Some good finds at PFB today.
// Genji Days by Edward G. Seidensticker. Seidensticker’s diary from the years when he was translating The Tale of Genji. I’ve only read the Waley translation but I imagine the challenges they both faced were very similar.
// Decreation by Anne Carson. Poetry, essays, opera. I will quote part of the back cover blurb: “…writing in forms as varied as opera libretto, screenplay, poem, oratorio, essay, shot list, and rapture. As she makes her way through these forms she slowly dismantles them, and in doing so seeks to move through the self, to its undoing.”
I’m ready to be undone.
// Vertigo by W.G. Sebald. Looks unread, its condition essentially brand new. There was an Indigo Books bookmark in it so I imagine it was bought by mistake or given to someone who didn’t want it and was immediately sold.
My Lem collection. A pretty good selection of cover designs I think. Except for Solaris, that one is boring. I need to replace it with a better edition.
If life gives you Lem make Lemonade.
Reading this with a friend as part of the 99PI read along. Savouring it slowly, a hundred or so pages a month for 2024
Currently reading: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 📚
I’m a big fan of Stanislav Lem. I’ve been slowly picking up all his work in English and now I’ve got a little backlog of unread books by him. Decided to start on this one and make a little dent in that pile.
Currently reading: Eden by Stanislaw Lem 📚
Reading for a local bookclub!
Currently reading: All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse 📚
