#drndic

[boldlymagnificentperson]

13esima: S. Perrella, Doppio scatto, Bompiani

Claudio Cherin recensisce questo libro a metà tra la fotografia e la prosa, il libro di viaggi e una raccolta di riflessioni. Al centro Napoli. Ecco la recensione di Claudio. Uno dei migliori di Silvio Perrella, che si intitola Doppio scatto, è un perfetto haiku in prosa – oltre ad essere un libro di viaggio, un libro di appunti mentali, un libro di itinerari – che coglie le voci distanti e…

[davidlavieri]

My recollections are not illusions. They are not the past. My memories are my present.

Daša Drndić, Trieste

[luckybitch1]

dasa drndic mm mhm

[sacredwhores]

Pasts are free-thinking, pasts like to roam, pasts traverse borders, glittering gaily, pasts are bold travellers, sliding through their own molehill-like labyrinths.

Daša Drndić, Trieste

[poetsandwriters]

The late Dasa Drndic...said to me: 'Fuck story.' She meant, forget what you think you want to say. Forget what you know. Look at form, find the voice, let it roam freely and follow it. It will tell you the narrative.

Maaza Mengiste, in this week’s Ten Questions; read the rest at pw.org!

[oacasodaspalavras]

Dasa Drndic, Belladonna, 2012

[litafficionado]

“It is not my job to interpret what I write. I find it amusing, even comic, if not ridiculous, when at readings, especially of poetry, authors give a short “introduction” to their work. So that the audience would “get it.” So that there would be no misunderstanding. So that the listeners would grasp exactly what and how the “creator” wants. I love open endings, generally speaking, and not only in literature. The undefined, the unrestricted offers freedom of thought and freedom of action. The existence of didactic, logorrheic scribblers, though, is legitimate. They are marketable and easily digested. The problem is their metastatic proliferation at the expense of the ever-diminishing thinking species.” -Daša Drndić, in a conversation

[elizabethanism]

“As we endeavor to distance ourselves from our torments”

~ E. M. Cioran

[Epigraph to “EEG” by Dasa Drndic]

[lockdownbooks]

Doppelgänger By Dasa Drndic

160 pages. 

Two elderly people, Artur and Isabella, meet and have a passionate sexual encounter on New Year’s Eve. Details of the lives of Artur, a retired Yugoslav army captain, and Isabella, a Holocaust survivor, are revealed through police dossiers. 

As they fight loneliness and aging, they take comfort in small things: for Artur, a collection of 274 hats; for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Later, we meet the ill-fated Pupi, who dreamed of becoming a sculptor but instead became a chemist and then a spy. As Eileen Battersby wrote, “As he stands, in the zoo, gazing at a pair of rhinos, in a city most likely present-day Belgrade, this battered Everyman feels very alone: ‘I would like to tell someone, anyone, I’d like to tell someone: I buried Mother today.’” Pupi sets out to correct his family’s crimes by returning silverware to its original Jewish owners through the help of an unlikely friend, a pawnbroker. Described by Dasa Drndic as “my ugly little book,” Doppelgänger was her personal favorite.

Amazon price: $2.99 on Kindle and $10.19 paperback. £2.50 on Kindle and £8.28 paperback. 

[luckybitch1]

[obsessioncollector]

Andreas Ban had read somewhere that wars are orgies of forgetfulness. The twentieth century has archived vast catacombs, tunnels of information in which researchers get lost and in the end abandon their research, catacombs that ever fewer people enter. Stored away — forgotten. The twentieth century, a century of great tidying that ends in cleansing; the twentieth century, a century of cleansing, a century of erasure. Language perhaps remains, but it too is crumbling. A great burden falls on twentieth-century man and he drags himself out from under it, damaged. Did Pliny write somewhere that nothing in us is as fragile as memory, that dubious ability which builds and rebuilds a person. Whom should he now ask? How can he sort out that family defeat? Family secrets surface unexpectedly and too late. Whenever a person wishes to remember, up comes oblivion (or death), ready to pounce.

Daša Drndić, Belladonna, trans. Celia Hawkesworth

[sacredwhores]

We obediently make ourselves comfortable in that endlessly terrifying space of existence, seeking what we already have.

Daša Drndić, Trieste

[shugademus-fbandt]

knausgaard 6

sasa drndic - trieste

Girl a - abigail dean

Dry - jane harper

Rizzio - denise mina

Thousand ships - haynes

4321, auster

Robert Harris (Enigma, Pompeii, Imperium)

my sister the serial killer, braithwaite

The others

Kieslowski: Three Colours: BLue

Vagabond - varda

Chimes at midnight - welles

Annette - carax

sans soleil - marker

handmaiden (korean)

first cow - reichardt

oostende (MU.ZEE)

Kirchner Nolde @ Stedelijk

Sol lewitt @ musée juif

[jcsolomons]

Jeff VanderMeer recommends: Tatyana Tolstaya, Dasa Drndic, Joy Williams, Daisy Johnson, Catherine Lacey, Tamas Dobozy, Jenny Hval, Forrest Gander, Colson Whitehead, Maryse Meijer, Virginie Despentes, Ottessa Moshfegh, Carmen Maria Machado, Kai Ashante Wilson, Fred Moten, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Marlon James, Philippe Claudel, Rachel Cusk, Kelly Link, Nnedi Okorafor, Kristen Roupenian, Tommy Pico and N. K. Jemisin. Meanwhile, Brian Evenson.

[finita-la-commedia]

Life is made up of separation ... all made up of bright or dark gradual separations.

Dasa Drndic, in the interview with Dustin Illingworth  

[luckybitch1]

i fantasize joining a convent a lot first of all it includes room and board and on top of that travel right you meditate its perfectly acceptable to just shut the fuck up for hours and read all the fucking time. what i would do is id gut a bible and use the binding to hide that im reading dasa drndic novellas. id definitely find the one other novitiate in her 20s and have an affair on the DL. theyre going to be like who the fuck is leaving cigarette butts in the chapel...? but ill just go to confession and like all is well. maybe the priest will find that hot you know hes like in his forties, bisexual, we probably vibe. what straight man spends 5mil on a pipe organ? yes its virgin behavior but tbh hes DTF dykey nun. also the old school drip and underneath i still have a kuromi tattoo and juicy couture panties. all in all its a good plan B