re-cover nr.68

La Condition Postmoderne - Jean-François Lyotard

This photo was taken in Aveiro in 2008.
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher.La Condition postmoderne (The Postmodern Condition, in English) was first published in 1979.

"...is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?"

re-cover nr.66

On Love and Barley - Basho

This photo was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.

Matsuo Basho was a Japanese Haiku poet from the Edo period.
On Love and Barley was first published in English in 1985. The poems date from the second half of the 17th century.


"Departing spring -
birds cry
and in the eyes of fish, tears."

re-cover nr.65

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

This picture was taken in Amsterdam in 2009.
 
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist. Orlando was first published in 1928.
Orlando was adapted to film in 1992. The film was directed by Sally Potter, and stars Tilda Swinton as Orlando.

"She had been a gloomy boy, in love with death, ... as boys are; and then she had been amorous and florid; and then she had been sprightly and satirical; and sometimes she had tried prose and sometimes she had tried drama. Yet through all these changes she had remained, she reflected, fundamentally the same. She had the same brooding meditative temper, the same love of animals and nature, the same passion for the country and the seasons."