Yoon Kim
@nicoscosc
July. Liszt. 🫧🫧 🎹 Au bord d’une source (recorded by me) hope you enjoy!
Antoine Volodine (age 5)’s encounter with Maurice Blanchot (age 48) 🥰 (from the interview with Volodine by Wagneur: jstor.org/stable/3685663)
“There is no meaning [sens, sense] for one alone.” — Bataille, Inner Experience (tr. Stuart Kendall)
Sunday Haydn 🤍 🎹 Just me playing the Adagio of Hob. XVI:50 (from the lockdown days 🐰) Hope you enjoy!
“I wrote five of my first seven published books sitting at the kitchen bench in that house… My mood while I wrote was usually a mild despair. I was many times ready to accept that what I was writing would never be published.” —Gerald Murnane, “The Still-Breathing Author” (2018)
“If challenged to choose a label for myself I’d call myself a technical writer.” — Gerald Murnane (from “The Still-Breathing Author,” in Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One)
Gerald Murnane recalling his first encounter with Kerouac’s On the Road: (from his 1986 essay “On the Road to Bendigo”)
“What is at stake is not to portray literary works in the context of their age, but to represent the age that perceives them—our age—in the age during which they arose. It is this that makes literature into an organon of history.” — Walter Benjamin (from a 1931 essay)
“I was dumbfounded at such sagacity and such baseness, such alternately true and false notions, such absolute perversion of feeling and utter turpitude, and yet such uncommon candour.” — Denis Diderot, Rameau’s Nephew (tr. Leonard Tancock)