Adam MoodyNov 6, 2022

Alrighty Mastodonians, let’s get a fucking thread going. What exciting stuff is everyone reading/has read recently? I’m currently reading these two, recently finished Anne Carson’s Sappho translation and Marguerite Duras’s THE SQUARE.

Can’t believe this site is making me use hashtags… #books #goodbooks #pretentiousbooks #notboringbooks

Show threadNicolas Leblanc
@ToTheHappyNone I'm currently going back and forth between What Maisie Knew (#HenryJames) and Clef de la Poésie (#JeanPaulhan), after having finished with Formation (#PierreGuyotat) and the pictured volume of #VilliersdelIsleAdam
Nov 6, 2022 at 11:44pmWeb
Show threadAdam MoodyNov 6, 2022
@ngrl I nearly bought my third Guyotat (IN THE DEEP) but decided I should finally read one of the ones I own (EDEN and COMA) first.
Show threadNicolas LeblancNov 6, 2022
@ToTheHappyNone Wondering how Guyotat works in English... Guy's a stylist of note, but shorn of his cadence there remains little of interest to me.
Show threadAdam MoodyNov 7, 2022
@ngrl From looking at and reading about EDEN, I’m very interested in a novel as an accumulation of details and fragments. Seems like Robbe-Grillet’s MO taken to an intense extreme.
Show threadNicolas LeblancNov 7, 2022

@ToTheHappyNone I have not read that one, but it comes enfolded in admiring apparatus from Barthes, Sollers, Leiris in its French edition, so I will give it its due read some day.

The Tomb was rough sledding for me. "Events falling steadily like rain" said Foucault. But "boring as rain" a saying goes...

Show threadDaniel HartleyNov 7, 2022
@ToTheHappyNone @ngrl I first discovered Guyotat through Badiou (this seminar series specifically), but I’m yet to make it through Tombeau…and have tried a couple of times.
Show threadNicolas LeblancNov 7, 2022

@djhartley @ToTheHappyNone Admittedly, anything I could say against this novel could be thought of as a feature and not a glitch.

I have not read anything by Badiou, yet: my philosophy education is very much a work in progress.