If i had a million dollars, i'd have gotten these just now
Yes it's kind of like a therapeutic exercise to pretend i'm getting new stuff all the time, i'll post about whatever catches my eye, whenever they do
The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis Hardcover – June 12 2018 - 992 pages
also from Brazil i need to gather up all of Clarice Lispector, and there's another biggie who's name eludes me now, i'll figure it out sometime
Marguerite Duras The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner Hardcover – Nov. 14 2017 - 504 pages
My only Duras possession is the film Hiroshima mon amour which she did with Alain Resnais, she also made her own films which aren't at all well represented in the english speaking home video market, once i tried to watch one on YouTube but .... yeah it never feels right to watch a movie on my computer screen
Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback – Deckle Edge, Nov. 26 2002 - 1216 pages
the 1st novel in the 11th century .... Japan is an amazing place for all sorts of things, not ready for manga yet, i see a lot of Haruki Murakami around, maybe Kafka on the Shore too, but Genji, lord have mercy - in a movie trailer voice - "before there was Don Quiixote there was GENJI"
