Has anyone in the UK received their copy of Kafka's Diaries? It was published on Jan 10th but I was told mine was due today, only for an email this morning telling me the delivery is indefinitely delayed.
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Finally, at last, it can be added to the others, although there is no room on the shelf. Thanks be given to
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Does anyone else notice a pattern in Andrew O'Hagan's LRB pieces, specifically on Assange, Grenfell and now Prince Harry?
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New arrival. Photographed in sunlight to make it easier to read the title.
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Sightscreens praying to Mecca, although here it's more in the direction of Waterlooville...
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And good news of Lars Iyer's forthcoming novel spurious.typepad.com/spurious/2023/
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It's my birthday, which is an excuse to retweet blurb for an epub or PDF you can download for free here this-space.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-op
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How the hell did other people get this when I'm told the copy I ordered won't arrive until February?
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Obligatory new Kafka's Diaries post:
I've been dying to read these in full ever since finishing SOLENOID.
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For a moment I thought it was an instruction...
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"It’s not beyond me to imagine that there are readers who want to surrender to the strangeness of his prose". Even though I don't share my fellows' enthusiasm for Krasznahorkai, this is a pathetic review.
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"Read only books you don’t understand. And after some time, you will at least understand what it is you don’t understand and why you don’t understand it." #subtweet
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"If we live for a long time in a land like ours, in which, as you know, everything is placed, with the greatest solemnity, at the mercy of stupidity, we very soon find out that we have no choice any more."
– from Thomas Bernhard's Playing Watten #NewYearsHonours
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The Opposite Direction
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Plenty of time now to *catch up* on the books that have *piled up*, but of course I'm reading Thomas Bernhard again. "Whatever is said is all lies, that is the truth, dear sir, the empty phrase is our lifelong prison."
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Descendents of the Penlost family...
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Here are two responses from people who have read the collection as it is.
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A Christmas gift of an ebook from me to spoil the holidays for you: this-space.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-op
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"Even Jeffrey Archer's got a word processor. But I don't know, does it really need him?" youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7AJr
Getting off at Fratton has a particular meaning in three Royal Navy. Look it up.
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For years I've noticed the late Zulfikar Ghose's Proust's Vision of the Beloved as forthcoming. Today is its supposed publication date amazon.co.uk/Prousts-Vision but is apparently unavailable. Can shed some light on this?
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A brief list of books read this year that I refuse to say "I enjoyed" this-space.blogspot.com/2022/12/favour
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Kafka included a full stop in his signature. It signifies a certain psychological pathology, apparently.
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I can't take pleasure in Messi's skill given he's not English. Get Norman 'Bites yer legs' Hunter or Ron 'Chopper' Harris to take him out of the game.
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I'm seeing headlines "WNBA star Brittney Griner swapped for arms dealer" but not "Drug smuggler swapped for entrepreneur Viktor Bout". That wouldn't be impartial though, would it?
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And why he is one the few authors whose Nobel Prize is (at least in recent decades) justifiable: this-space.blogspot.com/2019/10/peter-
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On the long poem To Duration: this-space.blogspot.com/2017/12/kingdo
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To mark Handke's 80th birthday myself, here are three things: on the three great novels from the 1980s: this-space.blogspot.com/2011/05/three-
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"He hopes for a lively conversation. I respond." thegoaliesanxiety.wordpress.com/2022/12/05/for
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Here's a Ship Street twitten, Black Lion Lane, one I used on the way to work in the good old days
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Bought this from a campus marketstall in 1992; it wasn't in great condition even then. Never read it. Published by Harvester Press based in Ship Street, Brighton, which also published the first edition of Blanchot's writing in English.
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I bought this paperback for £9 in 1990 after reading the review in The Observer by Anthony Burgess. I've not read it since then and the binding glue must have dried because clumps of pages are falling out.
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"It is even more astounding to me that he is not better read and known of more widely." rogueliterarysociety.com/f/everything-p
Welcome to my world.
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Longtemps, the word opening Proust's novel, "holds us within the book and begins to teach us the lesson with which the whole novel will be concerned, that books, like life, are not repositories of meaning but generators of rhythm." – from Josipovici's The Book of God
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My first World Cup and I had a sticker album. I can just remember watching England's defeats vs Brazil and West Germany. Loss and misery continues 52 years on.
As it's the centenary of Proust's death, here's my recording of the Albertine Asleep passage from the BBC World Service circa 1978 this-space.blogspot.com/2015/02/albert (Sorry wrong URL before)
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