Leland de la Durantaye

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.

To Be and to Do

The life’s work of Giorgio Agamben.

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Style Over Substance

On translating Proust.

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Do the Right Thing

On Italo Calvino’s letters, 1941–1985.

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Where Love Grows

Eugenides’s novel The Marriage Plot is about becoming an adult, about moving, marrying, and making mistakes.

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How to be Happy

The ethics of David Foster Wallace.

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Last Wishes

On Nabokov’s Novel in Fragments.

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