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Dmitry’s 2025 Year in Books
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I read R.F. Kuang's Yellowface with mixed feelings: the writing is excellent, but there are noticeable weaknesses too. The novel works remarkably well as a satire of the contemporary literary world. Kuang focuses less on literature itself than on the ...more |
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| The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun is one of those books that leaves a bitter aftertaste because there's no consolation in it, no catharsis, no hope. Written in 1921–1922, this short novella became a merciless satire of Chinese society on the eve of re ...more | |
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Having read Richard Wright’s Black Boy, I found myself thinking for a long time about it as a self-contained statement. And yet the book truly opens up only in light of its publication history. Black Boy is the autobiography of African American writer ...more |
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| The Black Book is a map of the territory where I live as a writer — a territory where identity is not a fortress but a manuscript, constantly added to and rewritten by other hands. In Pamuk's world, Istanbul is not a city. It is an enormous, dusty bo ...more | |
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| Thousands of reviews have been written about Voltaire’s Candide. The 1759 philosophical tale has been taken apart into quotations; its satire of Leibnizian optimism has long since become canonical, and the final phrase about cultivating one’s garden ...more | |
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| I think of Midnight’s Children less as a novel about India than as a story about what it means to carry a country inside your own body. To be India itself. Saleem Sinai is born not merely at the moment of independence; he is born in direct contact wi ...more | |
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| It is a landmark book in Chinese literature. Lu Xun is considered the founder of modern Chinese prose, and his stories from the 1920s became a manifesto for a new realist movement. He wrote about old China – its cruel traditions, superstitions, and p ...more | |
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Why This Book Exists: Antoine Galland and the Arabian Nights This mass-market English edition belongs to the tradition that begins not in Arabic manuscripts but with Galland’s French rewriting. Antoine Galland was a serious man. Antiquarian to the kin ...more |
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| Rereading Sealed Off by Eileen Chang, one is struck by how an ordinary urban scene, a stalled tramcar during a wartime blockade, gives birth to such a piercing story about loneliness and fleeting intimacy. Eileen Chang does not idealize her character ...more | |
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A long and challenging novel about the Vietnam War – not “about events” in the usual sense, but an attempt to understand how war exists in human experience. What struck me most was how Johnson tells this war. He doesn’t present it linearly or try to a ...more |
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“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. :)