Dylan Cuellar
@DylanCuellar7
Co-host of the podcast @unburiedbooks
Learning there is a spaghetti western adaptation of The Oresteia has made my day. The precisely perfect setting for this story in film.
Oresteia coming at me with heart stopping line after heart breaking line… The climax of The Libation Bearers is overwhelming. I can’t handle the punches you throw Aeschylus…
Also up today, Episode 1 of The Fretful Porpentine, my new podcast on classical music in books, co-hosted with @Klassical_Kat. First up is a Chopin scherzo in Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer.
Fretful Porpentine, a podcast about music & books is now available on all platforms. Co-created by me and my brilliant cohost @valerie_reads, the first episode discusses Philip Roth’s “The Ghost Writer” & Chopin. If you like it, we’ll be dreadfully chuffed if you boost it, or…
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Grapes of Wrath is good but why do people even bother with that and Mice and Men? East of Eden is one of the greatest American novels ever written. Read it
Read two pages of East of Eden and realized I’ve been wrong for nearly thirty years about Steinbeck.
as howard hawks once said: “a good movie is three hype moments and insane aura”
The manner by which Dreyer opens up the space of the home, each character's way of moving through it reflecting back on their own view on life, is so difficult to describe yet crucial; Malberg and Rye's contrasting vocal deliveries never fail to pierce me to the core.
ORDET: A film of both infinite complexity and unrelenting directness, every single one of Dreyer's conversations suffused with fear and trembling at the limits of one's own faith; the miracle exists in direct relation to the pain of modern life. Impossibly beautiful.
The Frog in the Throat. NYRB is running a special and it now comes with Core Power protein shakes. Use promo code FROGJUMPS. I read it 3x @unburiedbooks
What at some great long literary book series? Give me as many suggestions possible but I’m thinking along the lines of… - In Search of Lost Time - Dance to the Music of Time - Dream of the Red Chamber - The Pallisers - The Upcoming Table for Fortune - Diary of Samuel Pepys
Okay revising my tweet. Still the best thing anyone has written about Canyon Passage. It’s just so succinct and perfect
Which epic six part Trollope series do you prefer/would you most want to read?
We discuss Colette's description of the longest kiss in French literature -- and more -- in our episode on The Vagabond, a novel about a true bohemian with two servants: unburied-books.castos.com/episodes/tease…
Amusing to me that the city named a plaza after him, but no one calls it that
Julio Cortázar in Buenos Aires, 1983.