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Nominate Haruki Murakami ? I Tituba and Segu are fantastic. I remember good rumblings in the French press about The Gospel According to the New World, and had it noted it on my to-read list. Very sad ☹️

There is the cultural and chronological distance, sure — but also a shocking contemporaneity. It's a kind of millenium-old blog of a Kardashian hanger-on! A book I keep near my pillow, as prescribed.

I remember picking over books in the big fleamarket north of Paris a decade and a half ago (!!), and being told by the bookseller, with that characteristic French/Parisian superciliousness, that Gracq's Le Rivage des Syrtes (translated in English as The Opposing Shore for some reason) was "one...

Many thanks to Tiga and Bartleby for organising and hosting, and it really was nice to share an IRL moment (well, more IRL than forum posting). I wish it could be more IRL and I could share the tea I was fussing around with; perhaps some day.

Are these the times? Will we get a link?

I'll try as well

This Friday I had the occasion to see a recent play called "The Handke Project: Or, Justice for Peter’s Stupidities". I had stumbled on it a couple of years back combing over the theatrical offer here in Florence; it seems it is some how connected to Teatro della Pergola, though I saw it it in...

Flipping through some Morrison translations in French brings to mind the following simile: like looking down at your prosthetic leg. It might get you where you need to go — but it is not innervated.

Prompted me to search her essay Education of a poet. Characteristically, each sentence a knife. https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/TPE-Seminar-2.pdf

I quite like Markson. Wittgenstein's Mistress was pure Beckettian-Bernhardian fun for me, and Reader's Block a fascinating obsessive compiling of notes on writers and artists, death failure & disease, and renewed shredding of the reader/writer contrivance of fiction. I have the other three of...

Ahahahahaha!!! Brilliant

Henry Kissinger. A communist. I wish he were hooked up to a dynamo, because the spinning in his grave would power entire continents.

No — these are practitioner-scholars. A different beast.

Anyway, as my trending hashtag on twitter was: REST IN PISS BOZO And thus the IR shitpost meme is complete:

Admittedly I've not read him, but around him — I'm rather into so-called "realism" in IR actually, but more as a problematic object containing an irritating, inescapable truth: humankind's potential inhumanity towards itself... And the literature I'm more familiar with is rather critical on big...

But why would you say he had a brilliant mind? This seems more like a received wisdom than something supported by facts.

Why?

I'm glad that Le Clézio is having a moment of appreciation here. And especially for Étoile errante, given the current events... As @dc007777 very aptly puts it, the empathy of Le Clézio at his best is astonishing. Le Clézio subjugated me when I first read him (Onitsha). I've read Laxness for...

Yay! Another Francophone to enjoy unmediated by translation ? She's been on my radar for a while, happy to discover her

I'm very glad she's on the shortlist, and I'm really looking forward to what people will think of her works. Reposting from the general thread, if useful: I would go for Paradise of the Blind, or if you're up to the doorstopper challenge, The Zenith. (Novel Without a Name is also highly...