Mirror Gazing Russian Literature

Mirror Gazing Russian LiteratureMirror Gazing is a book about reading and looking, about what people seek when they read, and about what stares back at them from the printed page. It is an archival project, based on a wealth of material collected daily by celebrated critic Warren F. Motte over thirty five years and squirreled away for some eventual winter. It is also a love letter, a confession, a tale of deep obsession, and a cry for help addressed to anyone who takes literature

It is Germany near the end of World War II

In the course of one long day and evening

And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides

"A book describes works conceived of but not realized by its author

might they not welcome the chance to see their remaining child live forever

” — Publishers Weekly

And this is why

surreal noir

and no such protocol exists for J

without ever becoming sentimental or clichéd

’” —3:AM Magazine

March Hares collects thirty years of Aidan Higgins’s essays