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A poem has the shape of possibility.

A novel has the shape of a life.

Winter

Roses help me.

The calm of a splintered light...


(reading Tove Jansson)

List: Kafka's Legatees

1. Maurice Blanchot (liminalism)
2. Jose Saramago (literalism)
3. Ismal Kadare (ambiguity)
4. Thomas Bernhard (endlessness)
5. Peter Handke (namelessness)

Special Mention:
Magnus Mills (failure)

(reading Roberto Calasso)