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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

Let me recommend good music (if you enjoy things that are good).

Golden Reviser, by Erie Choir

9 track album

eriechoir.bandcamp.com

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 1d

“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.”

Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a tough one!

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

It is enjoyable!

Have you seen Dead and Buried?

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

Wait: if it is true you haven’t seen this: dawg it’s great.

Psycho II (1983)

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill ag...

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

The Vanishing (1988)

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abdu...

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

Tourist Trap (1979)

After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt if the next Faulkner is anywhere, they are parking rental cars outside a small regional airport

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 1d

"The past is never dead; it isn't even past."

"Sir, nevertheless, you returned the car after five, so we do have to charge you for a second day. Company policy."

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Judson Hamilton @judsonhamilton.bsky.social · 2d

Totally, and I loved the black mass market versions, too.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

One of my life's little tragedies is a about 10 years ago I left my high school copy of Absalom, Absalom! in a rental car at a small regional airport.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Also big fan of the little mass market ones they used to have.

A shelf of Faulkner novels organized by edition.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

This is what books should look like.

Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 2d

This is the ideal book design aesthetic. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Vintage Books edition of Absalom, Absalom!; heavy gold metallic paint, cursive-vs-all-caps-serifed font, and rural public domain archive photographs.

Vintage Books edition of Light in August; heavy gold metallic paint, cursive-vs-all-caps-serifed font, and rural public domain archive photographs.

Vintage Books edition of As I Lay Dying; heavy gold metallic paint, cursive-vs-all-caps-serifed font, and rural public domain archive photographs.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with this completely and totally. One of the most correct things I've seen on the Internet today.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

I'm thankful for translators like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social who make literature like this available to me.

You have no idea how dreary my day would be without the underappreciated work of translators, endlessly opening doors on my rude little life.

David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be too much of a gooby, but I love Krasznahorkai's work and am thrilled to see him win.

This has all has put me in such a good mood this morning.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 2d

This is among his slimmest and a great starting point. It’s fantastic.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

I love this book.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 2d

sanderling inn, duck, north carolina, 1985

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

"I plan on continuing the program's storied tradition of apocalyptical bleakness."

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Check out Gloomy Saja

M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel-laureate Krasznahorkai's archive (his "Vorlass") is at the Austrian National Library — "84 Archivboxen, 12 Kisten" www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/l... Including some of his diaries, apparently:

Some pages from Nobel laureate Krasznahorkai László's diaries.

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David Connerley Nahm @dcnahm.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be too much of a gooby, but I love Krasznahorkai's work and am thrilled to see him win.

This has all has put me in such a good mood this morning.

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 2d

the absolutely terrific @ndbooks.bsky.social is responsible for every happy english speaking nerd (on this continent) right now

László Krasznahorkai

New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Jan 31

Rather apt passage from the opening of Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance

To tell the truth, none of this really surprised anyone any more since rail travel, like everything else, was subject to the prevailing conditions: all normal expectations went by the board and one's daily habits were disrupted by a sense of ever-spreading all-consuming chaos which rendered the future unpredictable, the past unrecallable and ordinary life so haphazard that people simply assumed that whatever could be imagined might come to pass, that it there were only one door in a building it would no longer open, that wheat would grow head downwards into the earth not out of it, and that, since one could only note the symptoms of disintegration, the reasons for it remaining unfathomable and inconceivable, there was nothing anyone could do except to get a tenacious grip on anything that was still tangible; which is precisely what people at the village station continued to do when, in hope of taking possession of the essentially limited seating to which they were entitled, they stormed the carriage doors, which being frozen up proved very difficult to open.

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 2d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Bill Tipper @tripleblip.bsky.social · 2d

In stadia across the world tonight:
KRASZ-Na
HOR-Kai!
CLAP
CLAP
CLAPCLAPCLAP

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