Soccer is a sport perfectly designed to reinforce a tragic view of the universe, because basically it is a long series of frustrations leading up to near certain heartbreak.
Tag: tragedy
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David Foster Wallace reads Laughing with Kafka, which was later published in Consider the Lobster. Other speakers at the Metamorphosis: A New Kafka symposium included Paul Auster, E.L. Doctorow, Susan Sontag, and David Remnick. (via bibliokept)
“The Gangster as Tragic Hero” – Robert Warshow on the Gangster Film
A notable selection from American Movie Critics: From the Silents Until Now, which I’m working my way through this week.
“The Gangster as Tragic Hero” – Robert Warshow on the Gangster Film