Christina Tudor-Sideri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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writer and translator with an interest in myth, memory, the (absent) body, linguistic consciousness, narrative deferral, and the philosophy of autoimmunity
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
William H. GassChristina Tudor-Sideri“As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks; I can smell you, maybe for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour” —On Being Blue, William H. Gass
Paperback, 2014
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Wuthering Heights
Emily BrontëChristina Tudor-Sideri“The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.” (Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights)
Paperback, 2002
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Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History
Eduardo CadavaChristina Tudor-SideriI return often to this passage in Swann's Way (tr. Moncrieff-Kilmartin) on the memory of the body, or rather, the remembering body—the body as the darkened tomb of memory, how Eduardo Cadava calls it in Words of Light. https://t.co/l4ER0P2JdR
Paperback, 1998
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Destroy, She Said
Marguerite DurasChristina Tudor-SideriBehold the word: Destroy, destroy, destroy. —The Book of Monelle, Marcel Schwob Destroy, she said. —Marguerite Duras
Paperback, 1994
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Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World
Beatrice K. OttoChristina Tudor-Sideri@MiallLaurence @_ryanruby_ Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World by Beatrice K. Otto, from CUP. I read it a few years ago after coming across it in the writings of a Romanian philosopher on the figure of the trickster. There’s an excerpt here: https://t.co/K1mVdbJ6Kw
Paperback, 2007
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A Tour of Bones: Facing Fear and Looking for Life
Denise IngeChristina Tudor-Sideri"Our flesh may rot but we want our love at least to be immortal." (A Tour of Bones, Denise Inge)
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Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot, and the Legacy of Courtly Love
Joseph D. KuzmaChristina Tudor-Sideri@MinxMarple Also: The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot, and the Legacy of Courtly Love by Joseph D. Kuzma
Hardcover, 2016
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Thomas the Obscure
Maurice BlanchotChristina Tudor-Sideri“She was sick, but how good this sickness was, this sickness which was not her own and which was the health of the world!” —Maurice Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure (tr. Robert Lamberton)
Paperback, 1995
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The Uses of Literature
Italo CalvinoChristina Tudor-SideriThinking of books dear to me that I no longer have, such as the 1986 English translation by Patrick Creagh of essays by Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature, and its lovely cover. "What stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary." A must-read. https://t.co/a5FZnCUfWO
Paperback, 2011
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Black Vellum
Ansgar AllenChristina Tudor-Sideri“We are made of large, intervening periods of habitual movement…” —Black Vellum, Ansgar Allen. https://t.co/ruk5mu7v3f
Paperback, 2023
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