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halfflat

halfflat@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 9 months ago

PhD ethnomusicologist. Currently writing about sound, experimental music, and urban change in Austin, Texas.

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Currently Reading

Palol, Miquel de., François-Michel DURAZZO: Trois Pas Vers Le Sud (Paperback, Français language, 2024, Editions Zulma) 5 stars

Barcelone, à l’aube. Deux groupes surgissent des ruelles sombres au pied de l’église Santa Maria. …

Getting Lost in the Funhouse of Free Will; Or, what if Gaddis Wrote “The Exterminating Angel”

5 stars

The truth of the matter is that the back cover tells you everything you need to know: a dizzying novel about doubles, fakes, life & death. Half crime novel, half espionage story, and half (in the imaginary plane perhaps) philosophical rumination, I'll be honest in saying there are still swathes of the story I don't fully understand. Perhaps a part of that is reading in French rather than English, but I do think that another part of it is Palol's deft capacity to slice away at plot until what's left is a kind of jewel, a refractive narrative that bends you as you pass through it. I have no idea whether all the information is truly there in this volume or whether reading other volumes of the Troiacord will "unlock" it for me, but I have to stress that I'm entirely satisfied in the muddle that it left me in. …