what are you reading now?

[thirdform]

like it's baked into my notation (if you will) that I haven't been obliged to get new punchlines since 1848, so that won't work on me.

 

[kid charlemagne]

Portrait of an Artist as a Young man spiritual epiphany…. The third (sermon) and final chapters where dedalus becomes fully possessed completely overwhelmed me. I want to read them over again…. Joyce says you must abandon your roots and family to become you are… it’s a similar sentiment expressed by Dylan…. I need to take the courage and follow their lead and quit my job regardless of how much my mother would not want me to do that…. Dedalus three forms of literary thinking…. Lyric, epic, and dramatic…. It makes me only want to view and categorize works from my favs (Dylan, Mann, Eastwood, hopper, Mitchell, Ellroy, delillo) in these three ways…. I will soon buy Oxford editions of Ulysses and Finnegans wake…. Read this year yes

 

[kid charlemagne]

@version now I will be starting on end zone

 

[william_kent]

I've just finished reading:

Olga Tokarczuk's "The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story"

this was amazing - if I was Werner Herzog in his prime then I'd be assembling what remains of the casts and crews of Nosferatu and Herz Aus Glas and force feeding them with "shrooms" in an attempt to bring this, according to amazon one star reviews, "nothing ever happens novel" to the silver screen

full on feminist folk horror

I love the credit at the end where she states:

Author’s Note

All the misogynistic views on the topic of women and their place in the world are paraphrased from texts by the following authors:

Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Cluny, William S. Burroughs, Cato, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, Émile Durkheim, Henry Fielding, Sigmund Freud, H. Rider Haggard, Hesiod, Jack Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, Cesare Lombroso, W. Somerset Maugham, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ovid, Plato, Ezra Pound, Jean Racine, François de La Rochefoucauld, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, August Strindberg, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Semonides of Amorgos, Tertullian, Thomas Aquinas, Richard Wagner, Frank Wedekind, John Webster, Otto Weininger and William Butler Yeats.




I loved this book, I may start reading "The Books Of Jacob" some time soon

 

[luka]

Ive got book of jacob. Its unbelievably bad.

 

[luka]

Its a pastiche of a novel. Its so lightweight and half arsed.

 

[version]

You feel this way because it's a Fitzcarraldo or because you actually read it?

 

[william_kent]

Its a pastiche of a novel. Its so lightweight and half arsed.

not lightweight, it must weigh a pound or so, over 600 pages, I didn't take it on holiday in case it wrecked my luggage allowance

 

[Benny Bunter]

Augustine of Hippo, Bernard of Cluny, William S. Burroughs, Cato, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, Émile Durkheim, Henry Fielding, Sigmund Freud, H. Rider Haggard, Hesiod, Jack Kerouac, D.H. Lawrence, Cesare Lombroso, W. Somerset Maugham, John Milton, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ovid, Plato, Ezra Pound, Jean Racine, François de La Rochefoucauld, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schopenhauer, William Shakespeare, August Strindberg, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Semonides of Amorgos, Tertullian, Thomas Aquinas, Richard Wagner, Frank Wedekind, John Webster, Otto Weininger and William Butler Yeats.

Great reading list

 

[luka]

You feel this way because it's a Fitzcarraldo or because you actually read it?

I read a few chapters. It helped confirm my impression of filtzcaraldo

 

[luka]

Its like i read a comment the other day about rees mogg is a pisstake of a tory. Everything is a pisstake now. Fitz is a pisstake of a serious publisher

 

[Benny Bunter]

Whats Fitzcaraldo?

 

[version]

I've liked the two of theirs I've read, but I know what you mean. A lot of their stuff seems to be these delicate essay collections, autofiction, novels about grief, etc. It's all a bit precious. The kind of stuff that's often described as "a meditation on... ".

 

[version]

Whats Fitzcaraldo?

Indie publisher based in London that publishes experimental/literary novels and nonfiction.

Fitzcarraldo Editions

fitzcarraldoeditions.com

 

[william_kent]

Whats Fitzcaraldo?

one: an epic account of a journey down the Amazon starring Klaus Kinski (resulting in the multiple deaths of indigenous tribal people while attempting to realise Werner Herzog's singular vision )

or

two: a publishing house with an aesthetic

 

[jenks]

British publisher of four Nobel winners. Brings lots of translated writing to a wider audience and is generally thought to be a force for good in a market dominated by the big five publishing houses. Unless you’re posting on Dissensus.

 

[william_kent]

if I was 18 I'd be buying every Fitcarraldo edition because they would look uniform on my shelves

now I'm older I just have 'stacks' and I couldn't give an arse about 'style'

 

[luka]

I want them wiped out forever all their books burned but jenks wont let me

 

[version]

I have these two, but they aren't next to each other on the shelf.

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors | Fitzcarraldo Editions

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982). Written quickly under a...

fitzcarraldoeditions.com

This Is Not Miami | Fitzcarraldo Editions

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories – spiralling from real events – that bleed together reportage and the author’s rich and rigorous imagination. These crónicas – a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends...

fitzcarraldoeditions.com

 

[luka]

Unbelievable how bad that penman book is