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Marko Gluhaich

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When Fiedler engages the Death-half of his text (more a sprinkling than a defined section), he is at his most revelatory—because, perhaps unwittingly, he eschews his burdensome archetypes. Love finds us in the wake of “Huck Honey” and contains the book’s most enduring concepts, but Death treats the historical contexts of Fiedler’s subjects and stumbles upon unfortunately evergreen insights about an American condition, what David Graeber described twenty years ago as “the boring, humdrum, yet omnipresent forms of structural violence that define the very conditions of our existence, the subtle or not-so-subtle threats of physical force that lie behind everything from enforcing rules about where one is allowed to sit or stand or eat or drink in parks or other public places.” Huck—and by extension his creator—is submerged in this violence, a “marginal American type, who only wants to stay alive.” Huck Finn may be a dream, Fiedler notes, but it is a nightmare.
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Marko Gluhaich (@markogluhaich), Having a Bust with the Boys: On Leslie A. Fielder’s “Love and Death in the American Novel”
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Leslie A. Fiedler | Love and Death in the American Novel | NYRB Classics | April 2026 | 512 Pages by @markogluhaich

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Marko Gluhaich reviews Paul Celan’s collected prose, Conversation in the Mountains, translated from the German by Rosemarie Waldrop.

“One of the benefits of Conversation in the Mountains is that the majority of its texts were written during a narrow period from 1958 to 1961—aligning with the height of Celan’s recognition and the composition of his 1963 collection The No-One’s Rose. This makes it tempting to consider the collection something of a lodestar.”

—Marko Gluhaich @markogluhaich

Read the full review via the link in bio.

Conversations in the Mountains
by Paul Celan
Translated from the German by Rosemarie Waldrop
New Directions @ndpublishing
80pp by @markogluhaich

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For @friezeofficial I reviewed the Giardini main exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale. Read more at the link in bio. by @markogluhaich

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taken in New York City, N.Y. by @markogluhaich

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taken in Brooklyn, New York by @markogluhaich

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