Force into depth
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A collection of short stories by Süskind that leaves a lasting impression
This book brings together four short stories by Patrick Süskind: “The Force of Depth,” “The Match,” “The Testament of the Craftsman Mussard,” and the essay “The Amnesia of Literature.”
This is a collection of works that allows one to read the author's perspective on the world through the long blank spaces left behind the short stories.
This book brings together four short stories by Patrick Süskind: “The Force of Depth,” “The Match,” “The Testament of the Craftsman Mussard,” and the essay “The Amnesia of Literature.”
This is a collection of works that allows one to read the author's perspective on the world through the long blank spaces left behind the short stories.
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Force into depth
Match
The will of the craftsman Mussar
Literary amnesia
Match
The will of the craftsman Mussar
Literary amnesia
Into the book
[The young female artist has great talent, and her works attract a lot of attention at first sight.
But unfortunately they lack depth.]
--- p.9
For the next week she didn't touch the painting at all.
She sat in silence in her house, lost in thought, with only one thought in her head.
It clung to all other thoughts and swallowed them up like a squid that lives in the deep sea.
[Why am I so shallow?]
--- p.10
But of course he won again.
And this victory was the most disgusting in his life.
Because, to avoid it, I was denying myself, lowering myself, and kneeling before the most insignificant rookie in the world while playing chess.
--- p.35
If anyone here accuses me of making claims that are either imaginary or unprovable, I would like to ask him:
Don't you realize that as the years go by, your body hardens like a fossil, you become numb, and your body and soul wither away?
--- p.57
What was the question? Oh, right. What book has impressed me, left a lasting impression, etched itself deeply into my heart, shaken me upside down, [led my life in a new direction], or [changed the way I lived up to that point]?
--- p.67
But then, when I pick up my pencil to scratch out, "This is great!", what I'm about to write is already written there.
And the point I was thinking of writing down was already written down by someone who read the article before me.
It was a handwriting that was very familiar to me, my own.
The person who read the book before was none other than myself.
I read that book a long time ago.
But unfortunately they lack depth.]
--- p.9
For the next week she didn't touch the painting at all.
She sat in silence in her house, lost in thought, with only one thought in her head.
It clung to all other thoughts and swallowed them up like a squid that lives in the deep sea.
[Why am I so shallow?]
--- p.10
But of course he won again.
And this victory was the most disgusting in his life.
Because, to avoid it, I was denying myself, lowering myself, and kneeling before the most insignificant rookie in the world while playing chess.
--- p.35
If anyone here accuses me of making claims that are either imaginary or unprovable, I would like to ask him:
Don't you realize that as the years go by, your body hardens like a fossil, you become numb, and your body and soul wither away?
--- p.57
What was the question? Oh, right. What book has impressed me, left a lasting impression, etched itself deeply into my heart, shaken me upside down, [led my life in a new direction], or [changed the way I lived up to that point]?
--- p.67
But then, when I pick up my pencil to scratch out, "This is great!", what I'm about to write is already written there.
And the point I was thinking of writing down was already written down by someone who read the article before me.
It was a handwriting that was very familiar to me, my own.
The person who read the book before was none other than myself.
I read that book a long time ago.
--- p.71
Publisher's Review
A collection of short stories by Süskind that leaves a lasting impression
This book brings together four short stories by Patrick Süskind: “The Force of Depth,” “The Match,” “The Testament of the Craftsman Mussard,” and the essay “The Amnesia of Literature.”
This is a collection of works that allows one to read the author's perspective on the world through the long blank spaces left behind the short stories.
The first included work, “Force of Depth,” sharply depicts the problems of artists, a subject that Süskind often deals with, using a young female painter as the subject.
The irony of life is cynically expressed by contrasting an artist who agonizes over a critic's indifferent comment that [her work lacks depth] and finally chooses death, with [the] critic changing his perspective after her death and saying that in her paintings one can feel the passion to delve into life and [the compulsion for depth].
"The Match" tells the story of two chess players.
We can catch a glimpse of ordinary citizens in the figures of [Jang], an old chess master who has secured a certain position by strictly following the rules of society, but is always anxious about maintaining the status quo, a young challenger who boldly ignores conventions and charges forward passionately and courageously without being obsessed with the result, and the onlookers who dream of the same desires as the challenger, although they have neither achieved anything like Jang nor have the guts to jump in boldly like the challenger.
But this short story also teaches us that we must not prejudge or predict anything until we reach a certain conclusion.
"The Testament of the Craftsman Mussard" is a work set in 18th-century France in which Mussard, a successful jeweler facing death, concisely expresses his life and worldview in the form of a will.
Musar, a jeweler, discovers a rock clam in his garden one day, and begins to feel that the world and humans are gradually turning into rock clams and petrifying.
This world is like a clam that keeps its mouth tightly shut, unable to reveal its soft, flexible, living, breathing inner self.
The last included essay, “Literary Amnesia,” explores the relationship between literature and our lives.
Through a glimpse into the author's own reading experience, we come to realize that reading is an experience that gradually brings about small changes within us without us even realizing it.
Suskind turns a warm gaze to the small stories of life that are easily overlooked when caught up in the grand narrative, and leisurely expresses the world governed by the principles of reality through the metaphorical language of art that turns a blind eye to reality.
This book brings together four short stories by Patrick Süskind: “The Force of Depth,” “The Match,” “The Testament of the Craftsman Mussard,” and the essay “The Amnesia of Literature.”
This is a collection of works that allows one to read the author's perspective on the world through the long blank spaces left behind the short stories.
The first included work, “Force of Depth,” sharply depicts the problems of artists, a subject that Süskind often deals with, using a young female painter as the subject.
The irony of life is cynically expressed by contrasting an artist who agonizes over a critic's indifferent comment that [her work lacks depth] and finally chooses death, with [the] critic changing his perspective after her death and saying that in her paintings one can feel the passion to delve into life and [the compulsion for depth].
"The Match" tells the story of two chess players.
We can catch a glimpse of ordinary citizens in the figures of [Jang], an old chess master who has secured a certain position by strictly following the rules of society, but is always anxious about maintaining the status quo, a young challenger who boldly ignores conventions and charges forward passionately and courageously without being obsessed with the result, and the onlookers who dream of the same desires as the challenger, although they have neither achieved anything like Jang nor have the guts to jump in boldly like the challenger.
But this short story also teaches us that we must not prejudge or predict anything until we reach a certain conclusion.
"The Testament of the Craftsman Mussard" is a work set in 18th-century France in which Mussard, a successful jeweler facing death, concisely expresses his life and worldview in the form of a will.
Musar, a jeweler, discovers a rock clam in his garden one day, and begins to feel that the world and humans are gradually turning into rock clams and petrifying.
This world is like a clam that keeps its mouth tightly shut, unable to reveal its soft, flexible, living, breathing inner self.
The last included essay, “Literary Amnesia,” explores the relationship between literature and our lives.
Through a glimpse into the author's own reading experience, we come to realize that reading is an experience that gradually brings about small changes within us without us even realizing it.
Suskind turns a warm gaze to the small stories of life that are easily overlooked when caught up in the grand narrative, and leisurely expresses the world governed by the principles of reality through the metaphorical language of art that turns a blind eye to reality.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: April 20, 2020
- Page count, weight, size: 88 pages | 190g | 121*216*10mm
- ISBN13: 9788932920238
- ISBN10: 8932920230
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