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Dmitry’s 2025 Year in Books
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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 | |
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For me, Salinger’s Nine Stories reads as a collection of states. Almost nothing happens here in the conventional sense, and everything hinges on those moments when a person suddenly, almost imperceptibly, begins to see life differently. The stories th ...more |
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| O Retorno by Dulce Maria Cardoso was the first novel I read in Portuguese. It's about the retornados — literally "the returned": people who, in the wake of the Carnation Revolution, were forced to leave Portugal's former colonies as they gained indep ...more | |
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| Flaubert's Parrot is one of those books that resists classification. To call it a novel is to mislead the reader; to call it an essay is to put them off. Barnes created something else entirely: an intellectual investigation disguised as biography, a ...more | |
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| I'm not a fan of a direct "message" in books — when you feel the author has figured everything out in advance and is now walking you by the hand toward the right conclusion. Olga Tokarczuk takes a different route. She simply puts you in her protagoni ...more | |
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| At first, the text was difficult to read: the language is rhythmic, deliberately anachronistic, full of repetitions and incantatory tones that initially repel and disrupt expectations of a “conventional” dramatic work. I had to learn how to read it. ...more | |
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| Byatt's prose is dense, Victorian, saturated with air and dust — like those books I read as a child at night with a flashlight under the blanket and couldn’t put down. For all its layered complexity, not a single wasted line. A genuine intellectual p ...more | |
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| I reread On the Road for the third time. About fifteen years passed between each reading. Which means I opened this book three times — and each time in a different life. Each time it was a different text. Or a different me. It’s hard to say where the ...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
― 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. :)