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Dmitry’s 2025 Year in Books
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| The story, at least its first half, is almost comic. O’Connor is mercilessly funny here. Hulga, with her ostentatious nihilism and her doctorate in philosophy, is herself slightly cartoonish. She wants to be a tragic intellectual, yet she lives with ...more | |
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Rebecca Kuang's Babel left me with a strange impression. I loved the idea behind it. I loved the world. I loved Babel itself. But the protagonist never quite became a living person for me. Kuang came up with a fascinating linguistic magic system. Here ...more |
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| O'Connor was a Catholic with a very dark view of grace. In her work, grace doesn't arrive through virtue. It comes through shock, through extremity, through an encounter with death. And A Good Man Is Hard to Find is probably one of the most interesti ...more | |
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Таинства и обыкновения. Проза по случаю (Russian Edition):
"Сильнейшая книга для всех, кто пишет или работает с текстом. Что делает текст крутым, как взаимодействовать с читателями и аудиторией, как быть писателем, которого будут читать и через 10, и через 100 лет, и так далее…
А ещё Фланнери О’Коннор пишет та" Read more of this review » |
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“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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| Flannery O'Connor's characters are always alive, funny, pitiful, and cruel at the same time. That's exactly why her stories are so difficult to shake after reading. She gives the reader no safe moral distance. You start out laughing at the characters ...more | |
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| Flannery O'Connor's A Circle in the Fire is a story about the fragility of what we call our own. That was one of my first thoughts after reading it. It's also about the intrusion of evil — evil that arrives not as tragedy, but as a mixture of adolesc ...more | |
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| Continuing with Flannery O'Connor. A Temple of the Holy Ghost is a very strange story, because on the surface almost nothing happens in it. A girl listens to adults talking, cousins come home from school, somewhere nearby a hermaphrodite from a fairg ...more | |
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| Salinger’s Franny and Zooey reads differently than Nine Stories — slower, denser, with more space. But if Nine Stories left a sense of fragility, here it finds an address. The same exhaustion with the world, the same thinning of the protective layer ...more | |
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| The Stranger by Albert Camus is, for me, a story about a man who sees the world with a certain directness. He notices everything, but doesn’t rush to react, doesn’t give what is expected of him. And that directness feels very close to a photojournali ...more | |
“Our homeland in the language we spoke, thought, and wrote in, not the place where we were born. We live in the space of our language, and to expand it, it's not enough to just leave; we need to start thinking in other languages.”
― Clochard
― Clochard
“We are all connected by the finest of threads. We create worlds for each other through our existence. When someone close to you dies, it immediately affects everything around you; and everyone’s lives, whether they feel it or not, are changed forever.”
― Clochard
― Clochard
“Long ago, we had both realized that the only constructive conversation possible between us was sex. Neither of us could hear normal words. We each spoke our minds and listened only to ourselves. Only during sex did we share sensations and truly be present together. How long could that last? Probably forever. Would we have been happy for eternity? Why not? Sex wasn’t about interests or cultural differences; it was self-sufficient.”
― Clochard
― Clochard
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really...How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Exhalation
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Ola, Dmitry! Thank you for contacting me. Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings!Best wishes from Majenta💙💛🌻
Best wishes from Majenta💙💛🌻"
Ola, Majenta! Thank you and Nice to meet you. :)