tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post6383155722477998363..comments2023-11-17T03:55:40.736-05:00Comments on Ink Spots: Maybe not "The End of History," but certainly the Beginning of Life Not Sucking So BadLilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18373158801523577733noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-38779502864047642272009-11-12T00:12:06.247-05:002009-11-12T00:12:06.247-05:00Madhu -- I feel less ignorant now that I've re...Madhu -- I feel less ignorant now that I've read that Muller was little known outside of intellectual circles before being named as a Nobel Prize winner. (Perhaps this is why her work -- which sounds really interesting to me -- has been so difficult to find.)<br /><br />I'm biased, of course, having lived in a post-communist place for a couple of years. But I find stories of the way people cope with the sort of crushing resignation that comes with state domination even of <em>your thoughts</em> to be really compelling.Gulliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12558335790019565924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-36592077435423977902009-11-10T17:54:31.222-05:002009-11-10T17:54:31.222-05:00Here's a NYT article with excerpts of her work...Here's a NYT article with excerpts of her work; as she dealt with living under such conditions I thought it appropriate to the post.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/books/09excerpts.html<br /><br />MadhuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-9225023447815426302009-11-10T12:21:29.955-05:002009-11-10T12:21:29.955-05:00Gulliver, good post. We shouldn't forget that ...Gulliver, good post. We shouldn't forget that the right to shoot your mouth off is also valued by Afghans, Central Asians, Iranians and Pakistanis.Anandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03040200275831896147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-57974799448548261212009-11-09T18:49:10.292-05:002009-11-09T18:49:10.292-05:00Madhu -- I'm not familiar with Herta Muller, n...Madhu -- I'm not familiar with Herta Muller, no. Anyone you might compare her to?Gulliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12558335790019565924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8755035051021414780.post-46480884506472373042009-11-09T17:44:24.726-05:002009-11-09T17:44:24.726-05:00Bless you for this post, Gulliver.
*Have you read...Bless you for this post, Gulliver.<br /><br />*Have you read any of Herta Muller's novels? The Nobel Prize winner for literture this year? When I went to find her book, right after the win, I found very few people carried her novels printed on a small academic press. I got ahold of one small book of short stories. The stories, personal, disjoined and unusual, occupy a very strange mental space. Hard for us to understand, indeed.Madhuhttp://onparkstreet.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com