"During the afternoon there had been a christening."
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Just about to start this collection of stories.
BarbaraBB Gorgeous NYRB shelf 🥰🥰🥰 6d
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"During the afternoon there had been a christening."
#FirstLineFridays
Just about to start this collection of stories.
For September bookclub. This is sooooo good 😍 Add this to your shopping cart, please!
pickThe German edition of The dead girls‘ class trip contains the title story(the memory of a class trip before WW1 and the subsequent lives of the girls during the Nazi regime),Mail to the Promised Land (the story of a Jewish father who flees pogroms in Poland,raises his son in France,moves to the Promised Land in old age& continues to receive letters from his son after his death) &The End (post WW2:a former camp inmate hunts down his KZ guard).👍
pick#doublespin I‘ve finished this volume and feel like I‘ve only just started it. It‘s one of those poetry collections that will take many readings to really unlock. Especially the first part — this is a 3 part collection consisting of Poems To Night (the title of a notebook of 22 poems Rilke gifted his friend and confidant writer Rudolph Kassner in 1916), drafts of these poems, and unconnected Rilke poems also on the theme of night.
For the last two hours, I've been asleep, sitting on a fashionable novel. It's the only part of the body you can read it with.
#catsoflitsy #Bert
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Wilhelm Meister is going slowly, I can't seem to get into it. SaGN is rather wordy and dense in a different way, but fun. And the short stories are a nice late night read.
Turgeniev and Chekhov loom large in this epistolary novella written by a German author, but set in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, at a time of social unrest, when university students were revolutionaries and the upper class held the lower classes in easy contempt. Every character is self-absorbed but thinks they're more observant than the others. I wanted to knock their heads together 😂
Peirene Press always make interesting choices
pickA ceremony and a minute of silence are organized in memory of Stella Petersen, an English teacher at a highschool. During this ceremony, Christian, one of her students, remembers their story together, up to her accidental death.
Very well written, this short story is about loss, memories, first love, forbidden love. I liked the rhythm of the story, the coming back and forth. Overall a beautiful read.
