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Tag: Racine

Brief Essays

250. (Jean Racine)

I write as a novice, an initiate into Racine’s imaginative world, and I enter with just enough French to feel how ill-suited it is for the temperament of my Anglo-expectations. I have, for quite a long time, known the two obvious things to say about Racine, but only recently started to work out why they matter, and how they can explain the difference of Racine … Continue reading 250. (Jean Racine)

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