Benjamin and Brecht: Attrition in friendship

Andrew McGettigan ~ RP 161 (May/Jun 2010) ~ Extras

Andrew McGettigen on Benjamin and Brecht's games of chess.

It was better not to know: Chess News

Peter Buse ~ RP 163 (Sep/Oct 2010) ~ Extras

Chess news It was better not to know What have we learnt from Andrew McGettigan’s reconstruction (in RP 161) of the photographed Svendborg chess match? In a nutshell, that Brecht played bad moves and Benjamin failed to take advantage. For those of us who have long cherished the idea of these two playing matches of […]

Who Was Oscar Masotta? Response to Derbyshire: Letter

Daniel R. Quiles ~ RP 164 (Nov/Dec 2010), p. 60 ~ Extras

Philip Derbyshire (‘Who Was Oscar Masotta? Psychoanalysis in Argentina’, RP 158) should be commended for his insightful consideration of the literary and psychoanalytic writings of Oscar Masotta, one of the most important Argentine intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. I would like to make a case for juxtaposing these texts with Masotta’s idiosyncratic and interdisciplinary […]