Takeshi Sudo

The Deserters | The Booker Prizes A mesmerising and inventive novel that lays bare the devastations of war on the most intimate aspects of our lives

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“He sets off, once his reluctant feet are wrapped in the wretched green spongy knit, still wet, in the direction of destiny, North, for chaos and oblivion must be named.”

— Mathias Énard, The Deserters
(tr. @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social)

#sundaysentence

“It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 5-5

#OperationEpicFury

No trace of turning fingers marks the pages, no wear at the margins — they lie there still, as untouched as if the years had forgotten them.

Great idea!

I have no more than fifteen LOA volumes to my name, yet I am drawn to them—their weight, their patient pages, the sense that they gather whole seasons of a life between their covers. (here I tried Faulkneresque approach 😆)

At a secondhand bookstore I passed on a whim, I found two LOA volumes of Faulkner at a bargain. One of those lucky days.

ポール・オースター『Baumgartner』の「14」に関するメモ

“ポール・オースター『Baumgartner』の「14」に関するメモ”を投稿しました。
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— Pascal Quignard, ABYSSES (tr. Chris Turner)

“To live and walk in Rome was a violently moving experience each time I stayed there. The intense co-presence of all the elements of distinct periods, even when set side by side, forms a strange, scattered unity—a unity that involves no rivalries, that is heterogeneous, calming.”

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Suspended Passion : Interviews by Marguerite Duras | Seagull Books The interviews that make up the book were conducted in 1987, when Italian journalist Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre met the 73-year-old Duras at her Paris flat and convinced her to sit for a series o...

“The sea fascinates and terrifies me. I’ve been horrified since childhood by the idea of being swept away by water. But the real sea is the North Sea. And only Melville in Moby Dick has put its terrible threatening power into words.”

Duras, Suspended Passion (Tr. Chris Turner)

#MelvilleMonday 🐳

“a noisy old Métro car with metallic wheels screeching along the iron rails and the lovely doors of varnished wood with the silver handles that had to be pushed up by the knob for the doors to spring open.”

— Paul Auster, Baumgartner
#sundaysentence

“We often derive much profit from reading a book in a different way from that which its author intended but only (once childhood is over) if we know that we are doing so.”

—— W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

me too!

I think those rubbery covers are online POD only. Especially Amazon. An industry production shift...

私は遲刻する。世の中の鐘が鳴つてしまつたあとで、私は到著する。私は旣に負傷してゐる。⋯⋯

——菱山修三　詩集『定本懸崖・荒地』（昭和17年、青磁社）

“Everyone sets out today to arrive yesterday. The thing is to manage not to arrive.”

— Pascal Quignard, ABYSSES (tr. Chris Turner)

“It is this ‘distance beyond all hope of being covered’ that we are trying to feel as we read. A distance beyond all hope of coverage between what we have known and what we couldn’t have experienced.”

— Pascal Quignard, ABYSSES (tr. Chris Turner)

“The destination is to arrive at this perpetual deferral, to never reach the destination.”

— Teju Cole, Blind Spot

#SundaySentence

YouTube video by sdeslimbes John Berger and Michael Silverblatt - part 1

John Berger and Michael Silverblatt - part 1
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Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie S...

#MichaelSilverblatt
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YouTube video by Leaf by Leaf Michael Silverblatt's Library

Michael Silverblatt's Library
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'Yes. As everyone who heard of Melville knows this oft repeated remark:
“meditation and water are wedded forever.”'

—— Etel Adnan, Sea and Fog

#MelvilleMonday

『MAZURKA440』
外間さんの紡ぐ物語は、どこまでもやさしい。読み進めるうちに、そのやさしさが甘さなどではないことに気づく。哀しさも寂しさもすべてを飲み込んで、最後には薄明のような光だけが残る。そういう物語だ。それを希望と呼んでもいいし、余韻と呼んでもいい。

“…so still that the drops of wax could be heard falling from the candles.”

Anna Karenina

#SundaySentence

—— Cees Nooteboom, Lost Paradise (tr. Susan Massotty)

#sundaysentence
“I looked out of the window and saw him sitting in the early rays of the sun, a dark silhouette in the sand, motionless as a rock, and knew at once that I had substituted one memory for another and that this one would leave me with as little peace as the other one had.”

“We often derive much profit from reading a book in a different way from that which its author intended but only (once childhood is over) if we know that we are doing so.”

—— W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays