world literature
"Pamuk offers a striking interpretation of what goes on in the novelist's mind...In Pamuk's theory, the writing and reading of novels is one of humanity's great acts of optimism. This is what is meant by novelists and readers identifying with characters. To an extent that few other novelists can match, Pamuk is both a naive and sentimental novelist--and he desires readers who are the same way."
--Anis Shivani (Austin American-Statesman 20101211)
Pamuk, Orhan
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Harvard Press, 2010
Turk. Lit., 894.353 P186n
Plato
The Last Days of Socrates
Classic Books, 2010
Class. Gr. Lit., 888 P718La
philosophy
"In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument." -publisher
Wallace, David Foster
Fate, Time, and Language: an essay on free will
Columbia, 2011
Ph.., 123 W188f