The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère (2017)
A fascinating book, about a fascinating topic, by a fascinating author. I have felt compelled, and still feel compelled, to read all his works, from ‘The Moustache’ of 1986 – which is a profound work of literature, a real masterpiece of a novel – through to his biographical stuff like ‘The Adversary’ and ‘Limonov’, with as much of him in it – his fascinating ego – as his subject: it renders the whole thing more honest rather than less.
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrère (2017)
A fascinating book, about a fascinating topic, by a fascinating author. I have felt compelled, and still feel compelled, to read all his works, from ‘The Moustache’ of 1986 – which is a profound work of literature, a real masterpiece of a novel – through to…
31.01.2026 09:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@didau.bsky.social that Binet book was a bit of a let down. Nowhere near as good as his other 3. I’m onto Kingdom now - more engrossing
19.01.2026 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Downtown, Manhattan, New York, 1947
13.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 103 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
One of the best. I’ve a friend who reads this every year. A real joy!
11.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BEHOLD! The voice of Odin!
".....Hai!"
08.01.2026 10:36 — 👍 53 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
No hate. No disrespect. Philosophy graduate - and I fully appreciate its value. As one of the ‘human sciences’ such as history (even lit - which I teach) - but I fear people trying to sciencify it.
02.01.2026 19:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
But yes - looking only at my own specific area - education - it’s not - in the last 25 years - been anything like cancer research
02.01.2026 18:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m thankful medicine is ‘fast’ in that it makes clear progress over say a generation. Sociology - whilst far ‘cleverer’ and more professional - and scientific in many aspects - has - over the couple of generations of its existence not solved much
02.01.2026 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
…the progress in cancer treatment Vs that in education for example. The comparison is almost ridiculous
02.01.2026 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Not a matter of respect. No bridges ever fell down because a sociologist got things backwards. To say there’s a difference doesn’t imply that one has no value.
02.01.2026 13:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
theoretical physics is interesting example - especially where it produces stuff that doesn’t make (common) sense - but still stands up. Upon application. Educational theory is instead a load of common sense that often as not turns out to be wrong in various ways… happening again and again
02.01.2026 13:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hard sciences keep hitting against reality - building bridges that don’t fall down, curing cancer, designing widgets - leading to an accumulation of real bits…
02.01.2026 13:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Compare progress in education or sociology & medicine or particle physics… stand back… no one can contend that they’re both the same. One is clearly progress, the former is just stirring the pot
02.01.2026 07:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cutting edge - unproven theory - in physics - will stand or fall in time. Verifiable. It predicts real world consequences. But theory in education or economics or sociology- will all - more or less - be amended in time. Be superseded. And not in the same way newton was for example.
01.01.2026 20:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There’s a difference between the hard sciences and the non-hard ones - the progress in the latter - economics, psychology, sociology etc - is not the same. Also, proponents of the former are less likely to get defensive. They don’t need to
01.01.2026 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano (1978)
This ia the sixth novel by French writer Modiano, and was awarded the Prix Goncourt. In 2014, Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, it reads, for the most part, as no more than a silly little puzzle. Who is our narrator / protagonist? He doesn’t know. We don’t know. And so we set about finding out, like detectives.
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano (1978)
This ia the sixth novel by French writer Modiano, and was awarded the Prix Goncourt. In 2014, Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. However, it reads, for the most part, as no more than a silly little puzzle. Who is our narrator /…
30.12.2025 08:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
Another example of how a novel can get lost in the weeds of what didn’t happen. There are dreams, wonderings, musings, discussions, analysis of dreams, theorising, and all that jazz – just not much stuff happens, or when it does it happens off screen it is merely used as fodder for yet more musings, philosophizing and what-if this that and the other.
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
Another example of how a novel can get lost in the weeds of what didn’t happen. There are dreams, wonderings, musings, discussions, analysis of dreams, theorising, and all that jazz – just not much stuff happens, or when it does it happens off screen it…
29.12.2025 08:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt (2009)
“There is a lot of chat in Hustvedt's new novel. Erik is a psychotherapist with some difficult clients, he's just divorced, and is falling for the young single mum, Miranda, in the flat below. His sister, Inga, was married to a famous writer, Max, who has recently died, and they chat about what it's like to be in love with a writer and how you kind of fall in love with them through their writing.
The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt (2009)
“There is a lot of chat in Hustvedt's new novel. Erik is a psychotherapist with some difficult clients, he's just divorced, and is falling for the young single mum, Miranda, in the flat below. His sister, Inga, was married to a famous writer, Max,…
28.12.2025 11:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pot Luck by Emile Zola (1883)
It’s a real event, reading a Zola novel. In reading ‘Pot Luck’, the tenth novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, as with reading ‘Nana’ or ‘The Brighter Side of Life’, or ‘Germinal’, or ‘The Masterpiece’, maybe even every other novel from the series; your life is taken over for a period by Zola: you are consumed by the novel, in a way that few modern novels consume the reader.
Pot Luck by Emile Zola (1883)
It’s a real event, reading a Zola novel. In reading ‘Pot Luck’, the tenth novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series, as with reading ‘Nana’ or ‘The Brighter Side of Life’, or ‘Germinal’, or ‘The Masterpiece’, maybe even every other novel from the series; your life is…
20.12.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And of course - The Moustache
18.12.2025 22:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Just looked at that other chap. I love Carrère too. And didn’t know about his new stuff. The novel he wrote about the murder in northern France way back is immense
18.12.2025 22:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Love Neapolitan Q (off to Napoli for Christmas). Didn’t know Binet had a new novel. Loved the other three too. So can’t wait. This year I e fallen for Zola & Hustevedt
18.12.2025 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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