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After seeing cs' post above I went to the library and came across a 4-in-1 volume of Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, just started reading. Very curious indeed that this book should have found its way into my life at this point in time...
"If she ever knew me at all she must later have discovered that for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made - ironic tenderness and silence."
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/\ good luck. i found it rather flat.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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I see some one recently purchased the wind up bird chronicles, I have also just started reading after finishing Norwegian wood which I found to be one of the best books that I have read, maybe because it just fits where I am in life so well. The first Murakami book that I read was the elephant vanishes and I’ve been hooked ever since.
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I just finished reading Andre Breton's L'amour fou, Mad Love. It definately had some interesting points and beautiful language and mood in it, but in the end it left me to be a kind of outsider to his world. I must say that I enjoyed Nadja more. But I loved Man Ray's photos, they suit Breton's writing very well giving all new meanings to his words.
Before that I read Yukio Mishima's The sailor who fell from grace with the sea. It had this character who was part of a teenage gang, and together they felt something like a superhumans without emotions and such. They had studied their Nietzsche in a teenage way I suppose, just like the school killers in the 00's. A strange and partly revolting, but still an interesting read. Much like the author's life.
About Murakami, I must confess that I'm a fan. I can understand why folks here don't appreciate him too much, and I can see why he's seen as an easy read, without too much depth. Kind of a writer for young adults without real life experience. Or something. But there is something in his writing I can relate very much. For example in Kafka on a shore there was this one single page about missing and sorrow that had the most beautiful lines I read the whole year. And I do love his sense of humour. He may not be the best writer in the world (...is there one? :)), but there are aspects in Murakami I appreciate very much.
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^how did you enjoy the Durrell, ftb?
Can any of our resident philosophy/aesthetics peeps offer some insight into this text? I'm not reading it yet, but came across an intriguing reference...
Benedetto Croce, Breviary of Aesthetics...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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i only finished Justine, laika, since I had to return the book to the library due to leaving town. The writing style was great, right up my alley in its abstract-articulate style of describing people and things, but for the same reason came to become quite tedious after 200 pages as Durrell really gets carried away with his own technical virtuosity. I wonder how the other 3 books pan out; I'd run out of steam fast if it read the same way in tone, although I admire the consistency...
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Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian GrayFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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