Wert and the Life Without End Coleman Dowell British Literature and wishing to become as

and wishing to become as inert as a stone

Four Cold Chapters on the Possibility of Literatures considers Jorge Luis Borges

From the appearance in 1956 of The Floating Opera

His writing has been translated into French

and our own petty ambitions—be they professional or amorous

Wert and the Life Without End Coleman Dowell British Literature and wishing to become asby Claude Ollier Translated by Ursula Meany Scott Publication date: 07 05 2011 ISBN: 9781564786265 In some kind of institution, maybe a hospital or rehabilitation center, we are introduced to Wert, a disturbed, traumatized man still suffering the horrors of his experience as a soldier fighting in an unidentified conflict. A patient or prisoner, Wert writes down his memories of the war; his impressions of his current, ill defined treatment; and his