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[tomris-katun]

[godzilla-reads]

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." --Maya Angelou

[nyrbclassics]

NYRB Fall Preview 2020: NYRB Classics (October, Pt. II)

Also arriving in October are these two books, hailing from Russia and China. Nikolai Leskov—“Russia’s best-kept secret,” according to translator Donald Rayfield—wrote his strange folktales in the nineteenth century, while Ge Fei’s newly translated novel follows a woman fighting for equality in the chaotic Chinese climate of 1898.

Nikolai Leskov, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories 

Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds with gems, but none stranger than the stories of Nikolai Leskov. An inspiration for Walter Benjamin’s famous essay “The Storyteller,” Leskov’s work hews close to the old world of oral tradition. Its title story is a tale of illicit love and multiple murder that could easily find its way into a Scottish ballad.

Ge Fei, Peach Blossom Paradise

Ge Fei’s The Invisibility Cloak was a comic novel of contemporary China, but here, he turns a steely gaze to the year 1898, the country ablaze with hopes of revolution. Xiumi, a young daughter of wealthy parents who becomes a pawn in the reform efforts of several men, begins to fight the Confucian social mores that view women as property. Her campaign for change is a battle to win control of her own body—whatever the cost.

[macrolit]

The Invisibility Cloak, Ge Fei

[godzilla-reads]

Some stories transcend time. . .

[godzilla-reads]

August 4th, 2021

Book mail arrived yesterday 👀

[laorientallibros]

"Memoria del Paraíso" de Ge Fei. Un kintsugi de oro (y sangre).

El kintsugi (金継ぎ) es una técnica japonesa de reparación de objetos de cerámica rotos. Su clave es que las secciones partidas del objeto se unen mediante una resina que se mezcla con polvo de oro. La idea es no negar esas fisuras, no esconderlas, darles el valor que corresponden dentro de la historia del objeto de reparado. La propuesta es noble, y triste. Rescatar un elemento herido y trabajar…

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[journalofanobody]

"Heaven gives you no dead-ends."

Ge Fei, "The Invisibility Cloak