Rita Horanyi
Rita Horanyi is an emerging literary critic with an interest in literary modernism and modernity, theories of affect and melancholia, and translation studies. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and was a recipient of the Copyright Agency/Sydney Review of Books emerging critics fellowship. She is currently Newsletter Editor/Social Media Manager for Asymptote journal and is an affiliate member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. She has published essays and books reviews in Sydney Review of Books, Imprint, and Hungarian Literature Online.
All essays by Rita Horanyi
The Crumbling Tower
I suppose my ambivalence about scholarship actually comes down to a fear that, not only will I spend my life in scholarly pursuits rather than living it, as if living were an uncomplicated thing one does instinctively and without thought, but that I will spend it, like the protagonist of John Banville’s The Sea, with myself unsaid.
