Desa
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Oh, glad to discover a reading club of sorts here!
Might pick up interesting books that way.
Currently reading Platonov's Chevengur, but in dutch. It is about a russian man growing up in the time of the Revolution thundering across the land, after a prologue of sorts which I think I just finished, the summarization tells me they will send him through the hinterland of the young Soviet Union, and there he will stumble on the village Chevengur where communism somehow has started to establish itself. But Stalin hated it because of its anarchic spirit and critical look on the failures and tensions of soviet communism, and yet the writer also believed in communism. So that tension appeals to me.
So far, I like it. The writing meanders like a slow, ponderous and mighty stream, it tends to focus on one person, but it flashes at times to other people's perspective with ease. There is a weird, soft humorous and existential concern to it about the struggle and suffering of people the protagonist meets on his journey. It aches, and believes things should be better. But it also doesn't convey people as heroic, rather, they are petty, confused and contradictory all the time.
Curious to see what things will be in Chevengur.
Might pick up interesting books that way.
Currently reading Platonov's Chevengur, but in dutch. It is about a russian man growing up in the time of the Revolution thundering across the land, after a prologue of sorts which I think I just finished, the summarization tells me they will send him through the hinterland of the young Soviet Union, and there he will stumble on the village Chevengur where communism somehow has started to establish itself. But Stalin hated it because of its anarchic spirit and critical look on the failures and tensions of soviet communism, and yet the writer also believed in communism. So that tension appeals to me.
So far, I like it. The writing meanders like a slow, ponderous and mighty stream, it tends to focus on one person, but it flashes at times to other people's perspective with ease. There is a weird, soft humorous and existential concern to it about the struggle and suffering of people the protagonist meets on his journey. It aches, and believes things should be better. But it also doesn't convey people as heroic, rather, they are petty, confused and contradictory all the time.
Curious to see what things will be in Chevengur.
). It's... ok. I like it enough to finish it, but I'm at about 90% and I don't think I'll pick up the next one.
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) I honestly only go to this one because one of my favourite youtubers does a podcast about climate books, and I really want to read the books before listening to the episode (you really don't have to do that, I just want to). So I am slowly chipping away at some. I even had a few of them on the shelves already xD