Paulo Barras, Viradouro’s creative director, justifies the float depicting the Holocaust proposed for this year’s Carnival in Rio, saying that in many European countries neo-Nazism is on the rise. The float, an “extremely serious” and “very respectful” work, according to Mr. Barras, is intended as a timely reminder.

– drawing by Franz Kafka One theme suggested for the installation that goes with study is the wall with the door that becomes a curtain which becomes a screen so that there is really no way out and yet the image is one of leaving. You might say you have to

A man who can’t be persuaded is a frightened man. – Albert Camus

– Francis Bacon, Tryptych 1944-1988

Deleuze’s work on literature … has nothing to do with textual criticism or commentary, deconstructive or otherwise, since what matters is only what can be created, experimented or lived through the text, on the assumption that ‘a text is nothing but a cog in a larger extra-textual practice’ (DI [Desert