Click Here to Read:  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity By Donald Moss, Reviewed by David Kennedy on the Times Register Education website on June 28, 2012.

Click here to read David Rieff’s review of The Patagonian Hare, “A Vast Choir of Voices: On Claude Lanzmann,” from the July 2-9, 2012 edition of The Nation.

In an earlier post, Arnie Richards and I reviewed Claude Lanzmann’s memoir, this writer who also produced the nine-hour Shoah, a landmark film for the twentieth century. Click here to read said post, “This Justifies a Life: Lanzmann’s Memoir and Yom HaShoah by Nathan Szajnberg.”

David Rieff reviews this book in the Nation.  His review reads like the recipe for how one need prepare venison: first you have to eviscerate it, then you can enjoy the steak. He begins by gutting Lanzmann: “Even the most passionate of lifelong romances tend to cool with time. But… Lanzmann’s … self-involvement seems only to have risen with the passing decades.”  Rieff identifies a style of French writing (not found among French scientists; moreso amongst essayists and such) as a “confederacy of braggarts.”  Not to be found in the gaggle of penman traits such as irony, self-effacement or stoicism. Witness Sartre. Or Beauvoir, his (Sartre’s and Lanzmann’s) lover.

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