A surreal and beautiful exchange in isolation, translated by Alison Entrekin. “In the current scenario—which isolates everything, and everyone, between parentheses. Bodies and time.” Cue Miles Davis.
An amazing four minutes, but includes a “Making Of” feature and a brief video history on the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi, transient beauty.
Many are printable and encourage your sharing! Read widely, read richly.
“Through a plurality of women, including Adriana Cavarero, Hannah Arendt, and Ingeborg Bachmann, Ferrante explodes the singular ‘I’ who writes. . . . When we tell a story (our own or someone else’s), we are always, for better or worse, every piece of literature we have consumed.”
True, no one wants to turn anyone away from reading. But YA is still a developmental level of reading, and there are coming-of-age novels, as Jiordan Castle says, that aspire and succeed to more.
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