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Proper Breathing
I (loosely, as required by its setting) translated my own book into English. It can be read on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/works/443...). It's almost a different book - the story is the same, but the narative had to be adjusted, now that the protagonist is retelling her story in English. Also, some names were changed, for their own good.
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"Proclus said that "It is customary for theologians to put Crete in the place of the Intelligible," (In Tim. I, 118); so too Durrell. A jewel of a novel, a petite masterwork of high modernism. It's as though Agatha Christie wrote an alchemical text.
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"I've read this book multiple times. It's one of my favorite of all times. Every character in this novel has finds their own version of salvation, only to find it's also their own hell. Some survive, some don't.
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"This is the best book no one's ever heard of. It's really had to find, and I can't understand why, because Lawrence Durrell's a pretty popular author. This was the first book I read by him and still my favorite, about a group of people who get separa"
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| The idea was neat, and the execution was fine, and some of the details were indeed in the vein of "you had to be there", i.e. quite exquisite. However: Whereas the typical lightheaded tone of a travel guide fits very well when it sends you to Woodsto ...more | |
“One can't have everything. (подумав) I had everything. (подумав еще и повеселев) I still have everything. Пойдемте, Иосиф Михалыч, бензин кончается.”
― Правильное дыхание
― Правильное дыхание
“The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another)
-the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man could rub off on the mediocrity of another)
-the parents who search geneological trees in order to evaluate their prospective son-in-law.
-the celebrity who starts his autobiography with a detailed account of his family history
-All these are samples of racism.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
-the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man could rub off on the mediocrity of another)
-the parents who search geneological trees in order to evaluate their prospective son-in-law.
-the celebrity who starts his autobiography with a detailed account of his family history
-All these are samples of racism.”
― The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
