Durbar Chakrabarty

they're in love. fuck the war.

[self @avoidkoolaid]

Not really big on literary criticism myself but after reading this in a deceptively large pocket rocket, something tells me I need to read Antonio Moresco’s The Beginnings

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Tonight is more than night and more than meaning.

- Delmore Schwartz, "Poem for Jacques Maritain and Leon Trotzsky"

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

Aston Villa is delighted to announce that our 2026/27 Premier League fixtures will consist of playing each team home and away.

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“And I don’t know if you’ve realized that Bloomsday sounds like Doomsday.”

— Vila-Matas, Dublinesque

Happy Doomsday 🙃

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

Your entire filmography can only be appreciated when one is in the mood for mindless popcorn auteur films and leaves an impact on the viewers for about 15 minutes (being real generous) once they are done with the film, affecting their lives in zero conceivable way. Stfu zio POS.

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Quentin Tarantino says Stanley Kubrick was a hypocrite.

"His party line was, I’m not making a movie about violence, I’m making a movie against violence.”

“It’s just, like, Get the f**k off. I know and you know your d!ck was hard the entire time.”

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

@camtology Add Spengler's Decline of the West somewhere in the pile and you're golden.

[Nooshin Samimi نوشین صمیمی @nsamimi9]

Part of the hostility toward Marjane Satrapi is b/c she occupies an uncomfortable position for multiple audiences at once. For many Western readers she became a symbol of the Iranian woman who defies stereotypes, but in the process she was often turned into a different kind of stereotype: the secular liberal Iranian woman whose story could stand in for an entire society. People tend to struggle with that kind of complexity forgetting that one woman’s story is exactly that, one person’s account!

There is also a gendered dimension. Iranian women who achieve extraordinary visibility (whether Marjane Satrapi, Golshifteh Farahani, or Iran Daroodi) have often attracted a particular kind of scrutiny and resentment that their male counterparts do not face.

At the same time, some Western academics are uneasy with the way Satrapi’s work has been received. Her narratives have often been embraced by liberal audiences as evidence of women’s resistance to religious and political authority whereas scholars influenced by works such as Politics of Piety have challenged the assumption that Muslim women’s agency must take secular or liberal forms. The result is that Satrapi can become a flashpoint in larger debates about feminism, secularism, Islam, and representation.

So the criticism comes from different directions: diaspora misogyny, discomfort with her symbolic status in the West, and genuine intellectual disagreements about how women’s agency and freedom should be understood.

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

Sometime post Year of the Glad, after getting involved with Avril Incandenza (Luria P (?)) and narrowly escaping the AFR.

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

John Wayne on a Vespa in Rome, 1950s.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Only a god can be a COMPLETE DICKHEAD. Humans can only be fair to middling dickheads, as Beckett never said.

[lydia @oh_tuntun]

now reading while shaking my head the whole time so people don’t misunderstand my views

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

"What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic?"

"..."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog."

Will think of this book for a long long time.

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

Nobody shall ever write dialogues half as ludicrous and 'fatally pulchritudinous' as these

[Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts]

Dear book reviewers,
If you are reading a book in translation, please remember that every single word you are reading was chosen by the translator. Every. Single. Word. Sometimes even agonized over for hours, or days. There are two authors of a translated book, not one.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Lifelong Libertarian activist Ayn Rand enrolls in Social Security and Medicare, as she has gotten lung cancer after years of heavy smoking.

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

@souryatanu would have been the worst of the shortlist, if not for Nights Are Quiet in Tehran lol

[Durbar Chakrabarty @Durbar2003]

As uncool as it might have been, The Director was the best of the lot by miles.