It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences …

The contemporary world is being pulled apart by two contrary tendencies - one toward social death, one toward the birth of a new society. Many of the phenomena…