Hedley Twidle was born in Johannesburg. He studied in KwaZulu-Natal, then at Oxford and York, and lived for several years in Edinburgh before taking up a post as lecturer in English at the University of Cape Town. Between 2007 and 2012, Twidle worked on the Cambridge History of South African Literature, published in 2012.
Hedley Twidle
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Don’t Say “Etc.”: Lost and Found in the Work of Ivan Vladislavic
In a piece titled “Practical exercises,” Georges Perec gives some instructions on how to set down a city street in words: Note down what you can see. … Don’t say, don’t write “etc.” Make an effort to exhaust the subject, even if that seems grotesque, or pointless, or stupid. You still haven’t looked at anything, […]
