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Luis Panini

@luispanini.bsky.social

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Reader / Writer / Architect. Major mottoes: "I would prefer not to," "yes I said yes I will Yes," "I can't go on, I’ll go on."

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, hi!
2,413 pages of Sylvia Plath in today’s #bookmail.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 6d

I just found them on Apple Music and sampled several. Stunning. Thanks!

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 8d

And it is quite a departure from all of his previous work. Thematically and structurally.

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 8d

Two tomes were acquired. Two.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 15d

Not necessarily by film critics, but pretty much everyone I know that has watched it hated it. Most need capes, buildings crumbling, explosions, and one liners to make it through a movie. Contemplation is going extinct.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 15d

Rewatched Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse. I understand why so many abhor this film, but if you’re willing to abandon all hope, surrender to its grueling monotony, and be governed by its sepulchral atmosphere you’ll have one of the most transcending cinematic experiences of your life.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 21d

Ok, you just described one of my goals.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 21d

Melancholy is his best. I absolutely adore that book. And the film adaptation is wonderful too.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 21d

Oh, man. I’m in a plane, one minute away from take off. Guess what’s on my lap?!

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 21d

Masterpiece! Camus turns the book into a confessional and the reader into a priest. It features one of the darkest, most reprehensible narrators (thankfully). If I ever dare to write a Top 20 of the best novels I’ve read, it wouldn’t surprise me to see this one on that list.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 25d

Very promising!

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 25d

Fresh from the press and my latest addition to the Gertrude Stein pile. Probably the 113th book in my home library written by (or about) the matriarch of Modernism.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 28d

I’m ecstatic!

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 28d

Por La melancolía de la resistencia o Tango satánico. Saludos.

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 28d

Come on board the Kraszna train, darlings. You won’t regret it.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 29d

Ecstatic!

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 29d

Worked all day. Went to a bookstore. Both titles were sold out. Drove to another. Found them a few minutes ago. Can’t read them now. Still happy to have them.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Oct 4

Pausing the Dostoevsky read through I started at the beginning of the year (I need a short break from his voice). Up next: the complete fiction of Albert Camus.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Oct 4

How does one engage with a writer whose body of work seems to represent the epitome of solipsistic creation? His purported novels are no more than countless vignettes conjoined in a universe of hopelessness, solitude, and total indifference. Award the Nobel Prize to Botho Strauß.

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Oct 3

I could “attempt” at reading the text in Galician, but like you said, her use of language is not traditional (at least in many of the poems), so I stick with Spanish translations. She’s phenomenal.

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Oct 3

She’s recorded in a tongue on the verge of collapse a litany of transposable voices and disjointed perspectives that reject Manichaean dualities, all to create the foundations of refurbished identities that can neither be named nor described. Award the Nobel Prize to Chus Pato.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Oct 2

In his exceedingly long poetic sequences –always epic in scale– polyphony can turn into a cacophony of everyday voices as he renders, in a most accessible way, a peculiar migrant experience while expanding the possibilities of the poem. Award the Nobel Prize to Π.O. (Pi O).

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Oct 2

My goodness. You are too kind. I really appreciate your words. I’ve been off for a couple of weeks (dealing with a personal tragedy), but I’ll share a few (new) names as of tomorrow.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thank you. I hope so too.

Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · Sep 8

My favorite of hers (so far) is Flights. I haven’t read anything by her since 2019, but very curious about these 2. She’s solid. Maybe is not your kind of author and that’s ok. Happens to me with many that most people find extraordinary and I just feel like I missed something too.