#sarah bernstein

[desescrita]

“I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems of understanding, of domination, no, I would work to allow the world its right to illegibility, to move in darkness. To take shape in its contact with people but to remain essentially itself. In the country, I would overcome this final difficulty at last, renounce my will to knowledge, give up my attachment to expression, and in this way come to understand the meaning of things.”

— Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

[lithub]

Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza.

Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, and Sarah Bernstein are among the dozens of prominent authors who are auctioning off signed edi

Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, Sarah Bernstein and other prominent authors are auctioning signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza, a crowdfunding organization made up of disabled people from around the world.

[virgin-martyr]

Beauty is something to be eaten: it is a food.

Sarah Bernstein, excerpt from Study for Obedience

[metaphrasis]

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems of understanding, of domination, no, I would work to allow the world its right to illegibility, to move in darkness. To take shape in its contact with people but to remain essentially itself. In the country, I would overcome this final difficulty at last, renounce my will to knowledge, give up my attachment to expression, and in this way come to understand the meaning of things."

— Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

[jacobwren]

“Every single one of us on this ruined earth exhibited a perfect obedience to our local forces of gravity, daily choosing the path of least resistance, which while entirely and understandably human was at the same time the most barbaric, the most abominable course of action.” - Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

[moonofiron]

- Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

[walrusmagazine]

Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

Bernstein says she enjoys books where the writer has thought a lot about the sound or shape of the sentences. That might be the key to understanding how to read Study for Obedience: following the voice, reflecting on what the narrator says and doesn’t say, and taking time with the story. In the novel, action feels less central than language and how the narrator interprets her new life and the reactions of the villagers to her presence.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

[sisterrevisited]

I was giving myself up at last and entirely to my brother body and soul, occupying every corner of him, bending to his will, or in the absence of will, bending at the very least to the needs of his body, the needs of his soul, to have his life be the only duty of another, to be venerated. All his teachings, I felt, through childhood, through adolescence, to this day, had been leading to this point, my sublimation of myself in my brother, for my brother.

- Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience