The inaugural lecture of the
CTTR is by Prof Jan Borm, an über-academic: German, Chair of English Literature at a French university, giving us a tour d'horizon of Arctic studies in German, English, French, Russian, Danish, East Siberian, Czech and Inuit cultures, taking in Foucault, Rousseau and everything in between, delivered with panache.
OK, I have an academic crush. And after the warm white wine, I'm going to break into my quarantined office to (as Faustus puts it) 'burn my books'.
Author to look up: Jean Malaurie. One of his four volumes of autobiography about his 32 Arctic journeys,
Hummocks, is available in English and sounds fascinating.
mmm, so the vole is taking up necromancy? It was inevitable at some stage.
ReplyDeleteI have to share my authentic Icelandic lullaby with the world. It's from W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice's Letters From Iceland (1937):
ReplyDeleteSleep, you black-eyed pig.
Fall into a deep pit full of ghosts.