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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

Tor Ulven gave this interview, his last, a year and a half before he died, leaving behind a language that had never been seen before; a literature unheard The interview was done in collaboration with Cecilie Schram Hoel of Vagant over the course of an evening and night at the author’s home in Årvoll in Oslo We were greeted by a positive and friendly 40-year-old, who shared with us his knowledge as well as his illusion-free outlook on life After the fruits of our discussion were written up and edited, he received the demanding interview on a floppy disk and produced the final version himself   A poet and short prose writer, Tor Ulven (1953-1995) was a bright thinker who conveyed obscure ideas He also served as the criterion for a string of writers who first gained visibility in the mid-1980s In addition, he was one of the most successful essayists of his generation, whether his subject was literature, philosophy, music, or the visual arts In his essay ‘Side Notes on Leopardi’s Timelessness’ he puts it this way:   Art is and always will be the bait in a squirrel cage It can never satisfy that insatiable desire But neither can life … The secret of art perhaps lies partly in the fact that it reminds us, without us really knowing it, of the impossibility of satisfying that endless need, and that in this very impossibility there aches a bitter joy: we are severed from all that we could have had or could have been, yet we can still imagine it We know that we cannot step foot into that beautifully painted landscape and stay there   Nor can we step inside Tor Ulven’s world and remain there His writing – and here, his speech – is, then, rather a kind of antidote, an antibody against a false sense of comfort and simple solutions ‘There is no rest to be found through him,’ remarked one of his closest friends, writer Ole Robert Sunde in his speech at Ulven’s fortieth birthday, ‘and I could have imagined a higher degree of sensitivity, as if he has a

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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July 2013

univers, univers

Régis Jauffret

TR. Jeffrey Zuckerman

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July 2013

I. You remember your childhood. Your tow-headed, reddish-tinged mother, who yelled after you all day like a Paraguayan peasant...

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January 2014

Son of Man

Yi Mun-yol

TR. Brother Anthony of Taizé

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January 2014

Rain falling onto thick layers of accumulated dust had left the windows of the criminal investigations office so mottled...

Prize Entry

April 2015

Every Woman to the Rope

Joanna Quinn

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April 2015

My father believed the sea to be covetous: a pleading dog that would lap at you adoringly, sidling up...

 

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