#the albertine workout

[lover-praxis]

52. ‘One only loves that which one does not entirely possess,’ says Marcel.

53. There are four ways Albertine is able to avoid becoming possessable in Volume Five: by sleeping, by lying, by being a lesbian or by being dead.

54. Only the first three of these can she bluff.

Anne Carson, "The Albertine Workout"

#currently reading #anne carson #the albertine workout #gender studies

[osargonautas]

The Albertine Workout | Anne Carson.

#art #literature #anne carson #albertine #the albertine workout #marcel proust #Proust #Heráclito #heraklitos

[kaftan]

i think actually the reason i like eg anne carson so much is she’s one of those writers who 1) isn’t a lesbian 2) deals with queer themes in her writing and 3) DOESN’T flinch bodily away from any possibility of engagement with lesbianism in her critical and creative work. “is this really so commendable” YES!!! by god yes it is so astonishingly rare

#thinking specifically of the albertine workout and of course the sappho fragments but probably also other examples i'm missing #especially as a classicist too like... thank you anne

[geryone]

what are the two books in between if not winter and autobiography of red?

The Albertine Workout and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

#my Anne Carson shelf is my favorite ❤️

[dnickels]

The problems of Albertine are (from the narrator’s point of view) a) lying b) lesbianism, and (from Albertine’s point of view) a) being imprisoned in the narrator’s house.

The Albertine Workout, Anne Carson

[takethemonetandletsgogh]

what i've been reading (august 2022)

disclaimer: I have been reading way too much. I work in the literary field so I have access to a lot of books and I don't know how to control myself.

books

Orphic Paris by Henri Cole: I have nothing good to say... sorry

Plainwater by Anne Carson: speechless. best read of the month. I devoured it in 2 days it was THAT good. Anne Carson never disappoints.

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath: amazing, beautiful, my favorite Plath collection so far it was just so so so good; I'm speechless.

Anthology of Palestinian Poetry: very interesting and so diverse collection of poetry from Arabic and Palestinian poets! Some were better than others but a great introductory read to delve into this field of poetry:)

The Essential June Jordan: this blew me away. one of the most impactful read of this year. I loved it so much I want to read it again and again and again.

Selected Poems by Paul Auster: a bit repetitive in the leitmotivs but it was really interesting. I need to read more of this author!!

The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson: great reflexion / poem on the character of Albertine in Proust’s Search for Lost Time. Would need to read it again after reading Proust to fully understand though.

Poems 1962—2012 by Louise Glück: a re-read. loved it even more than the first time. I can't express how much I love her poems.

The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig: such a compelling short story !! I couldn't put it down. highly recommend for a short read.

articles

“Anne Carson's Splintered Brilliance” by Charlotte Shane (2016) : “Anne Carson lives for the breaking up, the separation. She’s trafficked in fragmentation for a long time: Her career as a scholar of ancient works, which are often fragmentary or have no definite author, required becoming intimate with the incomplete, the impossibility of completion”

“The Handmaiden” and the Freedom Women Find Only with One Another by Jia Tolentino (2016)

On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid by Nina MacLaughlin (2019) : “We grow close and closer, as with a friend, a love, the members of one’s family, so, too, a city block on the commute, the shifting light, the shape of the leaves on the Japanese maple around the corner. The tiny patch of lavender on a corner near my apartment that I see each early morning, a version of a friend. I am curious about it, interested in its presence and its growth: Who planted it, I wonder. Why’s it here?”

mangas & comics (I've been reading A LOT of those........)

Spy Family vol. 1 — 8 by Tatsuya Endo : I spent a whole 5 days selling them at the Paris Japan Expo back in July and they were so popular I decided to read them and I really liked it!! It was very funny and endearing. Very glad I stole magnets for my fridge at my job back in July.

Seuls vol. 1 — 13 by Fabien Vehlmann & Bruno Gazzotti : very interesting French comic I used to read when I was a child and recently discovered again!! Highly recommend. About children surviving some sort of 'apocalyspe' alone when every grown-ups have disappeared.

Le Bateau de Thésée vol. 1 — 10 by Toshiya Higashimoto : manga about a man trying to fix his family history that has been ruptured by a tragedy. Very reminiscent of Erased. I liked the world-building as time travels can be sometimes confusing. Not very convinced by the ending though. The main character is so prettily drawn!!!

Beauté vol. 1 — 3 by Hubert and Kerascoët : another French comic I used to read as a child (which I was probably too young to read...) and recently discovered again. This book is GORGEOUS (I love Kerascoët's artstyle<3) and asks some extremely interesting philosophical questions about beauty and politics.

