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well-timed to start planning my next year's journey : handpicking Ulysses from around the world. I’ve already picked two countries: 🇨🇺🇩🇪— any suggestions?
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Perhaps the most whimsical and phantasmagoric short-story writer I’ve read recently since Borges and J.G. Ballard
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To my knowledge, only Borges could have written such a short, spellbinding and hypnotic story
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finally found the right wing for my Grotesque reading Triptych 👹👀
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Now it's time to use the Penguin Cover Generator until this anthology is released (October 2024)
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while reading JK Huysmans’ occult novel The Damned I discovered the fever-ridden drawings of Odilon Redon—as enthralling as they are disquieting 🪬
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finished this unhinged Chilean novel and finally unlocked a new nightmare filled with anarchic grotesque creatures ensnared in a jigsaw puzzle of horrors—gathered by a drove of whining crones 🏚️ a must read!
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Peter Weiss depicting Brueghel’s paintings
What are your favorite descriptions of a painting in a novel?
This Wallace Stegner description of Piero della Francesca’s The Resurrection is up there for me.
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“Do you know what happens to people in cities? I’ll tell you what happens to people in cities.”
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After 1 month, 2 reading guides and several Joycean websites, I completed an outlandish linguistic journey: I’ve finally read James Joyce’s Ulysses 🎉🌊
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Peter Weiss’ The Aesthetics of Resistance : a chaotic thread
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One of the unintended effects of reading the Dictionary of the Khazars for three hours per day is getting a topsy-turvy mind, utterly engrossed with a book that could have been written in either the 1st or 300th centuries of our era 🪬
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read one of Ligotti's supernatural horror stories for the first time; still haunted by The Frolic—such an uncanny/freaky one! dreadful stories always rise from the mundanest backdrop 🏡
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Just finished the first chapter of Gaddis’s The Recognitions. Wistful, medieval, filled with lyric theology—and above all, Boschian like no other novel I’ve previously read
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Currently flabbergasted by this Krasznahorkai’s one-sentence-long novel. Apocalyptic as wildly funny, a meditative experience written “in the process of collapsing” 🏤 (stay tuned for a forthcoming thread 👀)
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what kind of delirious maze am I once again entangled in? 🐦⬛
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@EugenieBastie
« Pourquoi est-ce qu’on peut jouer du Schubert le soir et aller faire son devoir au camp de concentration le matin ? Ni la grande lecture, ni la musique, ni l’art n’ont pu empêcher la barbarie totale. »
George Steiner, Barbarie de l’ignorance, 1998
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why wasn't I warned earlier that this novel contained such a visceral and mesmerizing soliloquy? pure magnetism of a descent into madness 🪬
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finally started reading this cactus-shaped linguistic meteor 👀🌵
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Just achieved my first linear reading of the Dictionary of Khazars. Is this book really written by a human? I’m unable to say—but I’m pretty sure that now my dreams about it will be tentacle-shaped, tangled as Khazars’ dictionary blind alleys and twisted stairs. 🕸️
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One day before boarding on James Joyce’s Ulysses, it’s well-timed for a quartet of monstrous and mesmerizing novels I’ve read this year 👹
What’s yours?
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now finished; shaped like a black Caduceus this novel intertwined two stories: that of the mild-mannered Gilles de Rais and a kind of Breviary of fin-de-siècle Paris: hodgepodge of occult societies, devil worshipers, mystic circus of incubus/succubus, devilish Black Mass 👹
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is there a better feeling than receiving such a surreal First Edition that you forgot you'd ordered because it took so long to deliver (10 months)? 🎺
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Thanks to the Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's The Recognitions for introducing us to this dystopian novel written by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
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It is not surprising that Kafka's The Castle is deeply engraved in Peter Weiss's historical fresco. He recalls that Brueghel's paintings adorned his first edition (this page is breathtaking)
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just read Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story from this Penguin Collection and this one fits perfectly with what i’m looking for when reading Ligotti: a kind of Borgesian speculative fiction ending in a oneiric/nightmarish purple prose 👹👀
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Today’s page from Gaddis’ The Recognitions: a blistering indictment of quasi-intellectuals like critics
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if anyone else wants to share books that changed their intellectual life, this is my ~favorite game
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I’ve read an ash-glory long poem: W.G. Sebald’s After Nature; a thread 🧵
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Just read Joyce’s short story A Painful Case: a sorrowful masterpiece, gloomily filled with Dublin’s gaunt trees, loneliness, and fading memories.
