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On the occasion of the upcoming English translation of László Krasznahorkai's novel Herscht 07769, I recorded a video in which I talk about my personal reading of his books including his core themes and recurring motifs. Hope is a mistake. youtu.be/t42pqvezOk4
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Happy End of Anniversaries to those who celebrate!
August 20, 1968 "Last and Final" One year and 1.900 pages later, the journey of reading Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries (Jahrestage) day for day is over. Whatever people mean by "maximalist," this one sure is. A masterpiece.
August 20, 1968 "Last and Final" One year and 1.900 pages later, the journey of reading Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries (Jahrestage) day for day is over. Whatever people mean by "maximalist," this one sure is. A masterpiece.
Who's fixing to start reading Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries starting on August 21, the day on which the book begins?
The impact that Religion and Nothingness by Keiji Nishitani had on me through all the re-reads has been unmatched, and not just because it introduced me to Dōgen Zenji and Meister Eckhart.
Antidote: tell me about the work of theory or philosophy that gave you something essential, that made living possible in a dark hour or illuminated the scaffolding of the world, tell me about a book that isn’t a social accessory for status but is a love, became part of you.
Possible reading plan for next year: "A historical novel about things that never happened and won't happen," apparently an early 21st century political manifesto qua postmodern sci-fi zombie doorstopper. Blurbs sound interesting, to say the least
10 books to get to know me
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With Erpenbeck winning the Booker Prize and Jelinek, Bachmann, Haushofer, Fritz seemingly receiving more recognition lately, here are 4 more picks for women in translation month by German-speaking writers
"Determined to reshape the world according to the dictates of desire" Now reading
"Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. No birds. Frail from the housetops two plumes of smoke ascended, pluming, and in a flaw of softness softly were blown."
Why did I wait so long to read Wolfgang Hilbig? A gritty, dark and muddy prose, very tactile. "That afternoon the leaden hue of the sky merged on all sides with the vapors that rose from the freezing sheets of water at the bottoms of the mine pits." (transl. Isabel Fargo Cole)
"It follows [...] that the ideas, which we have of external bodies, indicate rather the constitution of our own body than the nature of external bodies." - Spinoza, Ethics part II, proposition 16, corollary 2
Current ick: men presumably under 35 reading books on the subway or in public.
"It is as if I could dip my hand down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country" - Anne Carson (The Glass Essay)
"Godless, abandoned, stridently military structures of unknown purpose, assembled as if out of broken laminae by a deranged mind. [...] The catastrophe is always ongoing, it never appears in its entirety, but always manifests in part." Krasznahorkai on architect Lebbeus Woods
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