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“... as receipts in the US have been very small: $162,000 in 29 weeks. Who might now read Werther? Stanley Corngold and his publisher argue boldly that it’s a ‘timeless’ masterpiece: ‘it breathes, it lives,’ they say, thanks to the qualities of Corngold’s new translation. What makes a book timeless, and what ...”

“... remember that he smiled, as Brod tells us, when he made his remark about the plentitude of hope. Stanley Corngold, in an introductory essay to The Office Writings, says that Kafka’s goal or need – ‘the mandate . . . laid on him’ – was ‘to write well at some unheard of degree of proficiency or be lost’. This is beautifully put, and while ...”

“... a sort of journey into a country of the mind. In Franz Kafka: The Office Writings (2008), Stanley Corngold talks about a ‘ministry of writing’ in this context, and the double meaning (bureaucratic and pastoral) takes us a long way into Kafka’s worlds. At the end of his stay in Zürau, or just afterwards, Kafka made a selection from his ...”

“... twice, to revealing effect, in controversies over his interpretations of philosophers – with Stanley Corngold on Nietzsche’s conception of error, and with Raymond Geuss on Hegel’s understanding of art. De Man had translated Nietzsche’s remark that the world is a place where a mistake can happen and made it say instead that the world is a realm ...”

“... wouldn’t a few strategic strikes do most of what needs doing? Or in his translation, noted by Stanley Corngold, of Nietzsche’s phrase ‘error takes place’ or ‘error happens’ (‘der Irrthum stattfindet’) as ‘error reigns.’ Nothing but the worst, or the most extreme. We could also think of de Man’s rather beautiful evocation of ...”

“... account of a view that he of course rejects. It has been expressed with much indignation by Stanley Corngold and others – the holocaust, and de Man’s own past, they say, conveniently vanish – but it is dismissed, in my view correctly, as founded on a false idea of the relation between deconstruction and history, admittedly a very dark ...”