211121: another reason to improve my french reading. read at least three times. this slim novella is exactly what i want in romance: sensuous, serious, severely impossible. what could seem power imbalance one way, between older man and young girl, is shaped against expectations because of racial discrimination. the prose, in translation, is spare, evocative, elliptical. there are no extraneous aspects, few names, mostly relationships. the autobiographical sense reveals dysfunctional family. of her work, this is my favourite duras...
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See AllAn Introduction to Henri Bergson 220701: (this is eleven years later reread) recent read (220625)[book:Bergson’s Philosophy of...
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140718: this is read 3 times. this is the book that made his name. it has been translated but i do not know how: a lot of the pleasure is...
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