"Dream is a second life"
Grossman, Hugo, Zagajewski, Kafka, Battin, Lispector, Nerval
Allen Grossman:
Richard Hugo:
Adam Zagajewski (trans. Renata Gorczynski):
Franz Kafka, Feb. 18, 1913:
I am driven by this feeling of anxiety in the midst of my lethargy, and I write, or fear I may at any moment write, irresponsible things. The wrong sentences lie in wait about my pen, twine themselves around its point, and we are dragged along into the letters.
Wendy Battin:
Clarice Lispector (trans. Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz):
Gérard de Nerval (trans. Richard Sieburth):
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