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When all the world's a stage
Audition by Katie KitamuraMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I went through a period where I loved the work of the 20th-century French author Alain Robbe-Grillet, who wrote The Voyeur, Jealousy, and The Erasers, along with the screenplay for the 1961 Alain Resnais film Last Year at Marienbad. Robbe-Grillet posited that you can never truly know anyone, including yourself, and his writing consisted of detac Read more of this blog post »
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| Paul Lynch's Prophet Song, which won the Booker Prize in 2023, follows the general rules of a horror story, with Ireland's descent into brutal authoritarianism serving as the source of the terror. The plot focuses on Eilish, a molecular biologist at ...more | |
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| I really love many of Jean Cocteau's books and films, so I was excited to read The Difficulty of Being. Unfortunately, this collection of essays has only occasional insights buried among mounds of pompous, vapid exposition. However genius many of his ...more | |
"Spent far too much time trudging through this pretentious twaddle, hoping there would be some redemption towards the end.
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| I've long been meaning to watch Béla Tarr's acclaimed film Satantango, which was adapted from László Krasznahorkai's novel. Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize last year, and I'd not read any of his work, so when Tarr died recently, it seemed the time ...more | |
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| I've long been meaning to watch Béla Tarr's acclaimed film Satantango, which was adapted from László Krasznahorkai's novel. Krasznahorkai won the Nobel Prize last year, and I'd not read any of his work, so when Tarr died recently, it seemed the time ...more | |
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Gerardo Sámano Córdova's first novel Monstrilio begins as a couple's young son dies, and his mother, in grief, excavates a piece of his lung to keep. His father, discovering the mutilated body, is horrified. This brief prologue is told in a third-pers ...more |
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"‘One believes the stupidest things in grief,’ Gerardo Sámano Córdova writes in his debut novel, the literary horror Monstrilio. There are few griefs more shattering than the death of a child and one might do the strangest things in grief to try and r"
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