A must-read! 🍂
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Just discovered that William Blake had illustrated the Book of Job…
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finished this pretty uncanny novel; bitterest blackish forest, Austrian angst and its grotesque folks culminating in the virtuoso soliloquy of a metaphysical paranoid—who introduces us to the over-tormenting kind of melancholy 🏚️ recommended!
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Just found out it's my cleverest friend's birthday! (Born OTD in 1892)
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« L’acte le plus sublime : mettre quelqu’un plus haut que soi. »
William Blake, Proverbs of Hell in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-1793
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Let’s start the day with this magnetic opening page of Proteus (Ulysses’ third chapter)
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I've translated the only written interview given by Cristina Campo, the attentive and meticulous Italian anchorite.
« Unforgivable is, for today's world, everything that resembles Persephone's hyacinth. »
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Just finished the first seven chapters. Seven complex panels from the same dazzling exploration of the depths of painting—and its Recognitions
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Lettre à Léon Daudet
« On me reproche la cruauté systématique. Que le monde change d’âme, je changerai de forme. »
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Perhaps the most delirious, madcap, mind-boggling book I've ever read.
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“The Divina Commedia was as unsettling, as rebellious, and in form and theme apparently as remote from anything familiar as was Ulysses, which we had only just gotten to know fragmentarily, as a kind of rebus”
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this page from Thomas Bernhard’s Gargoyles reminds me of an axiom I’ve discovered in an apocalyptic Hungarian novel: ‘Catastrophe is our natural medium’ (and we're really entering into the madness of others with these two novels) 👹
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Books I wanna read before the year ends
buoyantly euphoric I am 🎺
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Just finished Ivo Andrić’s masterpiece; As Borges' Zahir changed our perception of a simple coin, this novel will change every historical bridge you come across—not only the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge. Highly recommended! 🇧🇦
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William Gaddis’ “naked city” from The Recognitions, illustrated by Brueghel the Younger’s The Crucifixion
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just finished Circe section of Ulysses. Hallucinatory, surreal, nightmarish—as an unleashed mind through Dublin nightlife 🫣
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Astonished by the first depiction of Picasso's Guernica—a true inner meridian in Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance
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Two novels spanning 400 years—not surprising that only a Bridge or an a
Aristocrat could do that
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now waiting a birth like the Holy Roller awaited the Apocalypse (perhaps it's the same thing in this wildly psychotic novel)
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been trapped in a polyphonic monsterful mansion: La Rinconada 🏚️
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« La poésie est beaucoup plus qu’un genre littéraire ou qu’une formule ludique : c’est la parole de l’homme convertie en création et menée à son extrémité, là où le mot de Nietzsche acquiert une force à donner le frisson : « Dis ta parole et brise-toi. ». Oui, je crois que la
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finally tuned my psychic frequency to Ligotti's Cosmic Macabre (yes, i’ve read Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror without blinking)🪬
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My copy of the Phenomenology of Spirit
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130 pages in—still strolling among eccentrics Spaniard, seedy streets, farcical debts, a fly-ridden inferno and other peculiar vignettes 🔆
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Insane depiction of Albrecht Altdorfer's painting The Battle of Alexander at Issus from W.G. Sebald’s magnificent triptych:
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« Quelle chimère est-ce donc que l'homme ? Quelle nouveauté, quel monstre, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradictions, quel prodige ? Juge de toutes choses, imbécile vers de terre, dépositaire du vrai, cloaque
d'incertitude et d'erreur, gloire et rebus de l'univers. »
Pascal, 122
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« L'homme accomplit, engendre, tellement plus qu'il ne peut, ou ne devrait, supporter. C'est ainsi qu'il s'aperçoit qu'il peut supporter n'importe quoi. C'est cela. C'est cela qui est terrible, le fait qu'il peut supporter n'importe quoi, n'importe quoi. »
Light in August, 1932
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Reading Peter Weiss' Aesthetics of Resistance under the watchful eyes of
Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee’s “Angel of History”
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I've translated a few pages from Antonio Moresco's chaosmotic novel : Songs of Chaos
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let’s introduce Donoso’s Ship of Theseus from this jigsaw puzzle of terrors: the paradox of the endless organ transplant (or the Imbuche’s/Mudito’s paradox)
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Nothing like the way Peter Weiss depicted Brueghel’s paintings.
