Çöl J.M.G. le Clézio
Hepimiz çocuk olduk...ve hepimizin yalnızlık anlarında mırıldandığı tek sözcüklü şarkıları oldu...dikkatimizi celb eden bir sözcük...-itiraf edelim hadi- anlayabildiğimiz o bir tek sözcüğün üzerine inşa ettiğimiz çocukluk şarkılarımız oldu...bir oyunun derinliğinde kaybolduğumuzda mesela...okuldan eve dönerken tek sözcükten oluşan bir şarkının teskin ediciliğini hissettik...bir narkoz haliydi bu, arzulanan bir uyuşukluk hali...bugün buradan bakınca bu şeklide açıklayabiliyorum çocukluğunuzun tek sözcüklü şarkılarını...
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"In Désert, a novel written in the third singular person form" kitapla ilgili İngilizce bir makaleye bakarken basit ama tanımlayıcı biraz da etkileyici bulduğum bir ara cümleyi alma ihtiyacı duydum. (Desert aslında kitabın ismi ama kitabın yazıldığı metafizik mekan ve imkan olarak kabul ediyorum burada.) Çölde...yani üçüncü tekil şahıs ağzıyla yazılmış bu romanda... çölde ne zaman üçüncü şahıs olmayı başarabilir insan? Çölde insan -belki de- kılçıksız birinci tekil şahıstır. Ben'in 'ben' olarak ben'in içine yerleştiği belki biraz da ben'in sınırlarından taştığı, zaman eğrisinden uzaklaşan bir izlektir. Bu yüzden anlatıcının üçüncü tekil şahıs olmasına bu kadar takıldım.
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Yazacaklarım kitabı anlatır cümleler olmayacak... kitabı kişisel anlamlandırma çabam olarak okumasını isterim...
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Hikaye -aslında iki var kitapta ama ben Lalla'nın hikayesini tercih ediyorum. Nur'un hikayesindeki zikir sahnesini ise sanırım hiç unutamayacağım- çölde başlar ve çölde biter.
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Çöl bir uzam, bir zaman, bir yaşam...fizik olmanın yanısıra fizik ötesini de kurcalayan... her insanın içinde önemli bir kısmı işgal eden, her insana bir işgal vaat eden bir kelime: çöl. Güzergâhsız, yolsuz, zamansız...ama ışıklı: gündüz ve gece...ay ve
Sayfam; https://youtu.be/7BTFTrrVaL0?si=aP1w_Pveiz38Rk0Z
Dostoyevski'nin ikinci kitabı, Öteki bir diğer adıyla İkiz oldukça okuyucu okurken zorlayan bir eser. Kitabın dilinin ağır olmasının haricinde anlatım tekniğiyle Dostoyevski seviyeyi bir tık yukarı taşımış.
Bu anlatım tekniği "Limited Third-Person Point of View" olarak isimlendiriliyor, videoda detaylı bir şekilde konuya giriş yaptım. Gerçekten okuyucu terleten bir teknik özellikle kitabın ana karakteri (Golyadkin) akıl hastasıysa bu tekniğin kullanımı sabırsız okuyucuları kitabı tamamlamadan raflara kaldırmasına sebep oluyor.
İlk eseri tam bir baş yapıt olan Dostoyevski, Öteki kitabıyla birazcık dönemin eleştirmenleri tarafından eleştirilmiştir. Ama bu anlatım dilinden kaynaklı değil, tamamen kurgunun uç noktalarda gezmesiyle ilgilidir. Bazı okuyucuların kitabı anlamadığı için bu eleştirmenlerle aynı fikirde olduğu zannı seviyesi düşük bir analojidir.
Okuyucu klasik okurken haddini bilmeli,
Gelin videoda ne demek istediğime detaylıca bakalım.
Bu yaz yanınızdan ayırmak istemeyeceğiniz kitapları sizin için bir araya getirdik.
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John Williams
The Stoner by John Williams, it is lovely to go through ups and downs of Stoner's life as an English professor from the start of his journey till the end
If you are interested in American English literature
This book can help you in your reading and writing (especially the English students) and the love which is going on in the story makes you more interested in reading, so you won't get tired I guarantee that :)
Just in case my partner is also reading the same book so I can't wait to see his point of view
These are some parts which I chose from the book:
He said slowly, "you must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing.
