“Péter Nádas’ Parallel Stories is actually a hugely ambitious, breathtakingly inventive and at times maddeningly dense novel intent on obliterating historical, geographical, literary and structural borders. ‘Parallel’ doesn’t really begin to describe how these stories interact with one another. They converge and diverge; they overlap; they crisscross, loop around and double back on one another, resulting in a defiantly nonlinear novel that attempts the daunting feat of recreating the fragmented, and perhaps even shell-shocked experience of living in Hungary during the 20th century.”
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> full text by Adam Langer; photo: Barna Burger (c) NYT, 2011
Archive for March, 2012
“Lives Crisscross in Hungary”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags hsitroy, Hungary, Literature, Péter Nádas, review on 7 March 2012 by delclem‘To make German men cry is not an easy task’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Marina Abramović, Performance art, Serbia, United States, yugoslavia on 3 March 2012 by delclem
“In silence, with my eyes closed, I spent 5 minutes drinking a glass of water. It was ‘a ritualization of everyday life’ administered to me by Marina Abramović to illustrate the methods behind her art.
The Yugoslavia-born, New York-based Abramovic, is at 65, one of the world’s best-known performance artists: she has rendered herself unconscious, whipped and poisoned herself and stood motionless for six hours while audience members were invited to use any of 75 display objects upon her – including knives and chains.” >read more
(c) Ross Simonini, THE GLOBE & MAIL, 20 February 2012; photo: Michael Falco
The Closure of ‘The Ukrainian Body’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, body, censorship, pornography, Ukraine on 1 March 2012 by delclem
Sex, Nationalism, and Academic Freedom:
Kyiv has its home-grown debate on ‘degenerate art’.
“Controversy has erupted at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) over the recent closure of the art exhibition The Ukrainian Body at the university’s Visual Cultural Research Center (VCRC) and by the closure of the Center itself a few days later.
One can get a good sense of what was being shown at the exhibition from the review on the internet journal Art Ukraine.” >MORE
(c) John-Paul Himka & ukraineanalysis.com, 2012 (reblogged)
delirium clemens 