Toril Moi

witty!

Jeg skal også holde et foredrag om Beauvoir på Nasjonalbiblioteket klokken 18 torsdag 7. mai. Det er gratis adgang og åpent for alle. Jeg hører at det for tiden er fullt, men jeg tror de kommer til å strømme seansen. nb.no/hva-skjer/tori…

Jeg skal være med på fagseminar om Simone de Beauvoir på Nasjonalbiblioteket i Oslo tirsdag 5. mai. Strålende deltakerliste! Jeg skal holde innledningsforedrag om Beauvoirs syn på valg, frihet og ansvar. nb.no/hva-skjer/simo…

@helendewitt Dear Helen, How WONDERFUL! You so deserve this. I hope it gives you peace of mind, and a space to let your creativity flourish in the only way it can -- freely.

I am delighted and more honored than I can possibly say - the Emergent Ventures program at the Mercatus Center has offered me a grant of $175,000 with no requirements of any kind in the way of publicity, attendance at meetings, or anything else.

@aslaknore Pas mal, cher Aslak!

Metroen i Paris. Stort for en liten gutt fra Oslo Nord #lifegoal

@John_Attridge i discuss the idealist aesthetics of the early Nobel prizes over a few pages in my book henrik ibsen and the birth of modernism. the underlying idea is that lit should uplift us beyond the sordid materiality of the world. so no prize for Ibsen.

It used to literally be a sign of worthiness for a prize that a writer was unworldly. In c. 1905 Edmund Gosse, J.H. Newbolt and others campaigned for Joseph Conrad to receive a government grant partly on this basis. Strange that this logic now seems so foreign

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent. Samuel Beckett, Endgame

@profdgd In the 19th century: Strindberg's The Father -- a man spiraling into madness because he has come to doubt that his child is actually his. (Response to Ibsen's Wild Duck) Also about infernal power struggle between men and women (as seen by the antifeminist Strindberg...)

The reading list for next semester's Literature of Mental Illness course. I feel like I'm missing a book of poems or another play. Suggestions?

@theiaincameron go to holden - Wittgenstein did! you can then go and see the (reconstructed) cabin he built there.

Not many villages that are more than 200km from the open sea are able to boast sunbathing by the sea in summer… /END

The small Norwegian village of Skjolden (pop: 238) looks absolutely unremarkable on a map. Little more than a small settlement in inland Norway, surrounded by pretty mountains. However, and remarkably, Skjolden is actually a seaside village. 1/n

@Kierkegaarddd Different books at different ages (ages are just approximations): at 15: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex. at 25: Julia Kristeva, Révolution du langage poétique at 35: Pierre Bourdieu, La Distinction at 45: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

@gregorymconway it’s completely compelling, absorbing — a deep reflection on history - the account of the clash between Kristin and her father’s bourgeois values as against erlend’s feudal ones), a novel of love and marriage, of faith, and death - complete existential - and unmodernist too.

@TorilMoi Oh, Undset is a great suggestion and exactly what I should read!

It’s time for the first tome of 2026, what should I read next that’s say… 750+ pages. Or any other suggestions.

@DmpPatterson actually, my current long-term research topic is precisely the question of the new. And I am one (of many) speakers. So now i also have to try to tell myself something new...

@TorilMoi I hope you hear something new

Register for the Jameson conference at Duke April 10-12! "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory." Click here for the registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

witty and true to life

@DmpPatterson oh. well it depends on what the speakers actually say, i think

@TorilMoi I meant that perhaps this theme has played itself out. No need to recycle

@DmpPatterson not sure what that means? - but the new always emerges from the old

@TorilMoi This is so, 90s?

@SimlaDogangun there’s an email address in the link - write to the organizers to ask?

@TorilMoi Very exciting! I wonder whether online attendance is an option?

@oznurkarakas there’s an email address in the link - write to the organizers and ask?

Hoping online attendance will be available.

I'll be traveling for the first time in a long time! Looking forward to speaking and listening at the Modes of Reading Symposium at Berkeley on Thursday and Friday this week! townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/close-d…