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Just finished Klaus Mann's "Der Vulkan". The ending was a bit of a letdown but I enjoyed the book nonetheless.
Now re-reading Murakami's "Sleep" (or whatever the english title of it is). The german edition comes in a beautiful hard cover with illustrations... I like the multimodal experience of it. But I know, Murakami is being seen controversial on SZ. Has anybody read 1Q84, yet? Opinions?
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you are just insecure impressionable youth is the least appropriate time to read nabokov.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Originally posted by Faust View Postyou are just insecure impressionable youth is the least appropriate time to read nabokov.
I understand that he is a great writer and everything, and I admire the craft (which is about the only thing I enjoy in his books tbh)... I just really don't like him
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Isn't it awesome that as we grow up, we can become so secure that we can safely say, I don't like this or that great writer?Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Searching for some recommended reading - writing a paper on (essentially) how changes in printing technology effected the politics to an extent but primarily the perception of illustration. Anything from xylography to photographic related methods. I've got the photographic section well understood but even in this class we haven't much discussed how illustration or pre-photographic was 'perceived' in relation to truth.* (compared to something along the lines of how photography very generally went from being accepted as 'absolute' to now being seen with rather significant doubt as a result of philosophy and technology i.e. photoshop)
To sum it up: having trouble finding material regarding pre-photograpy related technologies and would appreciate any suggestions!
*it's not an especially good class - my knowledge of photography related writings are from another excellent class i took last year.
To keep with the thread to some extent, I'm reading the [i]Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness[/url] collection of writings by Kenzaburo Oe. Really fantastic writing. Highly recommended.
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