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Mark de Silva

holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Having served for several years on the editorial staff of the New York Times's opinion pages, he now freelances for the paper's Sunday magazine. His writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, The Paris Review Daily, and the New York Times.

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On the Skin of the World

By Mark de SilvaNovember 15, 2011
(image via) On From the Observatory by Julio Cortázar (Archipelago Books) By Mark de Silva Julio Cortázar’s fiction is dominated by questions of knowledge: what it consists in,…
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