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Horacio Quiroga “The Exiles” – Guido Morselli “Dissipatio HG” – Christopher Priest “The Adjacent” – Yoko Ogawa “Revenge” – Roberto Calasso “The Ruin of Kasch” – Eugène Savitzkaya “In Life”
Thoughts on a few books: The Exiles and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga In these stories, frontiersmen carve out a life in Argentina’s brutally hot Misiones jungle. Although they spend most of their hours hard at work, their mental life is consumed by the dull mid-afternoon hours when heat makes it impossible to do anything…
Susan Sontag “Against Interpretation” – Georges Rodenbach “Bruges-La-Morte” – Philippe Soupault “Last Nights of Paris”
“Once upon a time (a time when high art was scarce), it must have been a revolutionary and creative move to interpret works of art. Now it is not. What we decidedly do not need now is further to assimilate Art into Thought, or (worse yet) Art into Culture.” – Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation” In…
Horacio Quiroga, from “Los arrecifes de coral”
My black brawls… As my black serpents slept, restlessness seized them. Writhing on the carpet, they slithered into the quivering cartoons where I triumph by weeping ruefully. The slender beasts’ agitation took the shape of sleeplessness, their silky skin softening the carpet’s maddeningly coarse weave. In the room’s cavernous silence, I kneeled before them. Their…
Jackie Ess “Darryl” – Eve Babitz “Black Swans” – Roberto Bolaño “The Savage Detectives” “Amulet” Amit Chaudhuri – “Finding the Raga” – Roberto Calasso “K.”
Darryl is a wonderfully funny and big-hearted novel about a Taoist cuck. Darryl, the protagonist, gets turned on when he watches men have sex with his wife – but he starts to wonder if the cuck lifestyle is really for him. The novel is a classic journey of self-discovery, of an unhappy man searching for…
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