A Farewell to Café Hemingway

John Crutchfield explores the philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s concept of “felicitous space” in an essay that appeared in the final edition of the online journal berfrois, in December, 2022.

Part memoir, part cultural anthropology, part eulogy for a particular cafe, on Gutenberg Square in Karlsruhe, Germany, that for a brief time offered the author a space to love.

To read the full essay, click here.