Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Hallowe’en Night-2023
Hallowe’en-2023
Hallowe’en: “The Best Horror Movies for Halloween—Without the Gore” (by Richard Brody)
Halloween is my least favorite viewing season because genre is a curse and horror films carry an extra curse—the curse of gore. ©
Monday, 30 October 2023
Hallowe’en: завтра
Sunday, 29 October 2023
Saturday, 28 October 2023
Hallowe’en: обратный отсчет
Hallowe’en, меж тем, уже совсем близко: даже на любимые хорроры не хватает душевных сил, но всякая милая (и ужасная, конечно, куда же без этого) чепуха еще способна радовать.
Friday, 27 October 2023
Австрийские tutti quanti: P. 5 (Albertina; photos, En)
Австрийские tutti quanti: P. 5 (Albertina; En)
Австрийские tutti quanti: Ч. 4 (...и немного видео)
Собственно, сабж:
Австрийские tutti quanti: Ч. 3 (...и немного фото)
Тот самый день, когда удалось снять самые солнечные венские фото и внутреннее убранство знаменитого Demel:
Австрийские tutti quanti: Ч. 2 (...и немного спешки)
Thursday, 26 October 2023
День рождения Белого
Спаянный маревом сам в себе поток распадался на звенья потока: протекало звено за звеном; умопостигаемо каждое удалялось от каждого, как система планет от системы планет; ближний к ближнему тут находился в таком же приблизительном отношении, в каковом находится лучевой пучок небосвода в отношении к сетчатой оболочке, проводящей в мозговой центр по нервному телеграфу смутную, звездную, промерцавшую весть. («Петербург»)
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
“The message in a bottle: Ten tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann, master of the uncanny” (TLS, Book Review; En)
Peter Wortsman has translated ten of Hoffmann’s pieces under the heading “tales of the uncanny”. Taken together the selection undermines the all-too-common view of Hoffmann as primarily a master of horror. We instead discover the particularly Hoffmannesque uncanny, a more inclusive category. It is, in Freud’s famous formulation, “that species of the frightening that goes back to what was once well known and had long been familiar”. Hoffmann said it first, and more poetically, in the story “Counselor Krespel”: “[t]here are people … from whom nature or some calamity tears away the veil behind which the rest of us engage in our mad doings unnoticed”. Humankind’s common inheritance is the capacity for overpowering feeling that we pretend to ignore. We repress, however, not only trauma or horror, but also spirituality and artistic passion, which have little use in the modern urban settings favoured by the author. But we all have the ability to recover profound beauty. For Hoffmann’s characters this is unlocked by sudden triggers: a snatch of divine music; an encounter with a madman; a well-constructed story. The subsequent course of their lives depends on how they process such abysmal insights. As the clear-sighted Clara writes in “The Sandman”, our subjectivity “either damns us to hell or uplifts us into heaven”. ©
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Apple Day-2023: photos (En)
Monday, 23 October 2023
Apple Day-2023 (En)
Sunday, 22 October 2023
Catherine Deneuve 80 (En)
Un souhait d’aUn souhait d’amour s’imposeTandis que la, que la pâte reposeLissez le plat de beurreEt laissez cuire, etEt laissez cuire une heure...
Saturday, 21 October 2023
Австрийские tutti quanti: P. 1 (Hofburg etc.; En; photos)
Friday, 20 October 2023
Австрийские tutti quanti: начало
Thursday, 19 October 2023
HG Wells on “Metropolis”: an example of the best worst cinema review
Never for a moment does one believe any of this foolish story; for a moment is there anything amusing or convincing in its dreary series of strained events. It is immensely and strangely dull. It is not even to be laughed at. There is not one good-looking nor sympathetic nor funny personality in the cast; there is, indeed, no scope at all for looking well or acting like a rational creature amid these mindless, imitative absurdities. ©
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
The Algonquin Legends of New England (1884)
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Monday, 16 October 2023
Немного хорошего: предхэллоуинское-домашнее (En)
Sunday, 15 October 2023
Claudia Pieralli: in Memoriam
Saturday, 14 October 2023
Friday, 13 October 2023
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Orange paint was sprayed over a University of Cambridge building on Thursday afternoon (October 12). The gatehouse at King's College was targeted as part of a protest by Just Stop Oil. ©
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Вернулись. Поездка получилась разной (погода нас подвела: без остановки лил дождь), но местами все же волшебной. Обидно, что где-то по дороге растеряли наши магнитики из Альбертины и Дома Хундертвассера: досадная мелочь, которая почему-то раздражает больше, чем фейлы посущественнее (Upd. Магнитики нашлись: отель переслал их нам буквально на следующий день, за что им огромное спасибо!).
Thursday, 5 October 2023
Австрия — завтра (снова)
Л. сделал мне подарок: на нашу годовщину летим в Вену. Прошедший сентябрь был трудным, я приболела, а тут вдруг такая радость. Ура!
“A Culture of Discontinuity?: Russian Cultural Debates in Historical Perspective”: вышла
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Monday, 2 October 2023
Sunday, 1 October 2023
A springful of larks in a rolling
Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling
Blackbirds and the sun of October
Summery
On the hill's shoulder,
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wandered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me. ©