#Damon Galgut

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In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.

Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

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In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.

— Damon Galgut

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Edward Carpenter, son compagnon George Merrill en tailleur à ses pieds et deux amis (c. 1900)

J’avance avec plaisir dans « La vie nouvelle » de Tom Crewe. J’y ai retrouvé Edward Carpenter et son compagnon Georges Merrill, croisé dans « L’été arctique » écrit par Damon Galgut, une biographie romancée d'E. M. Forster.

Pour écrire son roman, Tom Crewe a largement et librement puisé dans ce que l’on sait de la vie des deux personnages principaux, John Addington et Havelock Hellis qui ont écrit ensemble, sans jamais se rencontrer, « l’inversion sexuelle », publié en Allemagne en 1896, 4 ans après la mort de John Addington.

John Addington Symonds, à droite, et Havelock Ellis

En toile de fond de leur rencontre et du roman, les deux procès d’Oscar Wilde, dont le dernier en 1895 le condamnera à deux ans de travaux forcés pour « grossières indécences ».

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If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

—Damon Galgut

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The maid, the boss’s wife and a pile of sugar

'The maid, the boss's wife and a pile of sugar', a review of 'Sweet Dreams' on the European Film Festival in South Africa, 10-20 October 2024.

ALWAYS watching you: Agathe, the madam (Renee Soutendijk) at rest, in Ena Sendijarevic’s film Sweet Dreams, on this year’s European Film Festival in South Africa, 10-20 October 2024. Photograph courtesy asianfilmarchive.org TAKE A PERFECTLY insane tale of paternal love and marital abhorrence, the filthiest vagaries of colonialist practice, the prospect of freedom and untold wealth. Toss them in…

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65: In A Strange Room [2010]

by: Damon Galgut

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Title: Arctic Summer | Author: Damon Galgut | Publisher: Europa Editions (2014)

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De leestips van Nonkel Fons (315)

Fons Mariën las De belofte van Damon Galgut (Rob van der Veer, translator) Continue reading Untitled

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I’m hopeless, I’m a mess. I need to reach the stage where I’m sufficiently obsessed that it calls to me first thing and won’t let me go. I do get there, eventually, but it takes a long time, and with a first draft and everything murky – I have the feel of a shape in mud, which I’m trying to pull up – I would rather do almost anything than write. It tends to be very good for household tasks.

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Lecturas de julio. Tercera semana

La estrella de la mañana / Karl Ove Knausgård. Editorial Anagrama, 2023 En una noche de agosto en Noruega, un resplandor enciende el cielo de golpe: es una enorme estrella nueva que se eleva vertiginosa, sin que nadie pueda explicarla. Magnetizados, inquietos, la observan unos personajes en medio de sus propias encrucijadas. Está Arne, profesor de literatura, que trata de lidiar con las…

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He is hardly ever happy in the place where he is, something in him is already moving forward to the next place, and yet he is never going towards something, always away, away.

Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

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Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

— Damon Galgut

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La promesse (The promise) écrit par Damon Galgut (2022) 😍

Sabelo Mlangeni Kgomostso and his three-day date - série "Country girl" 2008

[...] C'est Clarence, aussi, qui rassemble tout Anton une fois refroidi, le tamise à la recherche de débris métalliques, de plombages et de broches médicales avant de le passer au crémulateur qui le réduit en poudre. Il peut à présent le verser quasiment comme du liquide dans l'urne précommandée dûment numérotée et étiquetée afin d'éviter toute confusion, mais à ce stade, quelle importance, sans compter que les restes d'Anton sont tout sauf purs, ils contiennent un peu des derniers résidus de ceux qui l'ont devancé, en particulier son prédécesseur immédiat, un professeur agrégé de langues slaves, mort étouffé par une banane. [...]

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[L'impostore][Damon Galgut]

L'impostore di Damon Galgut è uno straordinario romanzo, dalla penna raffinata e tagliente di uno dei più importanti scrittori contemporanei.

Non è facile cambiare vita intorno ai quarant’anni, ma Adam Napier ha deciso di provarci. E in fondo non ha molta scelta. La sua crisi è evidente, il fallimento pure. Dopo aver perso improvvisamente il lavoro e poi anche la casa di Johannesburg, si ritrova prima a Città del Capo, ospite irrequieto e depresso del fratello Gavin, e poi in un paesino del Karoo, all’incirca a otto ore di strada dalla…