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The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo

4.0

The Demon: A Poem by Alexander Condie Stephen, Mikhail Lermontov

5.0

 save me демон (1839)... демон (1839)... демон (1893) save me...

и вот что делать после
Я тот, чей взор надежду губит;
Я тот, кого никто не любит;
Я бич рабов моих земных,
Я царь познанья и свободы,
Я враг небес, я зло природы,
И, видишь, — я у ног твоих!
правильно. сходить посмотреть носферату (2024).

my best friend lermontov........... 

Recitatif by Toni Morrison

4.25

Врубель by Михаил Михайлович Алленов

informative

врубель гений алленов гений

Мы часто произносим: "точка зрения", "угол зрения", "траектория взгляда". Подобно тому, как, рассматривая нечто в действительности, мы не видим своего лица, эти точки, углы, траектории тоже невидимы, но они есть, они составляют незримую предпосылку для того , чтобы нечто вообще могло материализоваться и быть увидено. При этом мы понимаем, что обозначающие эту предпосылку слова "точка", "угол", "траектория" суть переносные выражения, метафоры. Врубель же переносит на изобразительную поверхность и оставляет видимый след невидимого присутствия этих углов и траекторий зрения; выстроенная таким способом форма предстает как явленность неявного , знаменование невидимого. Это и есть кристаллизованная
в "технике" основная, "фундаментальная" художественная метафора, скрытая в предпосылке врубелевского творчества.

Let's Play Dead by Senaa Ahmad

love love love to see feminist retellings live up to their premise because it happens so rarely but when it does I want to claw my eyes out!! it's so vivid and sensual. when the woman is every woman in the world <333 in the end, all girls are like the rose bride <333 it's quite impetuous but it dwells on such perfect moments!! also a small part of the narrative but effective is how one form of violence induces another, surely not the main focus but the small bits of it are greeat. it's kind of perfect to me... and Body Horror. oh, my beloved wife body horror

She will be taken to a laboratory, which, in the style of laboratories of the time and perhaps every laboratory in every time, feels a bit like the underbelly of a dungeon. Here she will be injected with a poison that liquefies her insides in a matter of hours. One of her captors will spill the poison on himself and this will derail the proceedings. They will perform an autopsy to confirm that she is dead. With a delicacy that is surgical, or at least very thorough, they will crack every bone in her body. They will take out her internal organs, still gooey and falling apart, and feed them to any nearby dogs, who may need a fair amount of persuading. She will wake several times, but never for long. There will be quite a lot of screaming, most likely, but you don’t want to hear about that.

They will set her corpse on fire, and put the scorched bone fragments and teeth and shreds of flesh into a box. They will ship the box somewhere very far away, perhaps the remote island from earlier on. They will wrap the box in weights and cast it into the ocean. They will train a shark to develop a palate for mysterious boxes wrapped in weights so it can devour her remains. They will send a nuke from outer space to the precise coordinates of the shark. The bomb will vaporize the island, too, and everyone who lives there, a few thousand tidy deaths, but it’s probably worth it.

and yeah... you want her to live...

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

1.0

i cannot remember now why i wanted to read this book in the first place. few days ago i reread its description and immediately thought that i won't like it now. but i didn't want to just delete it from my tbr so i gave it a shot anyway. it is so... boring! the most typical story possible, you always know what is about to happen, you always know how the character is about to react and behave because it's hardly a character? nothing is shown everything is told. and the prose everyone's talking about is quite simple? not the kind that is able to carry the story on its own? disappointing in every aspect possible.
lin daiyu parts (on its own really weak and tiring at times) actually made me think that it could've worked better as a magical realism story. the author enjoys symbolic imagery quite a bit so i feel like she could pull it off and elevate the story, maybe not..
at least i am sure i understand my taste now better than 2 years ago!

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1.0

побойтесь бога.

Native Son by Richard Wright

3.5

i don't think i would get to it any time soon if not for finding this in a library considering the country and the city i live i'd call it unexpected at the very least. i'm so glad i did.
i still struggle to grasp how this book is almost 100 years old. i think this fact in resembles how the book itself made me feel. its ending is predetermined and enraging and disturbing yet this is a deeply hopeful narrative overall. occasionally i had to stop to think how much has changed and how everything is still the same and how some "rejected" sentiments are on the rise again. i was able to get through most of it distressed yet quite clear-minded but now it's all emotions i feel.. it was great 

Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni

2.25

having only seen nikki giovanni's interview and similar things, not actually knowing her as a poet, i had different expectations. so the only true emotion is bewilderment, i think.
i could see what she was doing and i now more or less understand her literary significance in the time period-it is open, angry and shocking-but now it feels overdone.
some pieces were great and touching, yet for the most part i was indifferent for maybe it's too personal occasionally.
every time i liked something or at least its idea i thought how i would prefer it to be a full essay.. it's clearly not hollow, but its form is not doing it for me, unfortunately..
but nikki giovanni is undeniably a lover & you can feel it!

Девочки и институции by Дарья Серенко

3.75