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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 7h

Ite domum saturae, venit Hesperus, ite capellae.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 8h

Our thoughts are losing depth, soon they will fold into each other, into flatness, into nothing but surface. Our ship will fold like a cardboard file and the noises of our minds compress into a disc of shining black, spinning in eternity...

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 8h

They'll play Carnival of Light and it will just sound like a horse.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 8h

Wikipedia: "He sat quietly, day after day, in a chair by a window, smiling patiently from time to time at those about him, turning the pages of a book of fairy tales that seemed to give him a definite pleasure, and greeting with a fugitive gleam of recognition certain of his more intimate friends."

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 8h

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Edward MacDowell
Woodland Sketches
James Barbagallo, piano

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 8h

Customer buys John Thompson's Piano Course Bk 1
me: I learned piano from this book, more than 50 years ago, just 20 minutes walk from here. And now I play piano in the church, 5 minutes walk in the other direction.

two men are standing in a crowd and one of them is saying " you need to get out more "

ALT: two men are standing in a crowd and one of them is saying " you need to get out more "

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 8h

Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.

Wahey!!! It's Buddo, the Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 9h

We have it here—I'll put it aside for you.

Mad Broke GIF

Alt: Tall man berates banger with branch

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 9h

First interview with Krasznahorkai after winning the Nobel.

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First reactions | László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 | Telephone interview

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 12h

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

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László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12h

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel prize in literature.

In our archive, from 2014:

‘My name is Róbert Valzer and I like walking, not that I have anything to do with the famous Robert Walser, nor do I think it strange that walking should be my favourite hobby.’

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László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes · Story: ‘There Goes Valzer’

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The New Universal Solar Calendar @calendarsolar.bsky.social · 11h

Day of the Blood Sun

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

¿Dónde está?

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Agustina Pérez @maguspe.bsky.social · 14h

Despertad, cantores:
acaben los ecos,
empiecen las voces.

ANTONIO MACHADO

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

According to Google Translate, the title of the novel means "Buns There".
SAY NO MORE
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

BBC News:
Krasznahorkai's most recent satirical novel, Zsömle Odavan, returns to Hungary.

The protagonist is 91-year-old Uncle Józsi Kada, who has a secret claim to the throne but has gone to great lengths to disappear from the world.

SOLD.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

"On the sixth day, there are no howling winds or sunlight. Now subsisting on raw potatoes, the daughter refuses to eat or talk, seemingly resigning to her fate. The father appears to follow, not finishing his potato and sitting with his daughter in silence."
In other words: BANGER.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

"Fans of Tarr’s somber and sedate films will know what they are in for and will no doubt find the time well spent. Others might grow weary of the characters as they dress in their ragged clothes, eat boiled potatoes with their fingers, fetch water, clean their bowls, chop wood and feed the horse."

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

"Fans of Tarr’s somber and sedate films will know what they are in for and will no doubt find the time well spent. Others might grow weary of the characters as they dress in their ragged clothes, eat boiled potatoes with their fingers, fetch water, clean their bowls, chop wood and feed the horse."

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

It must be over ten years since I went with a Hungarian friend to see The Turin Horse. Towards the end, she whispered unnecessarily loudly "I wonder what they're having for dinner next"

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

Ol' Krasznahorkai bagged the Nobel

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11h

I couldn't quite persuade him to have it simply "as it comes". He has not seen The Turin Horse, alas

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 12h

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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