Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literature British and Irish The proceedings of that conference

The proceedings of that conference

Like a character out of Faulkner's decayed south

Tales from Island Street and Sturenburg Stories

— Norman Manéa

Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literature British and Irish The proceedings of that conferenceWhat can be said about the silence that precedes a poem or story? What myths have been invented to explain the transition from "nothing" to work of art? And when did the "account of composition" turn into a literary genre of its own? These questions are at the heart of Pablo M. Ruiz's excursion into the center(s) of literary creativity. What can be said about the silence that precedes a poem or story? What myths have been invented to explain the