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Last week, there was a double billing of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Antonioni's Blow-Up, organized by Supakino at the Close-Up Film Centre in London, UK. Now, I don't live in London. But I follow Supakino on Instagram and got major FOMO from the event's promos. Enough for me to pick up again the book where I had left it back in June. Of course, in the original Cortázar story, it is the photographer who gets murdered.
— Oct 03, 2025 12:05AM
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Bestiary felt quite different thematically from the stories preceding it. And then, The Gates of Heaven was way too depressing. It reminded me of certain scenes from Antonioni's La Notte and Fellini's La Dolce Vita, and the overwhelming alienation of those lives. (I haven't even gotten to Blow-Up yet, which is the next story.) As if existing in our current era isn't alienating enough as it is. :(
— May 16, 2025 09:21AM
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Re-reading Continuity of Parks after so long. Had forgotten how economical it is! Back then, I had preferred Heidi Julavits reworking of this story as "Judge Gladys Parks-Schultz" - but now find it too ironic. Now, I prefer the economy of Cortázar's original story.
— May 16, 2025 12:16AM
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Part One. Axolotl. House Taken Over. The Distances. The Idol of the Cyclades. Letter to a Young Lady in Paris. A Yellow Flower.
Enjoyable on the whole. Other authors I've read - Jorge Luis Borges, Tove Jansson, or Clarice Lispector - do it better, and I don't necessarily feel the same excitement and wonder reading Cortázar that I felt when I first read them. But still enjoyable.
— Apr 20, 2025 09:52AM
Enjoyable on the whole. Other authors I've read - Jorge Luis Borges, Tove Jansson, or Clarice Lispector - do it better, and I don't necessarily feel the same excitement and wonder reading Cortázar that I felt when I first read them. But still enjoyable.
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It occurs to me that, being back in my childhood home, I am face-to-face with all my past and future selves. Every version of me that has been. Every version of me that will be. All present, simultaneously, unmoving, breathing, waiting for someone to make the first move and set things into action. Among them, the one that read Continuity of Parks at college, but didn't bother to read more of Cortazar. Idiot.
— Apr 12, 2025 12:01PM
