Aimé Césaire is a Martinican poet and a politician whose express himself in French with Negro characteristics. He does things with words beyond my imagination. A true preacher of Black people. Very strong and decisive. We as Kurds, have a lot to learn from Black struggle. A colonized land means colonized minds also. We have to decolonize our minds first. We have to stop the alienation.
A must read.
This was freaking hard to read man. Should've gone with the tr translation but I just didn't want to. Just a reminder to myself: never EVER read books in translation if it's not originally English written...
Regular readers of Vladimir Nabokov are aware that his books are full of what I call “verbal acrobatics” as he is one of the few non-native English speakers who have mastered the language and can use it at a very high-level. He’s not only building exquisite plots but he also sets up lots of puzzles, challenges and games for the readers in his books.
However, Pale Fire goes to the very extreme in this aspect, since the whole book is an elaborate puzzle, to be solved by the reader and after more than 60 years since the book was first published, not all puzzles have been solved.
Structurally, it is an interesting book. There is a Foreword written by a Charles Kinbote, allegedly a visiting professor from the faraway country of Zembla, narrating how he came by with publishing a poem of 999 lines by the esteemed scholar John Shade, recently deceased.
The poem is fully included in the text, followed by around 180 pages of commentary and the book ends with extensive footnotes.
When you start reading the Foreword by Kinbote, the text steers you towards an implication that Charles Kinbote is actually the exiled King of Zembla. However, as you continue reading the text, something strange happens. It all depends on how you read the book. To understand what I really mean here, we have to visit one of the most enlightening books in this topic, namely Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery by Brian Boyd.
There are lots of academic papers about Pale Fire, but the book I mention here provides one of the most robust and extensive explanations of the book. Brian Boyd shows that there are various ways to read the book.
One can read the book sequentially, namely can read the Foreword, the Poem, the commentary and the footnotes in the order they are printed in the book.
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"And yet… AM has won, simply… he has taken his revenge… I have no mouth. And I must scream."
Even though this book probably includes more stories, I only read the I Have No Mouth story from a pdf and this is the only book that comes up when I search the story, so I will be only writing about this story and not the actual book.
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream is probably hands down the best sci-fi short story I've ever read along with "Answer" by Fredric Brown. It is very graphic, violent, raw and disgusting. Even though it makes me question the sanity of the writer as I read the graphic depictions of AM's torture of humans - or what's left of them - I cannot help but be amazed at how great the story is at making me feel such an inexplicable horror beyond imagination. It is very hard to make someone feel such an existential horror, especially through the medium of writing. And yet this story thoroughly encapsulates the feeling of utter despair in a time and world unimaginable to us for creatures that no longer can be called human. And despite all it has done, probably for the way he "feels" an immense hatred, the machine AM is merely a shadow of the worst parts of humanity despite surpassing its creators in the ways it can create wonders. The machine is more man than any of the humans left in the story for the way it seeks a meaningless revenge and plays with humans the way humans play with ants. Sadistic at best like a child-god.
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In Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry, as a romantic poet, he defends that poetry and poets are glorified, praised. Poet is like a prophet because like a prophet they observes and express what is beyond. According to him, poetry is the ultimate source and extends the meaning of imagination and expression. He believes that there is something coming from inside and poetry is the best tool to reflect those feelings externally. Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful and reveals the hidden wisdoms or truths. And he makes comparision between reason and imagination he says yes reason and logic is neccessary but without imagination you can't perceive things.
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actually I am not that much fan of watching series of films while I have chance to read the narration. (As I really fond of getting lost deep down in the imagination instead of producers or directors push me inside a frame which has limits.) However, I watched a few of Harry Potter series long time ago and I was really impressed like the people all over the world. But still, I keep tracing "the mainstream" behind because I don't feel like urgently reading the things when I am exposed to non-stop chats and spoilers about a book. So, here I bought the whole series two years ago and I have waited until this day to start from somewhere.
I really enjoyed the Philosopher's Stone and J.K Rowling's fluent narration, the first book is ermmm amazing and even beyond the imagination.
actually I am not that much fan of watching series of films while I have chance to read the narration. (As I really fond of getting lost deep down in the imagination instead of producers or directors push me inside a frame which has limits.) However, I watched a few of Harry Potter series long time ago and I was really impressed like the people all over the world. But still, I keep tracing "the mainstream" behind because I don't feel like urgently reading the things when I am exposed to non-stop chats and spoilers about a book. So, here I bought the whole series two years ago and I have waited until this day to start from somewhere.
I really enjoyed the Philosopher's Stone and J.K Rowling's fluent narration, the first book is ermmm amazing and even beyond the imagination.
