A completely unknown Nicolás Gómez Dávila appeared and crushed everyone.

Dávila is astonishing aphorist. He is known for his “scholia”, which are short aphoristic statements on a wide range of topics – art, politics, philosophy, religion, history, and humanity overall. It is estimated that he written around 10,000 of these “scholia”‘s.

But what I love most about him is his biograpny: a perpetually ailing self-taught man, he amassed a home library of over 30,000 volumes and wrote notes mainly for friends. Davila’s aphoristic style most closely resembles Cioran’s, particularly in the categorical nature of his judgments and his contrived assertiveness, which is accompanied by an astonishing softness and indecision.

This is high-caliber political theology. In short, this is something you cannot miss; it is the discovery of the decade.

Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture.

A reader's limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sensibility.

April 2015