dylanberman's reviews
37 reviews

The story of Beowulf and a lot of the writing here is dramatic and compelling. That being said I want to read another translation because I found some aspects of modern slang incorporated by Headley jarring. Overall it was  inconsistent in tone and feel, and whatever intent of Headley’s to draw attention to masculinity in the text wasn’t interesting enough to justify what was a poor choice aesthetically and artistically. 

Through Adorno’s endlessly perceptive, dense, and intelligent negativity towards the state of things, the reader finds dangers to resist, values, now denigrated or lost completely, to strive for. 
“To gain such perspectives without velleity or violence, entirely from felt contact with its objects-this alone is the task of thought. It is the simplest of all things, because the situation calls imperatively for such knowledge, indeed because consummate negativity, once squarely faced, delineates the mirror image of its opposite” (pg 263).

Most beautiful writing ever