Antipodes

Umberto Eco , born on 5 January 1932, was a distinguished Italian linguist, specializing in semiotics. and a successful novelist, author...

As a young man in Paris, I was impressed by this book by a great Spanish writer, which I used to read in an elegant English translation. The...

Over the last couple of decades, it was hard for a former fan such as me to believe that the goddam old guy still actually existed somewhere...

My article of 25 December 2006 entitled The meaning of life [ display ] was designed deliberately to be misunderstood. All I really wanted...

Before rushing to sit down for a meal such as last Saturday's annual lunch for the senior citizens of Choranche and Châtelus, I like to ...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've got back in contact with one of my earliest passions: the literature of Rilke . I discovered this po...

Exactly half a century ago [when I had just started science and philosophy studies at Sydney University, and was about to meet up with compu...

Today, throughout the world, admirers of James Joyce are celebrating the 104th occurrence of Bloomsday . The initial day, 16 June 1904, was...

When I was a child, I was terribly marked [in an interior way, because I've never mentioned this anecdote up until today] by an image of...