2020 is a very strange time, probably, in this passing century, people from all over the world have been in a long solitude with anxiety from the beginning. On the event of the announcement of Booker prize long list on 28 th July, at midnight in London but in the very early morning in Dhaka, readers from around the world have got startled either before going to sleep or after getting up from the dreams when they have seen “The Booker Dozen” or the list of 13 finest fictions in English from October, 2019 to September, 2020 published in the UK/Ireland. Though it has already made a buzz that US eligibility has pushed the prize from English atmosphere to American milieu, this is the most surprising and versatile long list in the Booker history that more than half (8/13) of them are first appearance in the world of long-fiction, pages started from 192 ( Redhead by the Side of the Road ) to 912 ( The Mirror & the Light ), two of them are completing their decades-long trilogy, two of...
" This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself " When I heard Kambei Shimada ’ s dialogue , a ronin , the leader of samurais starred by Takashi Shimura ; I just press the pause button instantly to hear it repeatedly and felt a great pleasure and thought that is the essence of human artistic prestige that drive us to surrender to art both spiritually and philosophically. If Rashomon [1950] was about technically triangular compositions then Seven Samurai [1954] is about cinematically crowd compositions. I am amazed w...
As René Descartes meditated on the nature of mind and warned that I can know my mind beyond doubt but it's nearly impossible to know the other's mind; however, I can imitate the great Dickensian phrase: It is the best of thing and it is the worst of thing that I don't have the direct sense data of what's going on other's mind, therefore, I will invite to take the medication as Sigrid Nunez has prescribed, "be kind, because everyone you meet is going through a struggle." From The Friend 's dog, Nunez hands us over to a Scheherazade-like talking cat in the constant serendipity of "What Are You Going Through" (Riverhead Books, 2020), that whispers the sibilant monologues and reflections of a voluntary childless woman who rents a room through Airbnb in a small cando of a "depressing" widow with a dead cat in late September 2017 to visit a terminally ill friend who is "swing between euphoria and depression" with her toxic r...
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