THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA was made into a movie, reset in England, with Kris Kristopherson and Sara Mills. I love the novel but have no opinion about the movi, which i saw once over 40 years ago, before i read the boook.
Lispector talks about her character Macabea in the only interview she gave to television: by TV cultura in Brazil. The other interview she provided is simpler and nowhere as deep as the famous one, and you can find "the" famous one on youtube with English subtitles by Penguin Editorial. Clarice is a northeastern, let's point out that the Portuguese colognization process started off in Northeast (Portugal got a tiny bit of land if compared to the amount his sister, Spain, got from the - spanish - Pope of the time of the discovery of the American continent, so Brazil would not be this big if it weren't for Portugal disrespect of "his Sister"s territory, little by little). In the Northeastern coast, Portugal couldn't find what they were looking for: gold. Once they found it in the Southeastern region, especifically in the (back then) province of Minas Gerais (General Mines in English, so the name says it all), Portugal only had eyes for Minas, Rio and São Paulo, and the northeastern region, full of its own culture, full ofthe history of converted Jews came to poverty. (after the Jews were expelled from Spain, more than a hundred thousand jews fled to Portugal, where they lived well, many became doctors, until the day they were forced into christianity and taken to what we call nowadays, Brazil -the very first Sinagogue of the entire American continent is in Recife, where Clarice grew up, the "northeastern são paulo"). So when we talk about the Portuguese soul in Brazilian culture. Hell yeah, we can talk about the more celtic corners of Portugal, especially Northeastern Portugal, which is STILL very celtic, like the kingdom they once made part of, and which is so similar to them, the Spanish region of Galiza (Portugal was never a part of what we shall call Spain, but rather a part of Galicia/Galiza).But we MUST explore the Jewish inheritage (and arabic as well) who were forced into Christianity by the time of Reconquista. Thus many northeasterns , like herself, with their unknown jewish ancestry (not like herself, although she was twice and immigrant Ukraine-Brazil, Recife-Rio de Janeiro), move to richer regions in Brazil, like Rio or São Paulo, like her family did. In the year she died she wrote this book and gave her only interview for television, where she says that in the most northeastern neighbourhoods she captured the lost gaze of the "northeastern", of a northeastern woman. Therefore she says the story is about "an innocence that's been trampled upon", then she had been to this fortuneteller, who told her really positive things, then, as she takes her cab she starts wondering what if after so many prosperous promises, she was, actually, hit by a car. That's when the magic of this book, started brewing in her mind. Then Macabea refers to the "dying breed" of the Macabeus in the bible, at least in the Roman Catholic (Macabeus I and II) as well as in the Christian Orthodox one (Macabeus I, II AND III). The only time she finally thrives or is remembered is in her death. She is hit by a car, a Mercedes, whose symbol is a Star. She then, through death, becomes a star, hit by a Mercedes in that exact hour of death. In old days, some claim that a Macabea used to be one of the Portuguese words for those small plants that thrive even in concrete. That's exaclty Macabea's sight as she withers off throughout her death, resisting like that plant. Misbeahaved just by the very fact of living when you are not expected to. PS - Celtic Portugal here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ToIZigbubXc.htmlsi=zmVwNAQh67rjmWIq Jewish/Arabic Portugal here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v_2fyB4dj4U.html
As I love her and say to read all of her, I'd say start with 1. The Bluest Eye 2. Sulla 3. Song of Solomon 4. Beloved 5. Jazz 6. Paradise in that order. Based on building on enjoyment, mastery of craft and style, and difficulty level. Each book brings you to the next. Bluest Eye and Sulla draw you in and you get attuned to her voice, then her masterworks Beloved & Solomon in the middle which also get more experimental, and then you're hooked and the last two follow Beloved in the trilogy and also are more experimental.
Currently half-way through Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion), my first of his novels (recommended to me by a Japanese friend). Paul Schrader's film introduced me to Mishima and am on a mission to read more. I'm a student of Japanese too, nowhere near skillful yet, but I'm considering buying Kyoko's House in original language and having a few friends help me read it. Great video, thank you, will be adding some on my list to read!
I just finished this (the English translation). It was a pleasant concise read with little fluff and 90% of the paragraphs have a necessary function. For its length, it is remarkably good at giving ample insights into each character’s psyche; even the minor characters (Ishihara, Otama’s maid and okusan’s maid) were given enough liveliness. The author is as shrewd as Suezo for (in my opinion cleverly) choosing a narrator’s perspective which allowed for the aforementioned psychological insights and (yet) at the same time he did have to put effort into making a coherent sequential arrangement (narrator → Okada → Suezo → the father → Otama → Otsune etc.) before he could execute the main plot. One may notice the lack of Okada’s psychological insights, but this shortcoming is perfectly implicitly justified and (un)executed. I highly recommend this short story for the reasons above even if the reader isn’t familiar with much Japanese culture and history at all (as I am not).
I had the privilege of reading this in Portuguese and it's one of my favorite books ever, so much in few words, this is what a book should be. From what you read, the translation doesn't seem to lose a lot.
Hi im new to reading literature and i found yukio mishima and was interested in reading his books. Which do u think i should start with. I saw some people recommend to start with 'Confessions of a mask'.
The Odyssey helps and so does Hamlet but not completely necessary especially if you read Ulysses along with Ulysses Annotated by Gifford and Seidman. It does a great job of annotating all the allusions and references in the novel. It also tracks page/line with the Gabler edition of the novel.
Pretty insane take when you said that not developing Zauner's husband is good because he is white instead of for some legitimate reason like conciseness or thematic focus. That's just racist dude. Also, you say that Zauner's father "as a white man has a huge looming shadow over her life story". Would her father not have influence over her if he was not white lol? Are you implying that white fathers being important to their nonwhite kids' stories is bad? wtf. Outside of what Zauner includes in the memoir, we don't understand her and father's relationship so to say that more focus on it would have been "incredibly toxic" is presumptuous at best. My book review "recommendation" is to be a little less racist.
"Snow was general all over Ireland...falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling like the descent of their last end upon all the living and the dead" It is about the temporality of life and that we are all connected in the continuum of time and space...even the horse who ends up in the glue factory...We are the dead
the disrespect to forbidden colours which was my first Mishima read and one of my favourite books of all time. Yes, it is long but it so lyrical and the characters are so fleshed out that they feel palpable
