Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins.
To par spiser middag på en restaurant, det ene paret er Paul og Claire.
Hva heter det andre paret og i hvilken bok befinner de seg.
The past is always a collection of memories, very precarious memories, because they are never real. On this subject I heard Borges himself say something very beautiful and moving.
I heard Borges say he remembered one evening his father had told him something very sad about memory, he'd said: "I thought I could remember my childhood when I first arrived in Buenos Aires, but now I know I can't, because I think if I remember something, for example, if today I remember something from this morning, I get an image of what I saw this morning. But if tonight I remember that thing from this morning, then what I remember is not the first image I had of that thing, but the first remembered image. And so each time I remember something, I am not really remembering it, but rather I am remembering the last time I remembered it, I am remembering the last memory. So in reality I have absolutely no memories or images of my childhood, of my youth."
Greven av Monte Cristo.
Nevn en eller flere av bøkene som truckfører Kurt, Anne-Lise og barna deres bor i.
O'Maine etter Maine - Win Berry overtok etter sigende O'Maine fra en viss Freud.
I hvilken bok finner vi Jasper og Alice og kollektivet?
Hint:
1. Forfatteren har vunnet Nobelprisen.
2. Boken har mottatt litterære priser.
3. På barrikadene.
A quote from Rilke: "Scale the depths of things; irony will never descend there." And one from Jules Renard: "Irony is humanity's sense of propriety." I'm going to be honest: I think both quotes, debatable though they might seem, are perfect. But the one I like best is my own: "Irony is the highest form of sincerity."
Quoyle (coil) i Shipping News.
Hva heter det femte barnet?
Paul Auster.
Hvem ga ut norges første skjønnlitterære "erotiske" novelle - og hva heter novellen.
Hint nr.1
Novellen ble utgitt i 1895 og har bl.a. et blomsternavn i tittelen.
Hint nr.2
Novellen er filmet.
Hint nr.3
Novellen og forfatteren er en av mine favoritter. :)
Louisa May Alcott. - Både Henry David Thoreau og Ralph Waldo Emerson var omgangsvenner med foreldrene til Alcott, men jeg regner med at du tenker på Thoreau - om Alcott er det riktige svaret.
Hvilken norsk forfatter "viste" leserne frykten - med sin bok i 2008?
In his viva voce examination for " Divvers" at Oxford, Oscar Wilde was required to translate from the Greek Version of the New Testament, which was one of the set books. The passage chosen was from the story of the Passion. Wilde began to translate, easily and accurately. The examiners were satsfied, and told him that this was enough. Wilde ignored them and continued to translate. After another attempt the examiners at last succeeded in stoping him, and told him that they were satisfied with his translation. "Oh, do let me go on," said Wilde, "I want to see how it ends."
Hentet fra The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes.
I went to Key West in Florida this year to enter the annual Ernest Hemingway look-like contest. The competition took place at Sloppy Joe's, the writer's favorite bar when he lived in Cayo Hueso, at the Southern tip of Florida. It goes without saying that entering this contest - full of sturdy, middleaged men with full gray beards, all identical right down to the stupidest detail - is a unique experience.
Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas
Det viktigste er jo innholdet - format og innpakning bør være underordnet - derfor har jeg plassert bøkene i de hyllene jeg synes de hører hjemme i - og ingen kan se om det er en førsteutgave av Ibsen eller en gratisutgave fra Kindle - og det spiller heller ingen rolle. :)
Jeg har også skrevet om problemet for lang, lang tid tilbake - jeg kan heller ikke huske noe svar fra adm. på vårt felles irritasjonsmoment.
Stoner er en av de mest minneverdige bøkene jeg leste i fjor. Jeg trodde jeg var alene om å ha den registrert her inne, men nå ser jeg at hele ni bokelskere har en papirutgave utenom min kindleutgave. Tenk så greit og oversiktlig det ville ha vært om "bokelskerne" på lik linje med andre boksider kunne vise flere utgaver av samme bok samtidig. (tilbakevendende irritasjonsmoment)
Aibileen fra The Help av Kathryn Stockett.
Hva heter afrikaneren som reiste til Grønland - og som skrev en bok i ettertid?
Dobbeltgjengeren (en yngre utgave av ham selv).
I hvilken roman finner vi en ung mann med blå frakk og gul vest?
Du, ja deg har eg jo gjort handel med før i dag,
seier han
Så rett, så rett, seier Åsgaut
Og kanskje herren vil handla meir, seier Juvelaren
Nei ikkje eg, men kanskje venen min, seier Åsgut
og Olav står og ser seg ikring, og så uendes mykje
sølv og gull her var, ringar og smykke og lysestakar og
skåler og tallerkar og sølv og gull kvar ein ser, nei
at slik skulle finnast til, og så mykje, kvar augo ser,
sølv og gull
Olavs draumar av Jon Fosse
"Imagine," he says to his mother, "that an Irish politician or bishop commits a terrible act. Finé. You'd want to know exactly how things had happened. Isn't that right"?
"I think so."
"Well for the Irish, this is secondary. What they care about is how the politician or the bishop is going to explain himself. If they're able to justify themselves with grace, that is, with a gripping, human story, they'll get out of their predicament without much trouble."
Harriet Burden
Notebook C (memoir fragment)
I started making them about a year after Felix died - totems, fetishes, signs, creatures like him and not so like him, odd bodies of all kinds that frightened the children, even though they were grown up and didn't live with me anymore.
The Blazing World: A Novel by Siri Hustvedt
At a press conferance, Claire Keegan replied almost angrily to a journalist who wanted to know what topics she wrote about in her novels: "I'm Irish. I write about dysfunctional families, miserable, loveless lives, illness, old age, winter, the grey weather, boredom, and rain."
And at her side, Colum McCann concluded his colleague's contribution, speaking in an exguisite plural, a la John Ford: "We don't usually talk publicly about ourselves, we prefer to read."
"Do you dream a lot?" Judith asked.
"We hardly dream at all any more," said John Ford. "And when we dream, we forget it. We talk about everything, so there's nothing left to to dream about."