The Fatal Paradox

Disillusioned revolutionary and one-time socialist mayoral candidate based in the South Island of New Zealand with a penchant for medieval history, poetry and Latin American cinema. Currently I’m a postgrad student writing a dissertation on the political and literary rivalry between the Chilean poets Vicente Huidobro and Pablo Neruda while also working part-time as a library assistant.

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The Fatal Paradox

• Sino y signo

• More memories of Soria...

• Vázquez Montalbán and the case against rationalism in philosophy and art

• The poetics of language

• Antonio Machado and the uses of Spanish history

• Of festivals, saints and the aesthetic appeal of the irrational

• Something to go to in Auckland

• More random thoughts from the road

• Roberto Bolaño: the enfant terrible of Chilean letters

• Ferrater Mora on Unamuno's Philosophy of Tragedy