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Adam Thirlwell · Luxury Muzhik

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By Adam Thirlwell
| London Review of Books Verified
In a library​ when I was young I came across a book published by the Hogarth Press. It was so delicate I hardly wanted to touch it. It had a mottled green cover, it was maybe seventy pages long, and I read it in one amazed hour. The book was Maxim Gorky’s Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi, from 1920, which the Woolfs would later republish in a fuller volume, with two more of Gorky’s reminiscences: of Chekhov and the less world-famous Leonid Andreyev.
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Enrique Vila-Matas, The Art of Fiction No. 247

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By Adam Thirlwell
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Interviewed by Adam Thirlwell Photo © Olivier Roller (detail); Manuscript image courtesy of Galaxia Gutenberg The writing of Enrique Vila-Matas is marked by a dazzling array of quotation, plagiarism, frames, self-plagiarism, digressions and meta-digressions: an intense and witty textual delirium that has made him one of the most original and celebrated writers in the Spanish language. Born in Barcelona in 1948, he published his first novel—a single, sternly uninterrupted sentence—in 1973.
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When and Where Is Home? | Adam Thirlwell

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By Adam Thirlwell
| New York Review of Books Verified
In a single large room at Tate Modern the South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is having his first major exhibition in a British museum. It has the feel of a condensed retrospective, however, partly because he has been so faithful to his obsessions that many of the pieces specifically made for it are also elements in an ongoing series. I went with my ten-year-old daughter, and as always when seeing a museum show, the surrounding experience seeped into the general impression.
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