#Valeria Luiselli

[thensson]

Thinking of you, even now

Darling, I Left the House, by Joseph Brodsky || Nickie Zimov || Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli || Garden of Words, Makoto Shinkai || Love, Alex Dimitrov || This is Not a Love Poem, Caitlyn Siehl

[sicknessinmotion]

I MISS YOU MORE THAN I REMEMBER YOU; ON FATHERS AND THEIR GHOSTS

valeria luisielli // cecilia corrigan // clementine von radics // ocean vuong // nicola yoon // catherine lacey // leanna firestone

[cinematic-literature]

The White Lotus S02E01 (Ciao)

Book title: Lost Children Archive (2019) by Valeria Luiselli

[litandlifequotes]

I also like the constant tension in those pictures, a tension between document and fabrication, between capturing a unique fleeting instant and staging an instant. She wrote somewhere that photographs create their own memories, and supplant the past. In her pictures there isn’t nostalgia for the fleeting moment, captured by chance with a camera. Rather, there’s a confession: this moment captured is not a moment stumbled upon and preserved but a moment stolen, plucked from the continuum of experience in order to be preserved.

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

[sublecturas]

“Desierto sonoro” de Valeria Luiselli

[elwenyere]

“I had made the very common mistake of thinking that marriage was a mode of absolute commonality and a breaking down of all boundaries, instead of understanding it simply as a pact between two people willing to be the guardians of each other’s solitude.”

― Valeria Luiselli, from Lost Children Archive

[ghostingfee]

read a little over half of The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli tonight and was surprised how much I ended up liking it. Looking forward to finishing it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow

[veryslowreader]

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

The White Lotus: "Ciao"

[awolfinmycity]

"Children have a slow, silent way of transforming the atmosphere around them. They are so much more porous than adults, and their chaotic inner life leaks out of them constantly, turning everything that is real and solid into a ghostly version of itself. Maybe one child alone, by himself, cannot modify the world the adults around him or her sustain and entertain. But two children are enough—enough to break the normality of that world, tear the veil down, and allow things to glow with their own, different inner light." -Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

[losdemasiadoslibros]

Título: Desierto Sonoro Autor: Valeria Luiselli Editorial: Sigilo Soporte: Físico Resumen: Una pareja de documentalistas de sonidos emprenden un viaje en auto por el desierto de USA como despedida o cierre de su relación. Cada uno junto a sus respectivos hijos. Es un registro agridulce del fin de una relación con niños involucrados y mucha data y critica a la situación actual sobre la inmigración de Estados Unidos.

Creo que fue un cambio de un libro repetido que me regalaron mis suegros para mi cumple o en navidad. Creo que navidad porque lo leí con calor.

Es hermoso. Le gustó a todo el mundo que se lo recomendé. Desde mi tía, mis primas, mis amigos. Amo a las autoras sensibles, lo dije mil veces, porque están en los detalles más hermosos.

El libro está dividido en 2 partes muy marcadas. La historia del viaje, el recorrido de los 4 en la ruta con sus cajitas documentales, las polaroids que sacaban y la gente que conocían. Y después está el viaje final de los niños - todos -. (Estoy tratando de no spoilear). Digo que están marcadas porque se leen y se perciben de maneras muy diferentes. Están escritas con estilos diferentes también.

Quisiera explayarme m´ás pero simeplemente es un libro que vale la pena leer. Es largo pero no se sinti´ó eterno, sino todo lo contrario.

“Yo no llevo un diario. Mis diarios son las cosas que subrayo en los libros.“

“Concentrados como estábamos en coleccionar intimidades de desconocidos, dedicados a escuchar tan atentamente sus palabras, nunca sospechamos que el silencio se iría ensanchando lentamente entre nosotros.“

“Supongo que todas las historias comienzan y terminan con un desplazamiento; que todas las historias son en el fondo una historia de traslado.“

“Si pudiera subrayar simplemente ciertas cosas con el pensamiento, lo haría.“

“Anticipamos la ausencia de nuestros seres queridos a través de la presencia material de sus objetos.“

[johnesimpson]

Awfully Far Out, but Not Yet Drowning

Charles Bukowski, Stevie Smith, et al.: 'Awfully Far Out, but Not Yet Drowning'

[Image: “Badlands Seascape,” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] From whiskey river: Dinosauria, We (excerpt) We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings…

[gerbie7]

Valeria Luiselli – De gewichtlozen

Op Social Media zag ik vaak aanbevelingen over de schrijfster, ook nog eens van mensen wiens oordeel ik vertrouw. Vorig jaar las ik voor het eerst een boek van haar en ik werd weggeblazen. Zo mooi, zo indrukwekkend. Dit jaar las ik dit boek digitaal, met veel zin. Het duurde even, ik kwam er niet in. Het duurde nog wat langer en ik merkte dat ik er nog steeds weinig van begreep. En toen had ik…

[butyourewrong]

Los ingrávidos, Valeria Luiselli

[sublecturas]

"Desierto sonoro", de Valeria Luiselli

[sesamereviews]

Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli

Luiselli’s writing style throughout this essay was consistently understandable and attractive to me. She evokes empathy even with limited perspectives. The title, referring to her daughter asking her “Tell me how it ends” as she recounts stories of the children she encounters, is rather heartbreaking with the reminder that the victims of violence and neglect from the countries they came from and continue to suffer through the immigration system (no matter how much patriots of the US want to defend its benefits), they are just children who are undeserving of the harm they’ve suffered and are in need of a better life. They shouldn’t have to justify their need for help and prove their trauma; the 40 questions, while helpful for building a defense case, are understandably hard to answer and are lacking empathy in essence (although not from the nonprofit organizations that created them, but rather from the system that demands them). 

My only wish would have been for it to be more extended and more in-depth about the more memorable cases she took on. However, that’s also understandable given the way she relates them to her own immigration process. The question asked most, in the end, is this; “Why did they/you/I come to the United States?”

It draws attention to a system barely any mainstream news media pay attention to anymore, at least from what I’ve seen, mainly since I also lived in the States during the time of Trump’s inauguration and heard the news of “Mexico paying for a wall” and the immigration crisis. I simply didn’t understand and suffered none of its consequences since I was so young then, and I had the privilege of holding an American passport and citizenship because my mother purposely traveled there when giving birth to me. It makes me want to do better, which makes the hopeful note at the end all the more impactful and admirable.

[elwenyere]

“She wrote somewhere that photographs create their own memories, and supplant the past. In her pictures there isn’t nostalgia for the fleeting moment, captured by chance with a camera. Rather, there’s a confession: this moment captured is not a moment stumbled upon and preserved but a moment stolen, plucked from the continuum of experience in order to be preserved.”

― Valeria Luiselli, from Lost Children Archive