A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Therese Bohman, Drowned: A Novel, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (New York: Other Press, 2011).

Therese Bohman, The Other Woman: A Novel, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (New York: Other Press, 2015):

[P]eople can become so obsessed with theories and structures that their whole life is nothing more than an attempt to navigate around them, they refuse to take off their blinkers, to understand that theories are _theories_, not truths, you can't just use them randomly in reality, you can't use the same tools in life as you would in [] textual analysis . . . You can't live according to theories. It shows a complete lack of respect for life itself.

_Id_. at 108.

Therese Bohman, Eventide: A Novel, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (New York: Other Press, 2018).