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This change of mind has come about for a couple of reasons.
In the first place, reading Gabriele Tergit's "Effingers" reminded me of how satisfying a read a well observed family saga can be. I'm pretty sure that Tergit had read both "Buddenbrooks" and the Galsworthy. Previously I read the Thomas Mann, thinking of it as a key work in European literature, but had been inclined to regard the Galsworthy as something that I could afford to pass over -- I admit that a little bit of Virginia Woolf snobbery about "middlebrow" fiction was probably at work here too. But I might just enjoy the Galsworthy!
Then my interest was prompted by this BBC feature on a new television adaptation. It reminded me that a family saga does not have to consist of Mann like novels of ideas to be probing and revelatory.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260320-the-story-that-skewered-the-british-class-system
#JohnGalsworthy #ForsyteSaga #Literature #Novels #BritishLiterature #FamilySaga #Books #TwentiethCenturyLiterature
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I've been dipping into "Lost Souls", a volume of short stories by Hwang Sunwon.
One that has particularly caught my attention is "Booze", written in 1945.
Following the August 15th liberation of Korea from Japanese rule, the Nakamura distillery is to be taken over by Koreans. Which Koreans though? As we follow the head clerk Chunho's attempts to manage the takeover, his household, and himself, we see a decent individual struggling with challenges going way beyond a change of name for the distillery.
"Booze" not only absorbed me in its narrative but also made me think about both decolonization and writing about decolonization.
#HwangSunWon #KoreanLiterature #Booze #ShortStories #Books #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #Postcolonialism #AsianLiterature #Korea
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I recently read Tillie Olsen's 1960 novella "Tell Me a Riddle".
An aging Jewish woman with cancer, her sense of having lost her self through years of tending to others, endless arguments between spouses, poverty, death...it all sounds so bleak, doesn't it?
Yet such is Olsen's sensitivity to the sound of speech, the complex intertwining of resentment and attachment, memories of migration and hope, and sheer emotional honesty that I put down the book feeling revitalised.
Don't approach the book as "just" a piece of women's literature, working class writing, or Jewish literature; it's all of those, and (not "but") from these skeins Olsen weaves a tale for us all.
#USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #FeministLiterature #WorkingClassLiterature #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #JewishLiterature #Novella #TillieOlsen #TellMeARiddle
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I've been dipping into "Lost Souls", a volume of short stories by Hwang Sunwon.
One that has particularly caught my attention is "Booze", written in 1945.
Following the August 15th liberation of Korea from Japanese rule, the Nakamura distillery is to be taken over by Koreans. Which Koreans though? As we follow the head clerk Chunho's attempts to manage the takeover, his household, and himself, we see a decent individual struggling with challenges going way beyond a change of name for the distillery.
"Booze" not only absorbed me in its narrative but also made me think about both decolonization and writing about decolonization.
#HwangSunWon #KoreanLiterature #Booze #ShortStories #Books #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #Postcolonialism #AsianLiterature #Korea
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I've been dipping into "Lost Souls", a volume of short stories by Hwang Sunwon.
One that has particularly caught my attention is "Booze", written in 1945.
Following the August 15th liberation of Korea from Japanese rule, the Nakamura distillery is to be taken over by Koreans. Which Koreans though? As we follow the head clerk Chunho's attempts to manage the takeover, his household, and himself, we see a decent individual struggling with challenges going way beyond a change of name for the distillery.
"Booze" not only absorbed me in its narrative but also made me think about both decolonization and writing about decolonization.
#HwangSunWon #KoreanLiterature #Booze #ShortStories #Books #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #Postcolonialism #AsianLiterature #Korea
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I've been dipping into "Lost Souls", a volume of short stories by Hwang Sunwon.
One that has particularly caught my attention is "Booze", written in 1945.
Following the August 15th liberation of Korea from Japanese rule, the Nakamura distillery is to be taken over by Koreans. Which Koreans though? As we follow the head clerk Chunho's attempts to manage the takeover, his household, and himself, we see a decent individual struggling with challenges going way beyond a change of name for the distillery.
