tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post2321564386484209110..comments2023-12-24T17:41:42.989-08:00Comments on seraillon: Best of 2019, Part 2: Everything Elseseraillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-69655794185010766872023-05-21T04:37:44.559-07:002023-05-21T04:37:44.559-07:00συνεργεία καθαρισμού κτιρίων-πολυκατοικιών αθήνα<a href="https://www.dz-cleaning.com" rel="nofollow">συνεργεία καθαρισμού κτιρίων-πολυκατοικιών αθήνα</a>marina vranahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16631561142075143947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-83142634131169054312021-08-30T10:17:15.448-07:002021-08-30T10:17:15.448-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.taag companyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05889586196289987942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-76672676504075780722021-08-30T09:57:52.992-07:002021-08-30T09:57:52.992-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.taag companyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05889586196289987942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-18759203584109761372020-06-14T10:34:49.866-07:002020-06-14T10:34:49.866-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.O VERDADEIRO PThttps://portugalwasabadcolonizer.neocities.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-19373660209197037102020-05-07T18:38:04.584-07:002020-05-07T18:38:04.584-07:00Dear Jacqui, thanks for your comment from - a mont...Dear Jacqui, thanks for your comment from - a month ago! That shows how much I've been paying attention here. Anyway, I am glad you found some things to like in the post. And yes, <i>Anniversaries</i> is among other things a great New York novel and also one of the best depictions of foreigners encountering the U.S. that I've ever read. <br /><br />Those Millar books are enticing, aren't they? I have just one volume - a gift - but took that photo in a bookshop that had the whole set. <i>Wives and Lovers</i> is just terrific - thinking about right now I want to read it again - if you can find a first edition, that cover is pretty great too. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-88259822227798869372020-04-09T02:39:47.214-07:002020-04-09T02:39:47.214-07:00A fascinating selection of books, Scott. As wide-r...A fascinating selection of books, Scott. As wide-ranging and eclectic as I've come to expect from your previous selections! <br /><br />I'm glad you found Anniversaries so rewarding. And it's interesting to hear that it has almost as much to say about America as it does about Germany - I don't think I had grasped that from reading other reviews and reflections on the series.<br /><br />The Millar catches my eye too. As I think you know, I've read a couple of Millar's mysteries in the last year or two - including The Listening Walls, which you mention here. Wives and Lovers sounds terrific too, so I'm going to make a note of it for future reference. Also, book envy of the highest order - those illustrated spines are so beautiful!JacquiWinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05821296196011645410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-60215457153826426072020-02-06T05:49:38.551-08:002020-02-06T05:49:38.551-08:00Thanks, Rise, for the update that Report on Myself...Thanks, Rise, for the update that <i>Report on Myself</i> is available in English. I see Bouillier has a new trilogy out too, <i>Le Dossier sur M</i>, which is apparently a nearly 900 page dissection of a romantic relationship - and which features a thinly-veiled Sophie Calle. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-85461603419568743612020-02-01T05:07:02.247-08:002020-02-01T05:07:02.247-08:00Report on Myself is actually available in English....<i>Report on Myself</i> is actually available in English. I wanted to read that after reading Bouillier's <i>The Mystery Guest</i>, but never got around to it. In a way the novel became an unintended prequel to Sophie Calle's performance art.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-31645332073603366832020-01-08T10:20:19.555-08:002020-01-08T10:20:19.555-08:00Thanks for your kind comments. Deledda is certainl...Thanks for your kind comments. Deledda is certainly worth reading and deeply Sardinian. I plan to read a couple more of her novels this year. I recall that you had the Bartol and was curious to know what you thought of it. I worried quite a bit at the beginning about what struck me as a fairly typical Orientalism, but got completely swept up by Bartol's constantly upending expectations and zeroing on on a complex but monstrous (and relevant) central character. <br /><br /><i>Paul et Virginie</i> appealed to me partly because of the 250-year-old gap between Bernardin's apparent intentions and how they come across today. I mean some of it just made me laugh out loud. The ship scene towards the end is bathetic and risible at the same time. But I also found it a well-told tale and enormously entertaining both on the merits and on reading it, as a modern reader, aslant. And of course following it up with <i>Daphnis and Chloe</i> (which I highly, highly recommend) was a revelation. <br /><br />I have a copy of the Potocki - picked up at a second-hand book sale - but I haven't read it yet either. So maybe I should do that this year. <br /><br />Happy reading to you too in 2020!seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-41008681650568489722020-01-08T02:22:28.484-08:002020-01-08T02:22:28.484-08:00I've finally gotten round to reading this blog...I've finally gotten round to reading this blog post and your two previous ones, and I'm glad I have read them. What a treasure trove of authors and titles. I had no idea Sardinian literature is so rich. There was a surge of enthusiasm for Deledda in France last year, but I think she was billed as an Italian writer, not so much as specifically Sardinian. You've definitely got me interested in Italian and Sardinian literature. <br />Congratulations on making me think I should perhaps one day consider re-reading Paul et Virginie, which I certainly remembered as quite twee when I read it years ago. I enjoyed the Kadaré too, the Bartol less so (an issue with the French translation, I think), and I have the Albahari on my shelves. <br />I haven't read anything by Perutz yet, but I have a feeling it might be a bit similar to Jan Potocki's Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (which I have to admit I also haven't read yet). Do you know that book? <br />Wishing you a pleasant new year of reading and (where time allows) sharing. Passage à l'Est!http://passagealest.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-493875604457311322020-01-02T14:38:48.113-08:002020-01-02T14:38:48.113-08:00Thanks Andrew, not least for the link to your Kada...Thanks Andrew, not least for the link to your Kadare post. As Max said about <i>The File on H</i> in his comment to that post, it may take place in the 1930's but its subversion worked in Kadare's present. Some of the comments about the local potentates - thinly veiled stand-ins for Hoxha et al - are so scouring as to be almost shocking in their directly aimed take-downs of the dictatorship. It also amazed me to see Kadare using the same kind of authorial distancing that authors empllyed in works from centuries before in order to evade the (potentially fatal) wrath of authorities and inquisitors. <br /><br />Happy reading to you too in 2020!seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2609668304633418767.post-59211211346894295782020-01-02T12:51:15.083-08:002020-01-02T12:51:15.083-08:00What a great list of books! I particularly like th...What a great list of books! I particularly like the sound of the Kadare book. His "Broken April" is one of my favourites, but I haven't read The File on H. It's interesting to hear that it takes on the Hoxha regime, because I saw Kadare speak once in London and he was quite self-critical about the compromises he made with the regime. I wrote about it here: https://andrewblackman.net/2009/03/ismail-kadare-and-dissent/. <br /><br />Anyway, thanks for introducing me to some great books, and happy reading in 2020!Andrew Blackmanhttps://andrewblackman.netnoreply@blogger.com