Mon papa dessine des femmes nues by Philippe Dupuy : very heart-warming comic about art, fatherhood and sensibility. Dupuy's illustrations are mind-blowing and this feels like a true trip inside another world. Very interesting questions on culture and art in general, through the lens of children.

memoir research

"On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid" by Nina MacLaughlin (2019)

“THE MYTH OF DAPHNE ON A COIN MINTED AT DAMASCUS.” by Gabriela Bijovsky (2003)

“ORACLE TREES IN THE ANCIENT HELLENIC WORLD.” by Luís Mendonça de Carvalho, Francisca Maria Fernandes and Hugh Bowden (2011)

“POETRY, METAMORPHOSIS, AND THE LAUREL: OVID, PETRARCH, AND SCEVE.” by JoAnn DellaNeva (1982)

“The Roots of ‘Daphne.’” by J. L. Lightfoot (2000)

“Ovid’s Metamorphic Bodies: Art, Gender, and Violence in the ‘Metamorphoses.’” by Charles Segal (1998)

#recs #reading list #ttmalgrecs

[theoptia]

Anne Carson, from The Albertine Workout

Text ID: “One only loves that which one does not entirely possess,” says Marcel.

#anne carson #the albertine workout #quote #canadian literature #lit #fragments #selections #writings #words #excerpts #marcel proust #à la recherche du temps perdu #miscellanea

[asasusualfiona]

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu // Anne Carson, “The Albertine Workout”

("C'est terrible. Parce que maintenant que vous me possedez un peu, vous me voulez.")

#portrait de la jeune fille en feu #portrait of a lady on fire #anne carson #marcel proust #portrait proust #the albertine workout

[thecynical-idealist]

Here's my first article for Buzzfeed. Hope you enjoy! Share the love 🥰

#the cynical idealist #lit #literature #buzzfeed #art #f. scott fitzgerald #Fitzgerald #fsf #fitz #Marcel Proust #anne carson #The Albertine Workout #spilled ink #writing #creative writing #writing community #poetry community #artists on tumblr #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #Proust #millennials #shakespeare #william shakespeare

[lmv-h]

2. Albertine’s name occurs 2363 times in Proust’s novel, more than any other character.

3. Albertine herself is present or mentioned on 807 pages of Proust’s novel.

4. On a good 19 per cent of these pages she is asleep.

24. The state of Albertine that most pleases Marcel is Albertine asleep.

25. By falling asleep she becomes a plant, he says.

26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.

27. a) Sometimes in her sleep Albertine throws off her kimono and lies naked. 27. b) Sometimes then Marcel possesses her. 27. c) Albertine appears not to wake up.

28. Marcel appears to think he is the master of such moments.

29. Perhaps he is. At this point, parenthetically, if we had time, which we don’t, several observations could be made about the similarity between Albertine and Ophelia – Hamlet’s Ophelia – starting from the sexual life of plants, which Proust and Shakespeare equally enjoy using as a language of female desire. Albertine, like Ophelia, embodies for her lover blooming girlhood, castration, casualty, threat and pure obstacle. Albertine, like Ophelia, is condemned for a voracious sexual appetite whose expression is denied her. Ophelia takes sexual appetite into the river and drowns it amid water plants. Albertine distorts hers into the false consciousness of a sleep plant. In both scenarios the man appears to be in control of the script yet he gets himself tangled up in the wiles of the woman. On the other hand, who is bluffing whom is hard to say.

30. Albertine’s laugh has the colour and smell of a geranium.

The Albertine Workout — Anne Carson

#littérature #The Albertine Workout #Anne Carson #<3<3<3

[lover-praxis]

37. At first Albertine has no individuality, indeed Marcel cannot distinguish her from her girlfriends or remember their names or decide which to pursue. They form a frieze in his mind, pushing their bicycles across the beach with the blue waves breaking behind them.

38. This pictorial multiplicity of Albertine evolves gradually into a plastic and moral multiplicity. Albertine is not a solid object. She is unknowable. When he brings his face close to hers to kiss she is ten different Albertines in succession.

Anne Carson, "The Albertine Workout"

#currently reading #anne carson #gender studies #the albertine workout

[sensorypudding]

30. Albertine's laugh has the colour and smell of a geranium.

The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson

#anne carson #albertine workout #poet #poetry #color #colors #colour #geranium

[ezgihoscan]

The Albertine Workout, Anne Carson

#anne carson #marcelproust #marcel proust #kitap #edebiyat #kitaplar #alıntı #kitap alıntıları #kitap alıntısı #okumak #okuma halleri

[las-microfisuras]

25.

By falling asleep she becomes a plant, he says.

26.

Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.

- Anne Carson, The Albertine Workout

#anne carson #poetry

[moodwater]

The Albertine Workout, Anne Carson

#anne carson #q #w

[journalofanobody]

26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.”

Anne Carson, The Albertine Workout

(This one got me laughing)