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Sewer Pirouette ⒶLeon Trotski - Fascisme, wat het is en hoe het te bestrijden
Klassieke bundel* van Trotski over het fascisme, hoofdzakelijk geschreven ten tijde van de vorige keer dat het in Europa de overhand kreeg.
Doordat de teksten voor WO II geschreven zijn, wordt de analyse overtuigender.
Trotski legt inderdaad uit wat fascisme is en doet dat op een heldere manier. Dat is wel eens verfrissend in deze tijd waar het is doodgeanalyseerd door historici, liberalen, psycho-analytici, literaire figuren enz enz.
Hij is ook helder in hoe het bestreden moet worden. Deels ben ik het met hem eens (fasco's slaan - kan gewoon) Deels niet. Hij blijft de revolutionair marxist van voor de bullshitbanen die nu een groot deel van de werkende klasse ketenen. Bovendien heb ik het niet zo op revolutionaire voorhoedes. Ik leid mezelf wel, dank u.
De uitgever voegt er een woord vooraf aan toe van 18 pagina's wat aan de ene kant zinvol is (de historische schets) aan de andere kant -meer dan een kwart van de bladzijden zijn nu niet door Trotski geschreven.
*Lees een niet door uitgeverij Proletaris aangepaste versie hier: https://www.marxists.org/nederlands/trotski/1944/1944fascisme.htm
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Stephen Graham Jones - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
“What I am is the Indian who can’t die.
I’m the worst dream America ever had.”
Set mostly in the final stages of the genocide that birthed the empire of blood, the horrorstory Graham Jones has crafted is great writing.
I won’t spoil but heaps of praise and highly recommended.
Even to people who are not into supernatural horror. Because in a way, from a certain perspective it is no supernatural horror, but a true crime story of that despised empire.
Just look for Marias Massacre, for instance here:
https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jan/23
Up there with his best, which for me are ‘Growing Up Dead in Texas’ and ‘The Least of My Scars’.
Really. Read this book.
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Chang-Rae Lee - On Such a Full Sea
Open ended, so in a sense the story leads nowhere. Besides that the structure is quite distinct. It’s like the writer had a couple of dystopian tableaus developed and then thought of a way to connect them. It works, but it creates a curious rhythm of slow very detailed parts and quite fast moving connecting parts
This might be the reason I relistened this book again.
In the tableaus Lee creates opportunities to write things that make me think. Like you're most likely to fail when you are closest to finally satisfying a desire as in that moment you are the furthest removed from yourself.
Really liked this, but can’t say I would recommend it to everyone.
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Johan Egerkrans - Norse Gods
The stories I know well are once again retold. Not in a particular spectacular way.
This is more than compensated by the illustrations, the reason for this book. They might be overly romantic to some, they are to me every now and then, but they are gloriously beautiful in their romantic excess.
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Kamel Daoud - The Meursault Investigation
What if your brother was killed. Shot on the beach on a searing hot day. What if this happened to you when you were still a boy in a single parent family without other siblings.
The brother-formed-gap might become the black hole around which everyone and everything in your life revolves.
And then to find out that the murderer has written a novel in which you get to know his soul ‘like you were an angel’ but in which your brother’s name is not even mentioned. Musa Uld el-Assas, your brother, reduced to a stage prop called ‘The Arab’.
“The whole world knew the murderer, his face, his look, his portrait, and even his clothes, except the two of us! The Arab’s mother and her son [...] Two poor, pitiful natives who had read nothing and put up with everything. Like donkeys.”
Kamel Daoud answered Camus brilliantly, I think. Mirroring the story of Meursault, not too forced, not too loose and touching the mirror at several points.
This being said, a feminist rewrite would be great.
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Merryn Dineley - Barley, Malt and Ale in the Neolithic
In the six chapters of this thesis Dineley argues convincingly that:
• It is possible to brew a decent ale that holds good for months with techniques available in the Neolithic
• The material culture pattern for brewing activity can be established in prehistory from the fertile Crescent to Orkney
• Women were the very first grain cultivators and processors and with their knowledge of ritualized skills held positions of status and significance.
• Neolithic ‘rectangular wooden buildings’ can be reinterpretated as the places where grains were processed into malt and ale. That these burn down every now and then is also explained without need of the -imho ludicrous- hypotheses of ritual burning of so many buildings.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this thesis, it is well written and balanced.
This podcast let me to her work and it is really a joy to listen to her and her husband Graham
https://prehistoryguys.podbean.com/e/podcast-22-beer-in-the-neolithic-merryn-graham-dineley/
Direct link to the mp3: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/s8y1hb/p_open_s_600aebff0af9155b5c6af4dc_e_sws_podbean_com_2F215b6ab0-364f-530f-a21e-d0bfbe0cd6c8_media.mp3
Merryn seems to be a bit less active on her blog nowadays, but still very interesting: http://merryn.dineley.com/?m=1
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Last month in #WatWouterLas26
I read everyday, my streak is now 38.
With respect to my Top5 reading goals for this year:
1) > 15.000 pages
2) 20 books with over 500 pages
3) 6 books about megaliths
4) 5 prompts from the Leftist nonfiction challenge
5) 4 books about Scottish Clearances
1) at 7287 pages, so way ahead
2) read 5 sofar, so on track
3) is turning into 6 books about the Neolithic, but at 50% already
4) nope nothing as yet
5) read 1 so far, so on track
Started with the amazing literary cannibalism challenge, which wasn't in my top 5, but secretly is.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/e95eb2e7-fb9e-4aa3-8eb5-597d9903dc4e
I'll be in hospital and sick a lot this summer, so reading the big books might turn out to be quite difficult, but we'll see.
Use the hashtag #WatWouterLas26 or find me on Storygraph to see the list of books sofar and read reviews. https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/wouter_pieterse
Albert Camus - De Vreemdeling
De vacuümcatastrofe is het verschil tussen het empirisch vastgestelde en het theoretisch berekende niveau van de vacuümenergie, de energie van de lege ruimte.
Hier moet ik aan denken bij het lezen van ‘de vreemdeling’.
Een studie van leegte waarin op één moment een gruwelijke, catastrofale daad plaatsvindt. Zonder beweegredenen, zonder oorzaak. Ervoor en erna strekt het niets zich uit. Camus beschrijft het op een manier waar ik erg van houd. De afgemeten zinnen doen me aan Bordewijk denken. Dat is altijd fijn.
In ‘The Meursault investigation’ wekt Kamel Daoud het slachtoffer ‘de Arabier’ tot leven. ik kijk ernaar uit het te lezen in het kader van de literair kannibalisme challenge.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/e95eb2e7-fb9e-4aa3-8eb5-597d9903dc4e
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Iain M Banks - Feersum Endjinn
Not his best.
Iain M. Banks has a fantasy that now and the spirals almost out of control right into the trippy levels of scifi. When that is DMT-ish (short and very weird) I love it. Unfortunately Feersum Endjinn is more like taking just too little LSD - it works very long, but the weirdness stays just above 'base reality' ;-)
If you want scifi about people uploading themselves, try Greg Egan - Diaspora. If you want Banks' scifi (re)read the Culture novels. I know I will.
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