And now, we paid attention to the “farm laborers, the draymen and porters, the woodcutters and castle whackers, the craftsmen and peasants [who built] the tremendous structure of the Tower of Babel”
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« Florence, 22 janvier 1817. — Avant hier, en descendant l’Apennin pour arriver à Florence, mon cœur battait avec force. Quel enfantillage ! Enfin, à un détour de la route, mon œil a plongé dans la plaine, et j’ai aperçu de loin, comme une masse sombre, Santa Maria del Fiore et
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Cristina Campo on Borges (still untranslated) :
« Borges has few themes and even few symbols;[…] : the labyrinth, the mirror, the city, the garden, the atlas, writing. One sacred objet summarizes them : it’s the synthesis of synthesis, deeply concentrated — the mandala. »
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Just discovered these artful etchings from Francisco Goya’s The Disasters of War; thanks to Peter Weiss’ imagined museum
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Don Quixote in every nook and cranny—even during the Spanish Civil War.(Illustrated by Doré and Picasso)
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(Houellebecq)
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Virginia Woolf sur Shakespeare dans son Journal, Tome IV, 13 avril 1930.
« Me croyant à égalité au départ, je le vois ensuite me dépasser et accomplir des prouesses… »
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“I can tell you exclusively that, in the City of the Dead, Dante lives on the ninth floor of a suburban apartment building, in the company of a flaming paper ballerina. “A flaming paper ballerina?" some of you may wonder. Yes, that's right! Now I'll tell you."
Antonio Moresco
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Philippe Jaccottet, notre ressemeleur qui nous rappelle l’essence intime de la poésie (1974)
« Pour entrer dans l'obscurité prends ce miroir où s'éteint un glacial incendie »
À la lumière d'hiver, 1977
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Reminiscing about T.S. Eliot while reading this phenomenal page from William Gaddis’s masterpiece (chapter 3).A true post-modern iconographist.
(Illustrated by Robert Campin’s Mérode Altarpiece)
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I hope you’ll enjoy reading these pages from Antonio Moresco’s Canti del caos.
Purely chaosmotic and unlike anything you’ve previously read. 📯
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Searching for Recognition like transfenestrative readers searched for V.
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« Comment débarrasser le monde du mal, je n’en sais rien, et faut-il même le supporter, je n’en sais rien non plus. Mais tu es là et tu produis un effet qui est le tien et tes poèmes par eux-mêmes produisent de l’effet et te protègent — c’est cela, la réponse, et c’est un
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Les réponses les plus acérées que William Faulkner donna à son correspondant du
@parisreview
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« Aux gens qui ne me comprennent pas après m’avoir lu deux ou trois fois, je leur suggère de me lire une quatrième fois. »
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I've translated a few pages from Giorgio Manganelli’s weird novel : From Hell (Dall’Inferno)
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« L’abîme, nous le renierions volontiers pour nous rendre digne. Mais où que nous nous tournions il nous attire. »
Thomas Mann, La mort à Venise, 1912
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