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@lizetteratura do share oomfie 😭 I been reading John of John. I still have a couple unread shortlisters (The Disappearers and Black Bag) but rn my bets are on John or MWFTK (I think the King will win imo). The Strout is very trite shallow stuff, and felt similar about the Harrison too.
classic of 20C persian lit; unreliable narrator par excellence, with a wonderful sense of mise-en-abîme, a kind of möbius-strip of a narrative in which hallucinatory, opium-mediated events, characters, phrases recur and recur. a great discovery.
My students start Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” Tuesday and in addition to the examples in Chapters 1-2 he includes, I use a lot of Ren Hang photographs as a case study. I think some of you might like his work a lot— I hope it continues to gain momentum in museums and galleries.
The way the scene of Benjamin's death is revealed in Michele Mari's All the Iron in the Eiffel Tower, my god... One of the most emotional and haunting things I've ever translated. Will now be on my mind all day.
"Now we're almost good and through, now we're almost at Portbou..."