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After reading the Wabi Sabi thread, I picked up a collection of short stories by Junichirô Tanizaki called "The tattoo" (stories are: - "The Tattoo" - "The Young boys" & "The secret"
It's really delightfully read, extremely atmospheric, well written and deliciously perverse. Highly recommended
lots of understated sexual deviation, with a strong dream-like quality that is extremely admirable
After reading the Wabi Sabi thread, I picked up a collection of short stories by Junichirô Tanizaki called "The tattoo" (stories are: - "The Tattoo" - "The Young boys" & "The secret"
It's really delightfully read, extremely atmospheric, well written and deliciously perverse. Highly recommended lots of understated sexual deviation, with a strong dream-like quality that is extremely admirable
hmmmm
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
Bernhard is probably my favorite author. If you haven't already read them, I recommend Yes, The Loser and Woodcutters (or Cutting Timber). Two Bernhard translations have recently been published as well, My Prizes and Prose.
just about done with Rupert Everett's autobiography, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins ... JG Ballard's review on the front made it sound very appealing, and the writing started off great, very vividly British snapshots of childhood, and the writing is actually very solid throughout - the guy can clearly write - but the book loses steam by the time he gets famous.
I don't think anybody writes better short stories than Carver. His portraits of middle American lives inexorably intertwined with alcohol are just about perfect, not a word more or less needs to be added to them.
I think there was a thread on sz about it a while back when it was more relevant in terms of news. I'm actually finding it quite interesting and not at all delusional or depressing.
[FONT="Century Gothic"]Bernhard is probably my favorite author. If you haven't already read them, I recommend Yes, The Loser and Woodcutters (or Cutting Timber). Two Bernhard translations have recently been published as well, My Prizes and Prose.
I've posted him here multiple times, too. My favorite as well... But I wonder how the translations are because his language style is so unique in German...
I have dreams of orca whales and owls
But I wake up in fear
Indeed. I took me a while but i learned to love Korrektur (1975) which is translated into English but translating Bernhard...
I've got that one lined up for when I finish Concrete - but I'm a bit slow so it might be a while before I get to it ... (I'm a trainee child psychotherapist so I have lots of psychoanalytic material to read as well, but Bernhard blurs the boundaries between 'work' and 'pleasure' reading!)
May I make a recommendation that I think Bernhard fans would appreciate:
Indeed. I took me a while but i learned to love Korrektur (1975) which is translated into English but translating Bernhard...
I'm sure they lose something in the translation, but they are still good books. I lived in Austria for a year, so I get some of Bernhard's references and opinions of the people in Austria. Unfortunately my German isn't good enough for me to read the original texts. To address this issue, I'm hoping to take some German language classes after I mover to New York.
THE HOUSE OF DIS embrace the twenty first movement
Almost done with Spook Country. I'll probably finish tomorrow and then jump straight in to Zero History. The art and fashion themes in this trilogy are a very interesting way to work with characters, and gives us a unique lens through which to observer our world.
As the man said, technological innovation comes from either art or the military, and it is this iron grasp on the bleeding edge that makes his latest works, even though they're set in the present day, feel like straight up cyberpunk. Though I do wish he'd head back in that direction...
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