alexander zelenyj, em estilo
Um arranjo com os livros de Alexander Zelenyj.
Artigos
leituras em 2019
Para me manter na crista da onda vou tentar listar, por que a vida também se faz de listas, alguns dos livros que me satisfizeram ACIMA da MÉDIA em 2019.
- Contos de S. Petersburgo por Nikolai Gogol
- O Céu Que Nos Protege por Paul Bowles
- A Conjura por José Eduardo Agualusa
- O Vendedor de Passados por José Eduardo Agualusa
- Um Estranho Numa Terra Estranha por Robert A. Heinlein
- Comer/Beber por Filipe Melo e Juan Cavia
- Barroco Tropical por José Eduardo Agualusa
- A Nuvem de Smog e a Formiga Argentina por Italo Calvino
- Babilónia por Yasmina Reza
- Devias Ter-te Ido Embora por Daniel Kehlmann
- Hotel Silêncio de Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
- Matadouro Cinco de Kurt Vonnegut
- A Trilogia de Nova Iorque de Paul Auster
- Estação das Chuvas de José Eduardo Agualusa
- A Contraluz de Rachel Cusk
- 1Q84 (volume 1) de Haruki Murakami
- Astonishing X-Men – livro um
- Doutor Sonho de Stephen King
- Samitério de Animais de Stephen King
- Elevation de Stephen King
- Teoria da Viagem. Uma poética da Geografia de Michel Onfray
- Os Meus Heróis Foram Sempre Drogados de Ed Brubaker e Sean Phillips
- Como a Sombra Que Passa de Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Blacker Against the Deep Dark by Alexander Zelenyj
- Viagem por África de Paul Theroux
- O Periférico de William Gibson
blacker against the deep dark by alexander zelenyj
In a simplistic and sympathetic way I could say that the stories of “Blacker Against the Deep Dark” by Alexander Zelenyj become a surreal extension of our day-to-day experiences – they delve into the interior emotions of its readers. But is it just that? That would be nice, even attentive I would say, by the author, but Alexander Zelenyj does not miss the opportunity to creep, with a refreshing originality, under and under our skin.
In a non-simplistic way the book doesn’t use many psychedelic special effects, but blows our head up. An in-depth and provoking book, fantastic!
e chegou!
I am puting everything aside and I am prepared to live with obsessions and delusions; with ups and downs; with noises and silences; with discoveries and losses.
Reading a story written by Alexander Zelenyj is keeping the reader intrigued longer than just during its reading time.
Alexander Zelenyj likes to nurture all the nuances of fear, pain, pleasure and madness – sweet dreams await us all.
a minha reserva
Os livros de Alexander Zelenyj enriquecem qualquer biblioteca e podem partilhar sem problemas uma prateleira com Preacher e 100 Bullets.
O bilhete é a minha reserva na primeira fila para o próximo lançamento.
alexander zelenyj
Melhor, muito melhor do que os evangelhos.
Livros sem qualquer mandamentos, mas obrigatórios para qualquer leitor que goste de ser desafiado.
Um escritor em constantes descobertas.
scar city de joel lane
A new collection from one of the most powerful voices in slipstream and horror writing is a significant event. This collection of twenty two stories was one of the last that Joel Lane put together before his death in 2013. Frequently taking the form of dark urban fantasy, with his home city of Birmingham as their nucleus, these are intense and often painful stories that linger in the mind for a long time.
from the publisher
These stories are populated by troubled people living troubled lives in troubled places. A pervasive melancholia overhangs the tales, and seeps its way into their fabric (in tandem with the copious amounts of alcohol imbibed by their complicated characters trying to make sense of and otherwise cope with their circumstances). These tales, then, wear their scars plainly, and it’s this fragile, fractured quality which imbues them with their beauty. They are difficult stories, but then they have to be, considering their subject matter.
As a reader and as a writer, I’ve always been drawn to the dichotomy of living in a world made of equal parts beauty and tragedy, and how this kind of living affects us. This effect is on display everywhere in these pages. It’s a bittersweet vision to be sure, and an important one that we should not look away from, not ever.
from the foreword by Alexander Zelenyj
Contents:
- Publisher’s Note and Bibliographic Data
- Foreword by Alexander Zelenyj: Echoes from the Place We Met
- Those Who Remember
- In This Blue Shade
- A Faraway City
- The Willow Pattern
- Echoland
- This Night Last Woman
- Birds of Prey
- The Last Gallery
- Making Babies
- Keep the Night
- My Voice Is Dead
- A Hairline Cut
- The Long Shift
- Internal Colonies
- Among the Leaves
- The Grief of Seagulls
- By Night He Could Not See
- Feels Like Underground (with Chris Morgan)
- Upon a Granite Wind
- Winter Song
- Rituals
- Behind the Curtain
- Essay by Nina Allan: Socialism or Barbarism: Joel Lane’s Blue Trilogy and the Poetry of the Lost
A iniciar a leitura.
experiments at 3 billion a.m. by alexander zelenyj – new edition
A nova edição de Experiments at 3 Billion A.M. de Alexander Zelenyj é exibida com outro design, com menos páginas, mas tem o mesmo número de calorias. Aqui o menos é igual ou até mais: temos um introdução por Brian A. Dixon.
introdução por Brian A. Dixon
O layout mais “moderno” permitiu reduzir o número de páginas.
menos páginas
Uma nova aposta muito bem executada pela Eibonvale Press.
a minha escolha
Rhys Hughes tagged me for this. In your status line list 10 books that have stayed with you.
Rhys Hughes
Don’t take more than a few minutes. Don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be great works, or even your favourites. Just the ones that have touched you.
Tag 10 friends including me so I’ll see your list.
Books that have stayed with me?
- L’Éducation sentimentale (Gustave Flaubert)
- Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (Honoré de Balzac)
- Le Rouge et le Noir (Stendhal)
- The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
- War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- After Such Knowledge (James Blish)
- Le Matin des Magiciens (Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier)
- Les jeux sont faits (Jean-Paul Sartre)
- À la recherche du temps perdu (Marcel Proust)
- The Trial (Franz Kafka)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- 2010 – The Coandă Effect (Rhys Hughes)
- 2010 – O Evangelho do Enforcado (David Soares)
- 2013 – Experiments at 3 Billion A.M. (Alexander Zelenyj)
- 2014 – Feather (David Rix)
- 2015 – Sylvow (Douglas Thompson)
- 2016 – A Suite In Four Windows (David Rix)
Rules: In your status line, list 10 books that have stayed with you. Don’t take more than a few minutes; don’t think too hard. They don’t have to be great works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag 10 friends, including me, so I’ll see your list.
black sunshine by alexander zelenyj
Without any 3D effects Black Sunshine, Alexander Zelenyj is a real joy; without knowing what is going to happen next helps keep the suspense (horror) level high.
- the background event isn’t explained: it just happened, and it was sudden
- it was through the perspectives/thoughts of the main character that I can try to figure something
- there was no sudden discovery of a super solution that could solve the event(?)
- it really made me think of how people might react in that situation
These are some of the added values of the book. The story has allegorical elements about society and family, humanness, about the knowing and foremost about the unknown. The book makes me feel extremely uncomfortable.
But the main achievement is that the book come with an “open story”: it leaves me with many unanswered questions.
It’s actually a book rather fascinating; very intelligent and thought-provoking.
