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Book Review: Humiliation
Stanisław Krawczyk Humiliation by Paulina Flores, trans. by Megan McDowell, Catapult, 2019, $16.95 paperback Reviewed by Scott Neuffer There is nothing more human than being humiliated, the feeling of being undone, when the careful constructs of the ego unravel in bewilderment. The word itself comes from the Latin “humilis,” meaning low, from “humus” or earth. It’s as though humiliation returns us to the primordial pain, clips our skyward wings, inters us once again in the m
Oct 8, 20193 min read
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