Piet Mondrian. (Dutch, 1872-1944). Tableau no. 2 / Composition no. V. 1914. Oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 33 5/8″ (54.8 x 85.3 cm). The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
(On view @ the MOMA!–field trip, field trip, field trip!)
I have 63 bookmarks on delicious. Saved over the past month and meant to assist in organzing my thoughts and interests. Hasn’t done me much good hanging about on my delicious page….so I will present some of them here in link format, along with my thoughts. Hours and hours of reading.
P.S. I want a macbook and an i-touch. I need a job and a loan and the courage to spend 1000 on something. ( I really do need it for school…. where I will be studying metadata, compiling and organizing metadata. Thus, I need a computer to haul around in my purse. And an i-touch to help me get around the labyrinthine NYC streets. Imagine me lost in the rain!)) And I need to listen to music on the subway. P.S. This paragraph was a blatant digression and I will now do what I came here to do:
Not only is ‘The Invention of Morel’ by Adolfo Bioy Casares a NYRB classic, in cute little book form, but the author was one of Bolano’s influences. His is Latin American (a sub-set I want to explore more and more) and it was given this review @ conversational reading…
“Some books are so incredibly easy to write reviews of. Books like Morel unleash thousand-word torrents of commentary in my mind, and the hardest part is whittling down what I want to say to what will fit in the space of a review. Morel makes things even easier because it comes with the most obvious hook in the world: Adolfo Bioy Casares is (scandalously) little-known here even though he has about the strongest Borges connection possible in literature.
I think I’ve mentioned Morel before on this blog, but this bears repeating: read this book. Please, read this book. It’s one of the great detective fictions of the 20th century, and, despite its short 100 pages, you will be interpreting this book all night long. And you will probably read it again, if not to figure out what the hell is going on then at least to vainly attempt to recreate the experience of reading it for the first time.”
Fuerzabruta–if I ever get around to seeing shows in NYC
This book comes out in Winter and I am interested in reading it slowly….’Slow Reading’ by John Miedema.
“Slow Reading” brings attention to emerging ideas in technology and culture. The traditional technologies of print and the book have persisted as part of our information ecology because of the need for slow reading and deep comprehension. The theme of locality in the Slow Movement provides insight into the importance of physical location in our relationship with information. Most of all, “Slow Reading” represents a rediscovery of the pleasure of reading for its own sake.”
Way interesting site for the future library school student in me, also the author if the book mentioned above…
50 Literary translations, in bold I have read… linked in the blogroll….
1. Raymond Queneau – Exercises in Style (Barbara Wright, 1958)
2. Primo Levi – If This is a Man (Stuart Woolf, 1959)
3. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – The Leopard (Archibald Colquhoun, 1961)
4. Günter Grass – The Tin Drum (Ralph Manheim, 1962)
5. Jorge Luis Borges – Labyrinths (Donald Yates, James Irby, 1962)
6. Leonardo Sciascia – Day of the Owl (Archibald Colquhoun, 1963)
7. Alexander Solzhenitsyn – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Ralph Parker, 1963)
8. Yukio Mishima – Death in Midsummer (Seidensticker, Keene, Morris, Sargent, 1965)
9. Heinrich Böll – The Clown (Leila Vennewitz, 1965)
10. Octavio Paz – Labyrinth of Solitude (Lysander Kemp, 1967)
11. Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master and Margarita (Michael Glenny, 1969)
12. Gabriel Garcia Marquez – 100 Years of Solitude (Gregory Rabassa, 1970)
13. Walter Benjamin – Illuminations (Harry Zohn, 1970)
14. Paul Celan – Poems (Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton, 1972)
15. Bertolt Brecht – Poems (John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Erich Fried, et al 1976)
16. Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish (Alan Sheridan, 1977)
17. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie – Montaillou (Barbara Bray, 1978)
18. Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (William Weaver, 1981)
19. Roland Barthes – Camera Lucida (Richard Howard, 1981)
20. Christa Wolf – A Model Childhood (Ursule Molinaro, Hedwig Rappolt, 1982)
21. Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose (William Weaver, 1983)
22. Mario Vargas Llosa – Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (Helen R. Lane, 1983)
23. Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Michael Henry Heim, 1984)
24. Marguerite Duras – The Lover (Barbara Bray, 1985)
25. Josef Skvorecky – The Engineer of Human Souls (Paul Wilson, 1985)
26. Per Olov Enquist – The March of the Musicians (Joan Tate, 1985)
27. Patrick Süskind – Perfume (John E. Woods, 1986)
28. Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits (Magda Bodin, 1986)
29. Georges Perec – Life A User’s Manual (David Bellos, 1987)
30. Thomas Bernhard – Cutting Timber (Ewald Osers, 1988)
31. Czeslaw Milosz – Poems (Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Hass, 1988)
32. José Saramago – Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Giovanni Pontiero, 1992)
33. Marcel Proust – In Search of Lost Time (Terence Kilmartin, 1992)
34. Roberto Calasso – The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony (Tim Parks, 1993)
35. Naguib Mahfouz – Cairo Trilogy (Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angela Botros Samaan, 1991-3)
36. Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate (Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen, 1993)
37. Bao Ninh – The Sorrow of War (Frank Palmos, Phan Thanh Hao, 1994)
38. Victor Klemperer – I Shall Bear Witness (Martin Chalmers, 1998)
39. Beowulf (Seamus Heaney, 1999)
40. Josef Brodsky – Collected Poems (Anthony Hecht et al, 2000)
41. Xingjian Gao – Soul Mountain (Mabel Lee, 2001)
42. Tahar Ben Jelloun – This Blinding Absence of Light (Linda Coverdale, 2002)
43. W.G. Sebald – Austerlitz (Anthea Bell, 2002)
44. Orhan Pamuk – Snow (Maureen Freely, 2004)
45. Amos Oz – A Tale of Love and Darkness (Nicholas de Lange, 2004)
46. Per Petterson – Out Stealing Horses (Ann Born, 2005)
47. Irène Némirovsky – Suite Française (Sandra Smith, 2006)
48. Vassily Grossman – Life and Fate (Robert Chandler, 2006)
49. Alaa Al Aswany – The Yacoubian Building (Humphrey Davies, 2007)
50. Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace (Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, 2007)
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Very interesting, but I’m thinking of combining 3 things for my library: This color system, plus a catalog number, plus a bookplate (which I’ll show you soon)… Not sure yet…. can’t make a commitment, don’t have all my books here, etc.
“With a refined treatment, the contents of the library gain the value and respect they deserve.”
‘Walking with an Essayist’–nice….
Identitytheory.com needs to be added to the blogroll….
Kafka, kafka, kafka all the time kafka…
Be creeped out by Mike Tyson’s abandoned home…. inexplicable freakiness
I want to own all of these beautiful books from Open City Books…
Read the comic about paul the ghost “you’re doing things wrong” at picturesforsadchildren.com
This is a good book review site I found http://unliteratereview.com/
I am now obsessed with Robert Bolano so I must read this: Why Bolano Matters
I am choosing between these bookplates and these bookplates. Help me choose!!!
I want to see this movie, is it on Netflix? The Hollywood Librarian
Never judge a book by its cover? I will and I’m proud of it. The Book Design Review will interest you too!
Hungarian author Peter Esterhazy deserves more of my attention: read this!
A graph to explain Bolano’s novels? Of course, I’m interested! A naive introduction here…
Add to this articles on Pamuk and Murakami… right up my alley.
An interesting site to add to the blogroll http://publishinginsider.typepad.com/
A Different Stripe… beautiful NYRB classics… I want them all! Do you have 1500 dollars I can borrow??
What I need to create my own library… to be combined with other methods… one day.
Hamlet… the facebook feed edition… McSweeney’s humor!
‘My Year As‘ amazon list….interesting in some of these.
Need to find a shorter word? Here you go
I think this is the coolest thing I’ve found all day and the only way I will order books online from now on.
Oh my gosh there is more but I’m tired of doing this right now. More Later!
