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24 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
“Basically, the head of the Michigan State University Press’s series — when they approached me and asked me to think of an idea for writing about René, I noted that there had never been anything weaving together the life and the work, so the only reason that it happened is because I did it.”
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- 24 Aug 2022
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…Why do you think no tenured academic wrote a comparable biography of Girard? Who, in a way, is not such a controversial figure, right? He’s becoming more and more mainstream, but it’s taken a long while for that to happen. He was in academia, but not of academia, in a lot of ways. Basically, the head of the Michigan State University Press’s series — when they approached me and asked me to think of an idea for writing about René, I noted that there had never been anything weaving together the life and the work, so the only reason that it happened is because I did it. I think that it was the core conformist thing. Nobody wanted to stick their heads out. People wanted to hold him at a distance. What do you think of the current Silicon Valley infatuation with Girard?…
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