#vladimir bartol

[ahmetcumhur-blog]

'İnsan her şeyin ölçüsü.' İşte bu düşünceyle bir anda bit kadar bir varlık birden hürmet edilesi bir mertebeye yükseliyor. Artık tek yapması gereken haddini bilmek olmalıdır.

Vladimir Bartol | Fedailerin Kalesi Alamut

[slumdrome]

[dijeh]

Alamut, Vladimir Bartol

[cemyafilmarsiv]

‘’…Hayal hayatın temel yapı taşlarından biridir. Bizim hasmımız değil, bizi ayakta tutacak vasıtaların en önde gelenidir. Heraklit kainatı hiçbir planı olmayan zaman tarafından tanzim edilmiş bir karmaşa yığını olarak görüyordu. Zamanı da istediğinde devirip sağa sola saçtığı istediğindeyse düzenli bir biçimde üst üste dizdiği renkli taşlarla oynayan bir çocuğa benzetiyordu. Ne kadar yerinde bir teşbih! Zaman bir hükümdara, bir sanatçıya benzer. Amaçsız tutkularını vücuda getirerek önce dünyayı peşlerine takarlar. Sonra da bizi anlamsızlığa, boşluğa iterler.Bir taraftan da kendi yarattıkları kanunların kölesi haline gelirler. İşte böyle bir dünyada yaşıyoruz. Dünyayı işleten kanunlara karşı çıkabiliriz elbette. Ama biz de bu kanunların parçasıyız ve onlardan kurtulma imkanımız da yok. Kısacası burası hataların ve hayallerin en önemli faktörler olduğu bir dünya’’

Vladimir Bartol, Fedailerin Kalesi: Alamut

[fencethetrader]

thanks to my beloved @l1veleak for the tag.

last song: 10-20-40 // Rina Sawayama

favorite color: navy blue.

last book: Alamut by Vladimir Bartol.

last movie: i'm not a movie geek unfortunately.

last tv show: dark angel 2000

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet

relationship status: single

last thing i googled: my online alias cuz why not?

current obsession: escape from tarkov arena

looking forward to: getting a decent job with decent paycheck.

tagging my lovely usual suspects @rasalhanout @ontheoutside-lookingin @while-the-days-slipped-by if you want to do this.

[golge-gezgin]

Hayat çok kısa ve öğrenecek de çok şey var.

( Vladimir Bartol, Alamut )

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[ Amasya, Kral Kaya Mezarları, 04.11.2023 ]

[mnvffffa]

Harper Lee - Bülbülü öldürmek

Orhan Pamuk - Veba geceleri

Liam O'Flaherty - Kıtlık

Ildefonso Falcones - Fatımanın Eli

Vladimir Bartol - Fedailerin Kalesi Alamut

Emile Zola - Germinal

Hər ay birini oxuya bilərsən yetər.

Çalışacam )

[korayaker]

Başını kaldırıp böyle gökyüzüne baktığında kendisinin ne kadar küçük ve önemsiz bir varlık olduğunu hissederdi.

Fedailerin Kalesi Alamut, Vladimir Bartol  

[benjisfanart]

Time for Throwback Thursday! Let's dial back to anyone when iPads where brand new and I still drew on paper! Back in 2011 I was obsessed with Assassin Creed...the mighty originals with Ezio (yes yes I know, but we all agree AC1 was more like a warm-up).

Having Italian heritage myself, there was just something mesmerising about crawling and leaping over Italian architecture that seemed to connect with me.

It Took me a while to click with the Assassin's Creed, "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted," or as it's written in Vladimir Bartols 1938 novel 'Alamut;' "Nothing is absolute reality; all is permitted," as it seemed like utter nonsense. I was still very Black is black and white is white back then. But it's a twist, being an absolute statement itself, that deconstructs the idea of objectivity. To break it down we might say, 'everything is in a context, and so, anything is possible, given the right situation.'

Life, more often than not, is 'grey,' in-the-middle...messy.

[merfolkplantgay]

Book recommendation: Alamut, which was written by Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol in 1938 and set in the Middle East, which he never even visited. The book explores themes and allegories of anti-fascism, and also heavily inspired the original Assassin's Creed and the Assamite clan in Vampire: the Masquerade.

But also for the last part - the "can of worms" - I would say it's not because authors are evil or harbor some secret agenda but because they are inspired by 1) other media that came before and 2) places where they lived and thus consider the "default", and then places where they only read about or briefly visited feel much more untamed and wild.

Writing is not just about thinking about the most creative & unprecedented world to build, or about intellectually building a world that addresses faults or shortcomings of the genre. It also comes from the heart, it comes from familiarity, the old "write what you know" adage isn't for nothing.

So authors make the familiar their "Point A" and build the world around that, and put in various locations inspired by tropes that already exist. It's not a sin, it's just that most authors are not hobbyist worldbuilders, nor are they historians or political analysts, and we cannot expect every author to be all of those things.

Also, it's a bit of a complainer's ouroboros when you think about it - on the one hand, taking inspiration and elements from various cultures around the world will now often get authors accused of cultural appropriation or insensitivity, but writing what you know and you're familiar with will get you the above.

Honestly personally I think an American author from California or whatever has about as much of a finger on the pulse of European medieval life as they do of life in any other region at the time, so they might as well go wild. European-based fantasy is often just as much of a poorly-interpreted mishmash of things as any other. (See also that post about English-speaking nobility with French rules in German castles using Italian weaponry with art and buildings and titles from hundreds of centuries apart.)

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[hetesiya]

Sence halkın ezici çoğunluğu hakikatin ne olduğuna aldırıyor mu ? Umurlarında bile değil. Sadece rahat bırakılmak ve hayal güçlerini besleyecek masallarla kandırılmak istiyorlar. Peki ya adalet ? Şahsi ihtiyaçları karşılandığı müddetçe, onlar için bu kavramın da zerre kadar ehemmiyeti yok.

Vladimir Bartol

[beljar]

It is ten o’clock, or perhaps eleven, it’s late, it’s early, the sun rises, night falls, the sounds never quite cease altogether, time never stops completely.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

No one wants to believe that the garden is dying, that the garden’s heart has swollen under the sun, that the garden is slowly forgetting its green moments.

I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired.

I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

Illustrations: Katherine Lam. || Texts: Georges Perec, A Man Asleep, 1967 (translated from the French by Andrew Leak) // Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from The Little Prince, April 6, 1943 //Vladimir Bartol, from Alamut, 1938 // Edvard Munch about his painting The Scream (1910) // Holden Caulfield, from The Catcher in the Rye (July 16, 1951) by J. D. Salinger

[dijeh]

Alamut, Vladimir Bartol

[mediaevalmusereads]

Apologies if you've read any of these before! I tried to grab some that I found interesting, even if they weren't my jam:

-Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

-Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsely

-Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

-The Anchoress by Robin Cadwallader

-Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf

-The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth

-The Wolf and the Whale by Jordanna Mac Brodsky

-Matrix by Lauren Groff

-Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

-Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman

Does anyone have any recommendations for medieval-era novels?

[eksik-kelime]

“Çünkü Araf yalnızlığın yeridir. Seni diğerlerinden ayırır. O mertebeye erişebilmek için çelik gibi bir kalp gerekir. Anlatabiliyor muyum?”

Vladimir Bartol

[sunsetagain]

cover art, postcard and limited giveaway AC fanart prints of Chinese version of Alamut written by Vladimir Bartol.