What are you reading?

[pbt]

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[quote user="Yan"]Platform by Houllebeq. hard work but worth it.[/quote]</P>


How so, Yan?</P>

[eaglewood]

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Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano - Excellent book - I find it very funny too</p>

The Yacoubian Building - Alaa al Aswany - Worth reading especially if you know Cairo</p>

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[pbt]

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Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolano - Excellent book - I find it very funny too</p>

The Yacoubian Building - Alaa al Aswany - Worth reading especially if you know Cairo</p>

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Have just started in with the Bolano myself.
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[Real Real]

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Rereading Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews...haven't read it since college.

[eaglewood]

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There is supposed to be more Boleno being translated and published in English later this year. I must say that he is one of the best writers that I have come across in the last 5 years. I hope that you enjoy it Pbt.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>E</DIV>

[Faust]

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George Steiner - Language and Silence</p>

Walter Benjamin - Illuminations</p>

[iSuck]

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Just finished Life of Pi and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Currently reading Bringing Down the House after seeing 21.

[dontbecruel]

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Walter Benjamin - Illuminations</p>

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I'd be interested to know what you think of "The Image of Proust"</p>

I know you dislike a lot of the writing that has been influenced by Benjamin, but this is a beautiful tear-jerker for me.</p>

[Faust]

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why do you say that, dbc? what writing in particular? i will let you know after i read the essay (I love Proust). I like Benjamin's writing, it's so f-ing weird and beautiful.

[dontbecruel]

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Well, I think a lot of the po-mo post-post-structuralists are very influenced by Benjamin's oddness. They don't seem to have quite got the "and beautiful" bit though!

[laika]

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I too, get teary when I read the Proust piece.</p>


...Jean Cocteau was able to say in a beautiful essay </p>

that the intonation of Proust's voice obeyed the laws of night and honey.</p>

By submitting to these laws he conquered the hopeless sadness within him,</p>

and from the honeycombs of memory he built a house for the swarm of his thoughts. </p>

Cocteau recognized what really should have been the major concern of all readers of Proust </p>

and yet has served no one as the pivotal point of his reflections or his affection.</p>

He recognized Proust's blind, senseless, frenzied quest for happiness.</p>

It shone from his eyes; they were not happy, but in them lay fortune as it lies in gambling or in love.</p>

[laika]

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ps. Faust, the Baudelaire essay is also very wonderful. Not as tightly crafted at the Image of Proust, but still marvelous. And also the key to the Arcades Project, according to many. Please do keep us posted on what you think of it all.

[mamaboy]

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i was so obssessed with proust--smugled 1922 edition when moved to us

[mamaboy]

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celine calls him: "..o proust who was half a ghost"

[mamaboy]

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[quote user="Yan"]Platform by Houllebeq. hard work but worth it.[/quote]</P>


i am hufe fan,but of other books,by the way he just shot the movie "possibility of the island"</P>