These are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history remember that while you're trying to decide what to do."
In his forty-third year old William Stoner learned what others, much younger had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.
John Williams
The Stoner by John Williams, it is lovely to go through ups and downs of Stoner's life as an English professor from the start of his journey till the end
If you are interested in American English literature
This book can help you in your reading and writing (especially the English students) and the love which is going on in the story makes you more interested in reading, so you won't get tired I guarantee that :)
Just in case my partner is also reading the same book so I can't wait to see his point of view
These are some parts which I chose from the book:
He said slowly, "you must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing.
These are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history remember that while you're trying to decide what to do."
In his forty-third year old William Stoner learned what others, much younger had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.
My mother died today, maybe yesterday, I don't know.
(The stranger)
What's the point of living if life is so absurd? (Sisyphus said)
Life is meaningless but worth living.
According to Albert Camus, philosophy has only one problem and that is suicide. According to Camus, it is not possible to understand this world. When thought like this, existence is unnecessary and in this case suicide occurs, but according to Camus, suicide is not a solution to this. We are human beings and we search for the meaning of life, and this is where the concept of absurdism emerges. The dictionary meaning of absurdism is empty justification and does not comply with logic. Its philosophical meaning is that there is a break between human consciousness and the world. So, what are the triggering factors that reveal absurdism? Your life monotony, the passing of time, alienation, loneliness, anxiety and the inevitability of death.When we look at these factors, suicide seems attractive to us, but Albert Camus offers us three main ways to survive in life, the first of which is suicide. Existence is meaningless, then we should all perish, but Albert Camus expresses that suicide is an easy giving up. The second is to hope. It's like hoping that there is a creator. If there is a God who creates everyone, then life has a meaning or holding on to the existence of family and loved ones, but Camu rejects this too because Camu does not believe in God and our loved ones will die one day is an illusion for the last one, and the third one rebels.As an example, I would like to tell you about Albert Camus book Sisyphus said. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a king who rebelled against the gods and was punished by them. His punishment was to drag a huge rock to the top of the mountain, but the rock fell again
This is the third book which I have read that has been written by Dostoevsky, I have always found him to be an overrated writer..
His literary style, I would say is good enough but I have finally understood what makes Fyodor Dostoevsky such a genius creative person.. it is his foresight, his absolute and immaculate understanding of the human mind and psych...
I have read far more interesting literary texts and styles than this, however I have never been able to understand the unalloyed facts and side of human's nature until I came across this book and white nights..
In short..
I am delighted that I have fought my obduracy and decided to finally read the Russian writer's books..
I am more than thrilled to feast my eyes on his other work..
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Review 03/05/22: rtc, happy pub day!!
*****
04/05/22:
Thank you NetGalley for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Get ready for a google docs rant review kids, this is going to be a bumpy ride.
Never thought my rating of a book could change so much throughout reading it until I read this one, How To Be The Best Third-Wheel. AKA another reason why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover (because sometimes books with pretty covers turn out to be boring and a waste of your time!). I picked up HTBTBTW, thinking that I would read a fun rom-com about third wheeling and it delivered that, and it delivered even MORE of that and not in a good way. This book was so unnecessarily long, that I just couldn’t stand it anymore and started skimming the last 100 pages. Though, I must say, it did have a great dedication:
“To my love life- thank you for being so nonexistent that I had to write this.”
This book is about Lara Dela Cruz (what even is that name-) going on a vacation to the Philippines and returning back to school only to find out that all of the members of her girl gang have boyfriends now. Instead of being a normal person and a good friend, she treats them like shit for having boyfriends (????) and then plays the victim. I had an unpleasant experience with those kinds of people, so it was quite fun to read about (ironically I requested the book because I was third wheeling at school after my friend had a new boyfriend)!!!!! I just wanted to hit her with the back of the thickest book I own in my bookshelf. I know that it sounds malicious and weird but I really, really hated her. She was just this selfish, whiny and ungrateful 16 year-old who was not even close to being mature (or even pretending to be mature, for heaven’s sake). I’m not a psychologist
