#ia genberg

[smokefalls]

Going deeper requires a loss of control, requires the abandonment of that constant surveillance of time and space in exchange for a headlong fall inside oneself, or into somebody else, or down one of life’s many cracks and fissures.

Ia Genberg, The Details (translated by Kira Josefsson)

[dk-thrive]

She was an ocean of feelings, with more gradients and nuances than she could handle, as if the full cast of Greek gods and all the emotions and states they represented had been crammed in behind her eyelids. There was an intimate racket in there, never ending. Anything could turn into its opposite in an instant.

— Ia Genberg, The Details: A Novel (translated by Kira Josefsson) (HarperVia, August 8, 2023)

[northwindow]

Ia Genberg (translated by Kira Josefsson), from The Details

[lazyydaisyyy]

In one way life begins anew each day and every second, but it's also true that I keep returning to the same places in myself.

Ia Genberg, The Details

[heresay]

When I was younger, I often thought I should travel more and farther, spend more time in foreign countries, that I should be in a constant state of velocity so that I could get out of there and truly live, but with time I have come to understand that everything I was looking for was right here, inside of me, inside the things that surround me, in the money bobs that turned into my actual jobs, in the constancy of the everyday, in the eyes of the people I meet when I allow my gaze to linger... ...it turned out that I already had everything right here, in the details around me, that it's simply a question of being attentive in looking at all of it, of letting myself go and directing my attention outward, and I mean truly outward. That's where this sense of being alive is found, in the alert gaze on another.

Ia Genberg, Detaljerna

[intellectures]

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[readingtostaysane]

The Details by Ia Genberg - review

rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4)

longlisted for the international booker prize 2024

The Details by Ia Genberg is a book about a woman who comes down with a fever and starts reminiscing her life. We see her remembering four people, two ex-lovers, an old friend and her mother.

The novel sets out to explore small moments, or small details about these people the narrator is reminiscing about. It concentrates sometimes in the most frivolous aspects of their relationship.

The writing was really easy to follow, Kira Jofferson, the translator, did an excellent job. They didn’t shy away from words in the original language which is something I love in translated fiction and I can appreciate the hardwork that went into translating the novel.

The writing consists on reminiscing, so we don’t see what the narrator thought in the moment, but what she remembers feeling. It worked for this novel, as we see in retrospect what happened, but the narrator never diminishes her feelings even if they seem frivolous years later. It is something I can appreciate.

This novel deals with love, friendship and grief. It also explores what makes “us”.

"That’s all there is to the self, or the so-called “self”: traces of the people we rub up against."

I really enjoyed the exploration of these themes among different people who had come across the narrator’s path. How each of them presented a different perspective in each side of love.

I was initially going to rate it 3.5 starts, but after the last chapter, which is where we reach the culmination of the book and the author concludes why details are so important to our lives, i decided to give it a 4 star rating. Ia Genberg really shone in the last quarter of the book 

[yourtrashcollector]

L'io, o meglio, il cosiddetto «io», non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti.

Ia Genberg, I dettagli

[dane-zaboravim]

I dalje tako pamtim Alejandra, kako je ležao posve miran na jastuku, licem toliko blizu moga, a te crne oči poput dvotočki koje su fokusirano bušile rupe u meni. U životu sam dobila više doza čarolije, i to najčešće u susretu s drugima. Ima nešto što leži ondje, i samo ondje. Ne mogu to opipljivije opisati nego tako da se kod drugih trebamo tražiti ako se ne možemo naći, da su naši parovi očiju dvotočke koje gledaju jedna u drugu.

Detalji, Ia Genberg

[boldlymagnificentperson]

Libri: la classifica del Tempo Ritrovato di Milano

[the-end-of-art]

From The Details by Ia Genberg.

[smokefalls]

We live so many lives within our lives—smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up—and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame.

Ia Genberg, The Details (translated by Kira Josefsson)

[dk-thrive]

In one way life begins anew each day and every second, but it’s also true that I keep returning to the same places in myself.

— Ia Genberg, The Details: A Novel (translated by Kira Josefsson) (HarperVia, August 8, 2023)

[queerographies]

[I dettagli][Ia Genberg]

Clicca qui per acquistare il libro Titolo: I dettagliScritto da: Ia GenbergTitolo originale: DetailjernaTradotto da: Alessandra ScaliEdito da: IperboreaAnno: 2024Pagine: 180ISBN: 9788870916805 La trama di “I dettagli” di Ia Genberg Una donna senza nome, sulla cinquantina, è a letto in preda alla febbre. Sulla soglia del delirio, le tornano alla mente frammenti e dettagli di quattro persone che…

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Details: A Novel

By Ia Genberg.

Design by Najeebah Al-Ghadban.

[eva248]

Lecturas de abril. Segunda semana

Los árboles / Percival Everett. Editorial De Conatus 2023 Novela policiaca, comedia mordaz, caricatura del supremacismo blanco, Los árboles es una mezcla de elementos ejecutada con valentía, audacia y genialidad; una narración que no deja indiferente, que actúa como un puñetazo, y que está llamada a recordar, a fijar en la memoria, lo que aún no ha sido superado Everett parte de un…