning
The Wisdom Project
Writing Itself - On Roland Barthes
Walser’s Voice
Danilo Kiš
Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke
Pedro Páramo
DQ
A Letter to Borges

SEEING

A Century of Cinema
Novel into Film: Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz
A Note on Bunraku
A Place for Fantasy
The Pleasure of the Image
About Hodgkin

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A Lexicon for Available Light
In Memory of Their Feelings

1. DANCERS ON A PLANE
2. EATING AND DANCING
3. THE KNIFE
4. THE SPOON
5. THE FORK
6. KNIFE, SPOON, FORK
7. DANCERS ON A PLAIN
8. SYMMETRIES
9. SILENCES
10. IN MEMORY OF THEIR FEELINGS

Dancer and the Dance
Lincoln Kirstein
Wagner’s Fluids
An Ecstasy of Lament
One Hundred Years of Italian Photography
On Bellocq
Borland’s Babies

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Certain Mapplethorpes
A Photograph Is Not an Opinion. Or Is It?

THERE AND HERE

Homage to Halliburton
Singleness
Writing As Reading
Thirty Years Later …
Questions of Travel
The Idea of Europe (One More Elegy)
The Very Comical Lament of Pyramus and Thisbe
Answers to a Questionnaire

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Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo

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“There” and “Here”
Joseph Brodsky
On Being Translated

BY SUSAN SONTAG

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Notes
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