"Booze" not only absorbed me in its narrative but also made me think about both decolonization and writing about decolonization.
#HwangSunWon #KoreanLiterature #Booze #ShortStories #Books #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #Postcolonialism #AsianLiterature #Korea
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I've been dipping into "Lost Souls", a volume of short stories by Hwang Sunwon.
One that has particularly caught my attention is "Booze", written in 1945.
Following the August 15th liberation of Korea from Japanese rule, the Nakamura distillery is to be taken over by Koreans. Which Koreans though? As we follow the head clerk Chunho's attempts to manage the takeover, his household, and himself, we see a decent individual struggling with challenges going way beyond a change of name for the distillery.
"Booze" not only absorbed me in its narrative but also made me think about both decolonization and writing about decolonization.
#HwangSunWon #KoreanLiterature #Booze #ShortStories #Books #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #Postcolonialism #AsianLiterature #Korea
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I recently read Tillie Olsen's 1960 novella "Tell Me a Riddle".
An aging Jewish woman with cancer, her sense of having lost her self through years of tending to others, endless arguments between spouses, poverty, death...it all sounds so bleak, doesn't it?
Yet such is Olsen's sensitivity to the sound of speech, the complex intertwining of resentment and attachment, memories of migration and hope, and sheer emotional honesty that I put down the book feeling revitalised.
Don't approach the book as "just" a piece of women's literature, working class writing, or Jewish literature; it's all of those, and (not "but") from these skeins Olsen weaves a tale for us all.
#USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #FeministLiterature #WorkingClassLiterature #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #JewishLiterature #Novella #TillieOlsen #TellMeARiddle
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I recently read Tillie Olsen's 1960 novella "Tell Me a Riddle".
An aging Jewish woman with cancer, her sense of having lost her self through years of tending to others, endless arguments between spouses, poverty, death...it all sounds so bleak, doesn't it?
Yet such is Olsen's sensitivity to the sound of speech, the complex intertwining of resentment and attachment, memories of migration and hope, and sheer emotional honesty that I put down the book feeling revitalised.
Don't approach the book as "just" a piece of women's literature, working class writing, or Jewish literature; it's all of those, and (not "but") from these skeins Olsen weaves a tale for us all.
#USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #FeministLiterature #WorkingClassLiterature #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #JewishLiterature #Novella #TillieOlsen #TellMeARiddle
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I recently read Tillie Olsen's 1960 novella "Tell Me a Riddle".
An aging Jewish woman with cancer, her sense of having lost her self through years of tending to others, endless arguments between spouses, poverty, death...it all sounds so bleak, doesn't it?
Yet such is Olsen's sensitivity to the sound of speech, the complex intertwining of resentment and attachment, memories of migration and hope, and sheer emotional honesty that I put down the book feeling revitalised.
Don't approach the book as "just" a piece of women's literature, working class writing, or Jewish literature; it's all of those, and (not "but") from these skeins Olsen weaves a tale for us all.
#USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #FeministLiterature #WorkingClassLiterature #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #JewishLiterature #Novella #TillieOlsen #TellMeARiddle
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I recently read Tillie Olsen's 1960 novella "Tell Me a Riddle".
An aging Jewish woman with cancer, her sense of having lost her self through years of tending to others, endless arguments between spouses, poverty, death...it all sounds so bleak, doesn't it?
Yet such is Olsen's sensitivity to the sound of speech, the complex intertwining of resentment and attachment, memories of migration and hope, and sheer emotional honesty that I put down the book feeling revitalised.
Don't approach the book as "just" a piece of women's literature, working class writing, or Jewish literature; it's all of those, and (not "but") from these skeins Olsen weaves a tale for us all.
#USLiterature #AmericanLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #FeministLiterature #WorkingClassLiterature #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #JewishLiterature #Novella #TillieOlsen #TellMeARiddle