#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

[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

[twisted-w0rds]

" Íçtiğin şarap, öptüğün dudaklar.

Her şey onlarla başlar.

O zaman düşün neydin dün, nesin bugün.

O vakit anlarsın yarın da olacaksın ancak bu kadar. "

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

[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  

[aperiodofhistory]

23 books in 2023

I have seen this floating around on Tumblr, so I decided to join the party. There are so many books still left from 2022 and years before. Last year I read 25 books and I hope to read even more this year.

The book of imaginary beings by Jorge Luis Borges

Alamut by Vladimir Bartol

Donava by Claudio Magris

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

The middle ages; A graphic history by Eleanor Janega

The library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

Babel by Rebecca F. Kuang

Legends & Lattes by Baldree Travis

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay

The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

The salt path by Raynor Winn

The Island of missing trees by Elif Shafak

Ways of being by James Bridle

Book lovers by Emily Henry

The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror by various authors

The memory of Babel book 3 by Christelle Dabos

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

The return of the king by Tolkien

Perfume by Patrick Süskind

A game of thrones by Martin

Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum

The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher

Tagging @artmill-danaan for it's 23 books in 2023 list.

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Other books I read in 2023:

Midnight library by Matt Haig

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

Love on the brain by Ali Hazelwood

Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros

Iron flame by Rebecca Yarros

Things we lost in the fire by Mariana Enríquez

[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.

[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

[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?

[beljar]

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.

Vladimir Bartol, from Alamut, 1938

[dijeh]

Alamut, Vladimir Bartol

[eksik-kelime]

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

Vladimir Bartol