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Christina Tudor-Sideri

@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social

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writer, translator, and researcher whose work unfolds at the crossroads of literature, philosophy, and critical theory (currently writing about relics and time)

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · Aug 24

Forthcoming: www.erratumpress.com/reliquary

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 8h

“We only live once, and rather badly.”

—Ava, Carole Maso

ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 8h

We have philosophized badly.

—Joubert

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 8h

“There was the cemetery where we met so often. Did you ever wonder what tomb I was visiting?

Yes, but it was like opening a letter sent to someone else.”

There are many kinds of letters.

Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 8h

“Our dead, our poor dead! They ask so little that they get even less.”

The Green Room (1978)

Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 8h

Even though it is often described as the odd one out, this film is very much Truffaut’s. So much so that I always forget it is the adaptation of three Henry James stories: The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, and The Way It Came.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 8h

Rewatching Truffaut’s La chambre verte, I remembered how he once compared this film to a letter written by hand. “If you write by hand it will not be perfect, the writing may perhaps be trembly, but it will be you, your writing.”

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 14h

Sunday with Marguerite Duras. “And in our eyes the same sadness, like a night landscape.”

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 1d

“Again space is full of voices, the entire body has become heart.”

—Hélène Cixous

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 2d

“Although I write about the world of the eternal, please do not get the impression that I have been there myself.”

(found in an old Romanian magazine from the 1930s; author name indecipherable)

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 2d

“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.”

Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 2d

For whom does the nothing noth?

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Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 2d

’What would be a reasonable assumption? English to Korean, or Korean to English? Is translation always direction-specific?’
Don Mee Choi on poetry, translation, politics and twinning
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Transatlantic Translation Anthology

<p>When I happen to mention to people that I translate contemporary Korean poets, I’m often asked which poets I translate into Korean. Am I to assume

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

It feels so long ago... But I still believe that, same as I still believe that writing, any kind of writing, remains a therapy that deepens the wound it soothes.

Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

Coincidentally, or perhaps because of all this rain, I woke up with thoughts of fog and disintegration and the urge to rewatch Damnation, but this fragment from Cărtărescu also reminded me that it has been a while since I have read my favorite from Krasznahorkai, Animalinside.

Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

This reminded of how, for a brief moment in time, when Under the Sign of the Labyrinth was not yet Under the Sign of the Labyrinth, it bore the title Wound Separation.

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

“We are all strange inside,” writes Cărtărescu in his newest journal. “But only authors know it, for they have seen themselves from within... What I do is describe myself even as the vivisection is taking place, while the scalpel cuts, while the retractor pulls the wound apart.”

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you kindly, Hyo 🤍 I hope you are well.

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 3d

Draught is about making, and so it’s only right that the first piece in the journal is a visit to an artist’s studio, in this case the brilliant Rosalind Nashashibi.

Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social · 3d

'Day trip to the River Beane and back to London, August 2025': Studio Visit with artist Rosalind Nashashibi featuring a short text by Elena Narbutaitė and photos by GD
draughtjournal.com/article/rosa...

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Jeff.

Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

I love this

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 4d

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for reading, Kim 🖤

Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, Stephen. It was wonderful putting them together and losing myself in those memories...

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social:

On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks.

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On Bookmarks and Other Ruins

<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

💙

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 4d

How wonderful! Congratulations, Róisín!

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