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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 9h

Very promising!

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 15h

Fresh from the press and my latest addition to the Gertrude Stein pile. Probably the 113th book in my home library written by (or about) the matriarch of Modernism.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 3d

I’m ecstatic!

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 3d

Por La melancolía de la resistencia o Tango satánico. Saludos.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 3d

Come on board the Kraszna train, darlings. You won’t regret it.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 5d

Ecstatic!

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 5d

Worked all day. Went to a bookstore. Both titles were sold out. Drove to another. Found them a few minutes ago. Can’t read them now. Still happy to have them.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 8d

Pausing the Dostoevsky read through I started at the beginning of the year (I need a short break from his voice). Up next: the complete fiction of Albert Camus.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 8d

How does one engage with a writer whose body of work seems to represent the epitome of solipsistic creation? His purported novels are no more than countless vignettes conjoined in a universe of hopelessness, solitude, and total indifference. Award the Nobel Prize to Botho Strauß.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 9d

I could “attempt” at reading the text in Galician, but like you said, her use of language is not traditional (at least in many of the poems), so I stick with Spanish translations. She’s phenomenal.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 9d

She’s recorded in a tongue on the verge of collapse a litany of transposable voices and disjointed perspectives that reject Manichaean dualities, all to create the foundations of refurbished identities that can neither be named nor described. Award the Nobel Prize to Chus Pato.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 10d

In his exceedingly long poetic sequences –always epic in scale– polyphony can turn into a cacophony of everyday voices as he renders, in a most accessible way, a peculiar migrant experience while expanding the possibilities of the poem. Award the Nobel Prize to Π.O. (Pi O).

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 11d

My goodness. You are too kind. I really appreciate your words. I’ve been off for a couple of weeks (dealing with a personal tragedy), but I’ll share a few (new) names as of tomorrow.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you. I hope so too.

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Sep 8

My favorite of hers (so far) is Flights. I haven’t read anything by her since 2019, but very curious about these 2. She’s solid. Maybe is not your kind of author and that’s ok. Happens to me with many that most people find extraordinary and I just feel like I missed something too.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you, Karen. I didn’t know that about The Emposium. Sounds amazing. I’m not the biggest fan of Mann, but I still want to read his Doctor Faustus. Having said that, his Snow chapter in TMM is top notch.

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yesterday’s purchases… I had read everything by Olga Tokarczuk available in English translation before she got the big prize, but nothing that was translated after it, so I need to remedy that. And The Sea, the Sea has been on my radar for many years. It’ll be my first Murdoch.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Sep 6

Did I drive like a maniac to my local bookstore upon learning that Eimear McBride’s latest novel hit the shelves on this side of the Atlantic?
Is the night dark and full of terrors?🙄

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you. I really appreciate the support. I hope you’ll find some new names among this year’s selection. There will be very few and somewhat unknown outside their countries of origin.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Sep 4

His intellectually rigorous novels —mental abodes of a late Modernist that may produce in the reader a permanent feeling of vertigo—, masterfully explore the complexities of entropic realities, even through the consciousness of a disembodied entity. Award the Nobel Prize to Joseph McElroy.