Dezember 29th, 2008 — 5:12pm
He watched Broadway float into the curved window and felt as if blocks of time and space had come loose and drifted. The misplaced heartland hotel. The signs for Mita, Midori, Kirin, Magno, Suntory – words that were part of some synthetic mass language, the esperanto of jet lag. And the tower under construction across the street, webbed and draped against the weather, figures moving fleetly past gaps in the orange sheeting. He saw them clearly now, three or four kids playing on the girders, making the building seem a ruin, an abandonment. (p. 23)
People with supermarket carts. When did these things come out of the stores and into the streets? She saw these things everywhere, pushed, dragged, lived in, fought over, unwheeled, bent, rolling haywire, filled with living trivia, the holistic dregs of everything that is correctly put. She talked to the woman in the plastic bag, offering to get a shopping cart for her.
[…]
It was a different language completely, unwritable and interior, the rag-speak of shopping carts and plastic bags, the language of soot, and Karen had to listen carefully to the way the woman dragged a line of words out of her throat like hankies tied together and then she tried to go back and reconstruct. (p. 180)
Besprechung
Kommentare deaktiviert für De·constru·ire | Category: ?? ????? ????? | Schlagwörter: English, Literatur, New York, Sprache
Dezember 27th, 2008 — 11:02pm
Don DeLillo: Mao II
Vintage U.K., London 1992
12. Auflage 2004
beg, bee: 09.12.2008, 26.12.2008
„[T]he withheld work of art is the only eloquence left.“ (p. 67)
„Beckett is the last writer to shape the way we think and see. After him, the major work involves midair explosions and crumbling buildings. This is the new tragic narrative.“ (p. 157)
250 Seiten, Taschenbuch
engl.-sprachig
Roman, Literatur, Postmoderne, Nordamerika
Kommentare deaktiviert für mmviii.xv | Category: Libri L | Schlagwörter: Gesellschaft, Literatur, Medien
Dezember 14th, 2008 — 9:21pm
Thomas Bernhard: Ereignisse
Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. 1994
2. Auflage 1997
beg, bee: 13.12.2008, 13.12.2008
72 Seiten, Taschenbuch
dt.-sprachig
Prosa, Literatur, Deutschland, Österreich
Kommentare deaktiviert für mmviii.xiv | Category: Libri L | Schlagwörter: Gesellschaft, Literatur
Dezember 11th, 2008 — 7:00pm
Bypassing literature - ein Bypass für die Literatur
Ein Ort für Künstler, Filmschaffende, Literaten, Romantiker, Nachtschwärmer, Computernerds und Teeliebhaber. Mitten in Prenzlauer Berg:
Tee- und Kunsthaus Tschaikowsky
Die Programmankündigung der Lesung findet sich hier.
4 comments » | Category: Billed, Miscellaneous | Schlagwörter: Berlin, Literatur
Dezember 11th, 2008 — 6:54pm
Anna Katterfeld: Die Stadt der Barmherzigkeit
Anker-Verlag, Bremen 1930
beg, bee: 10/2008, 04.12.2008
Anrührend schildert die Anna Katterfeld Bilder aus Vater Bodelschwinghs Leben und Lebenswerk, wie der Untertitel das Buch faßt… baltische Erzieherin…
224 Seiten, Festeinband
dt.-sprachig
Biographie, Bethel, Christentum
Kommentare deaktiviert für mmviii.xiii | Category: Libri L | Schlagwörter: Berlin, Geschichte, Religion