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Leland de la Durantaye is Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. His books include Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov and Beckett’s Art of Mismaking.
Philosopher Giorgio Agamben grapples with a humanity that has no work it must do.
Eugenides’s novel The Marriage Plot is about becoming an adult, about moving, marrying, and making mistakes.
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