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Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,”... See more
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Artist describes seeking spiritual ‘vertical’ connection through music, lifelong classical influence, and albums as excuses for self-nurturing study.
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And when you say vertical, you mean between the material realm and something more astral and spiritual? Yes. From there? And that's what comes out of the music. But I'm interested in where that begins. Because obviously it doesn't start with an orchestra. Where does it begin? Is it you at a piano with a guitar, with a voice note? Like, where do
... See moreThat is what tenderness serves me for―because tenderness is the art of personifying, of sharing feelings, and thus endlessly discovering similarities. Creating stories means constantly bringing things to life, giving an existence to all the tiny pieces of the world that are represented by human experiences, the situations people have endured and... See more