In One of These Summers: A Short Story by Amir Hassan Cheheltan
Amir Hassan Cheheltan: In One of These Summers [A Short Story] As long as he was in the house, he was depressed. When he went out on the street, it was time to worry. An endless anxiety that sometimes became so strong that he wished it would burst from his throat. Fariborz was just an […]
Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day: A Deleuzian Reading of Pynchon’s Language
This study examines Thomas Pynchon’s mammoth novel Against the Day in terms of the minor practice of language as proposed by Deleuze and Guattari in their book Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, which opens up new possibilities for literary criticism. With his idiosyncratic, intense and inventive practice of language, Pynchon shatters pre-existing notions of appropriate […]