¿Qué tienen Kafka, Virginia Woolf y Borges que no tienen Philip Roth, Irène Némirovsky ni Julian Barnes? ¿En qué momento y por qué los escritores optaron por eludir el desafío de la modernidad? ¿Cuándo...

La tradición literaria inglesa nos ha legado una profunda obra crítica, que en muchos sentidos logra cautivarnos del mismo modo que su ficción. Por su camino han transitado escritores tan disímiles como...

¿Qué tienen Kafka, Virginia Woolf y Borges que no tienen Philip Roth, IrèneNémirovsky ni Julian Barnes? ¿En qué momento y por qué los escritores optaronpor eludir el desafío de la modernidad? ¿Cuándo...

When in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred days,...

Dans une maison du Nord de Londres, Helena s'attelle à écrire un livre sur l'artiste américain Joseph Cornell tout en s'interrogeant sur sa sœur Alice, qui travaille dans un orphelinat en Tchétchénie....

« Le piano n’est pas un instrument pour jeunes filles, Massimo, c’est un instrument pour gorilles. Seul un gorille a la force d’attaquer un piano comme il devrait être attaqué, défier le piano comme il...

Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019.Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2018.Gabriel Josipovici's The Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac mode, advances...

The novelist Gabriel Josipovici's new book of essays ranges from writings on the Bible, Shakespeare, Kafka, Borges and the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld to considerations of Rembrandt's self-portraits,...

"The piano is not an instrument for young ladies Massimo, he said, it is an instrument for gorillas. Only a gorilla has the strength to attack the piano as it should be attacked, only a gorilla has the...

Gabriel Josipovici's stories play hide and seek with the reader. Whether they take place in a seedy London nightclub in the sixties, in a brothel in Hamburg during the First World War, in the fevered...

In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and thinks...

We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift...

'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered...

PartitaFiction and non-fiction are two sides of the same coin. Or are they? Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. But who is the woman dead in the bathtub? And why does...