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I too find Trakl’s poems inspiring without understanding them

Kind of funny to think of Michael Kohlhaas as a revenge thriller but I’m on board

Archipelago Books never fail to impress with the convoluted shapes that their paperbacks take the form of — why the odd rectangles ? Are any two of their books the same shape ? Love it, of course

Is it that language can express beauty or rather that it can occasionally be beautiful (?)

Some of my favourite lit crit on Joseph Roth

Updike doing a lot of age gap discourse in this one

What’s everyone’s favourite novel that takes place in or around an art school? Gotta be The Beautiful Room is Empty for me

Ok finally gonna get around to finishing the Septology now

“Two thousand years of exile, ghetto, and Torah hadn’t created a biological Jew.”

Hmmm

"brain dumping" (his words!) on your recently suicided wife in a book Kirkus describes as a "tell-all" feels pretty gross to read as an impartial observer, not gonna lie. gonna finish this anyway though. despite the bad prose

“…pile of books piled on the bed…” — not deep into this obviously but so far my prognosis is: sad book, bad prose

This may have been a tad overhyped

First time reading any of Nádas’ fiction, I understand his reputation now this rocks and is positively cranked in a serious way

Like self-help Wittgenstein lol

Wait this is really just about loving cigars lol

Wait. Does the whole mountain film to Nazi film pipeline exist as a critique because of Kracauer’s weird disdain for alpinists?

John Cheever’s The Pelican Brief

lol a page long Adam Curtis epigram to begin a chapter are kidding me

New Jhumpa season. First story is a banger

Trained killers - America’s number 1 chief export

Last in the trilogy. Roth was absolutely cooking when he wrote these

Really been meaning to dig into Sorokin so figure his first novel (though apparently quite different from the rest of his body of work) is the best place to start

was stoked when I heard about the new Carpentier translations a few months ago. Great note from Adrian Nathan West at the start of this one

Canetti a valuable member of the Writers Against Math Homework Committee

Are we really so hack as to use the appearance of a black cat as a herald of bad luck / news? Time will tell. Something I begrudgingly love about Knausgaard is that the man loves clichés

Next time someone’s asking me too many questions I’m gonna hit them with “what are you, the House Un-American Activities Committee?”

Roth’s American Trilogy is the hottest book series on tik tok right now believe it or not

Tennessee Williams’ prose work always reads somewhat like a really good parody of Tennessee Williams

Kind of a cranked novel tbh