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Oscar Jelley

Amateur lit-crit and other nonsense.

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FACILE MALEVOLENCE

Although I ploughed through The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow and Inherent Vice with great enthusiasm (and little comprehension) at the age of fifteen, I haven’t returned to the world of Thomas Pynchon since, so I suspect that my memb...

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NOTHING PERSONAL

The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil’s colossal fragment, has one of the most perfect openings of any novel I’ve read - up there with Bleak House, The Girls of Slender Means and The Trial. By conventional standards, though, it’s odd, alm...

3 months ago
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THOMAS BERNHARD: VERSTÖRUNG (1967)

I find it difficult to identify my ‘favourite’ Thomas Bernhard book, since every one that I’ve read more or less conforms to the same antic pattern: an embittered Austrian intellectual rails mesmerically against the evils of modern culture,...

6 months ago
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OWEN HATHERLEY - THE ALIENATION EFFECT (2025)

Owen Hatherley, political aesthete, has always been an admirably eclectic enthusiast. In his inaugural 2009 polemic Militant Modernism, he weighed in on Constructivist architecture, Brechtian cinema and Wilhelm Reich’s Sex-Pol, as part of a...

a year ago
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SALLY ROONEY

Sally Rooney is a name to conjure with. Sally Rooney emerges from untold mouths. Sally Rooney was last sighted in the Panama Canal but can be in many places at once. Sally Rooney lurks in the eldritch atmospheres that thrive in tram station...

2 years ago
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