"Bueno, van ya muchos dÃas De cansada carretera Y van ya muchos dÃas De viajes muy largos Y a menudo me digo: Punto final a esto Pero extraño viajar Y extraño las canciones
Nacà para cantar Pero no al viento o al espacio Sino al corazón de la gente Y a los oÃdos de la gente Es un don de Dios Y ruego por usarlo Y cantarle al corazón Y cantarle a los oÃdos"...more
While reading this book, at first I thought there was too much dedicated to Mrs. Winterson, the bad mother in the picture. But to tell you the truth, While reading this book, at first I thought there was too much dedicated to Mrs. Winterson, the bad mother in the picture. But to tell you the truth, the story gets incredibly surprising, especially because Jeanette, the writer, really does not know what is going to happen when she starts writing. So there is something which changes her during the writing of this book, and that is probably what I loved the most. Something that happens to her, happened to me while reading. I just felt life, going through, and the feeling of not really knowing where this life takes you, be it inside a book, o during a day or a year, and that is what being alive is all about. ...more
I have been looking around for books on twins, not the dark stories from the double, or dopplehanger myth, but real stories about actual twins. I founI have been looking around for books on twins, not the dark stories from the double, or dopplehanger myth, but real stories about actual twins. I found this book great on it being a memoir on the author's experience as an identical twin, but all the different aspects of it, from the cultural, to the personal, to the philosophical ones. I had read an extract from this book in which she talks about how seeing an old picture of a couple of women living together made her think that maybe her and her sister could live like that. I found that personally a bit creepy, but I think it is mostly for my own twin phobias. Anyway, I took a lot of good references, and I will keep searching for more books on the subject, since not all twins are the same, (twin joke!)...more
This was a surprise to me. I had never read Aciman, and these themes, exile, and memory, love, are themes I was looking to read about. I love his sensThis was a surprise to me. I had never read Aciman, and these themes, exile, and memory, love, are themes I was looking to read about. I love his sensitivity. He speaks a lot about how sometimes imagining a place where you can't return to is even more important than being in the place itself. How sometimes when you live in a place it is not a beatiful or feels as necessary as when you are remembering and missing that place. He has a strong relationship to Alexandria, where he is from, but where he has not lived in a long time. My favorite essay is In Search of Blue, which is about his relationship to the sea, about growing near the sea. Really, I just loved this book, and I intend to read more by Aciman....more
There are some wonderful moments here, Laing is always great in that she researches everything so much. I think her later books are much more solid inThere are some wonderful moments here, Laing is always great in that she researches everything so much. I think her later books are much more solid in the sense of how she combines memory with literature history, art, here I found myself having a harder time connecting with her. But her sensibility to all things art is already here, and the passing of time, history, writers lives (Virgina and Leonard Woolf, Iris Murdoch) , anthropology, geography, all comes together to reflect on the passing of time, and how our small selves sometimes forget how mortal we are, how short our time on earth is.
" But that's how we go, is it not, between nothing and nothing, along this strip of life, where the ragworts nod in the repeating breeze? Like a little strip of pavement above an abyss, Virginia Woolf once said. And if she's right, the only home we'll ever have is here. This is it, this spoiled earth. We crossed the river then and pulled away, and in the empty fields the lark still spilled its praise."...more
I am definitely on the Vivian Gornick side of life. In this book she speaks of the many times she has re-read books, and how she felt each time, in diI am definitely on the Vivian Gornick side of life. In this book she speaks of the many times she has re-read books, and how she felt each time, in different moments of her life, the things she discovered differently in each reading. You know how some people find their self knowledge in practices, maybe in yoga or therapy, maybe in budism or whatever. Well, Gornick finds it in literature. She finds answers to her questions, she discovers things about herself. Every time I read a book of hers I feel she has found another clue about what it is to be in the world, to be human. She recognizes herself and others and finds connections when she reads. This is just such a perfect combination, this sort of memoir and literary criticism, she just keeps getting better. Or maybe I just love her more and more....more
Es un libro corto, pero para mà grande en simbolismo, en lo especial que me parece. Primero, es una amistad entre dos escritoras, una mexicana, y una Es un libro corto, pero para mà grande en simbolismo, en lo especial que me parece. Primero, es una amistad entre dos escritoras, una mexicana, y una argentina, que yo no tenÃa idea que existÃa, y que me encanta haberla descubierto. Cada una, cuando habla de su ciudad, las describen como me las imagino, y como siguen siendo cada una en este presente.
Tamara: "En sÃntesis, estamos contentos, adoramos esta ciudad puta que provoca deseos interminables de caminar. La gente está bastante caÃda por el drama económico pero de todos modos se divierte." (Buenos Aires ahora mismo!)
Desfilan amigos escritores, (Enrique Lihn, Alejandro Rossi, Josefina Ludmer) Es un intercambio que la verdad me vuelve loca, los viajes, las ganas de conseguir apoyo para un viaje u otro, y el deseo por sobre todo de seguir comunicándose, y seguir escribiendo. Muy precioso. ...more
"Ah, esos estados que nunca nombramos, esas eminentes situaciones del alma, ah esos intervalos del espÃritu, ah esas minúsculas fallas que son el pan cotidiano de mis horas, ah ese pueblo repleto de dones, -son siempre las mismas palabras que me sirven y verdaderamente no parezco moverme mucho en mi pensamiento, pero me muevo más que ustedes en realidad, barbas de años, cerdos pertinentes, maestros del verbo falso, fornicadores de retratos, folletinistas, rastreros, bastantes, entomólogos, plaga de mi lengua."
I've been reading this book on and off for a few months now. And all I can say is that I don't feel up to the task. I am one of those obsessive readerI've been reading this book on and off for a few months now. And all I can say is that I don't feel up to the task. I am one of those obsessive readers who will try anything, but these are notebooks, and I think they are for someone more knowledgeable of all thoughts Weil. I would prefer to read her as she was published, not as her thoughts came and went. She is an incredible thinker, and I think she mentions God in every paragraph, or at least in every page. She connects everything through god and she was austere and just incredible. I will keep reading her, as difficult as this book was for me. Because I think she is just so unique, this mystic incredible woman and philosopher, whose life was just as intense as her writing is. And maybe when I have read more, I will come back to these notebooks, and try again. ...more
Loading...
