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M Sarki
Besides being a poet with four collections published, M Sarki is a painter, film maker, and photographer. He likes fine coffee and long walks.
M Sarki has written, directed, and produced six short films titled Gnoman's Bois de Rose, Biscuits and Striola , The Tools of Migrant Hunters, My Father's Kitchen, GL, and Cropped Out 2010. More details to follow. Also the author of the feature film screenplay, Alphonso Bow.
Currently reading
L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
We Learn Nothing: Essays
Elmet: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived: Short Stories
The Double Life of Liliane
At Home with the Armadillo
American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
Autumn
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (Reading Edition)
American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
I came across this title because of the translator, Carol Brown Janeway, has translated such wonderful and brilliant writers as Thomas Bernhard and Sándor Márai in addition to Yasmina Reza. I felt that if Janeway translated these two literary giants there must be something redeeming for her to translate Yasmina Reza. Reza is from a different vein, but still extremely sophisticated in her approach to fiction on the page. Some reviewers have remarked that she is no Beckett, and I would agree but for what reason she would be compared to Beckett is beyond me. The best and most important writer she reminds me of would be J.D. Salinger. Much of her writing is monologue and takes place in the course of a single day although the memories and experiences presented are taken from another moment of the past. I find her writing to be relaxed and intelligent, offering a point of view I may or may not have previously considered. Her writing is refreshing as is the cantankerous and often venting characters she chooses to have lift their heavy burdens off their chests. Reza often writes in the voice of a male protagonist and I find her work remarkably believable. I am not sure why she isn't more revered here in the USA. This was the first book I have read by her and I am eager to read many more. Yasmina Reza has swiftly become one of my favorite female writers. In Desolation the old man questions not only his spoiled son's idea of happiness but even consequently his own idea of it. There is much he does not understand and as he thinks aloud there is much he wants to get to the bottom of. The last third of the book is an adventure with an old lady friend who he meets for a long lunch and conversation. A purely enjoyable read and one I highly recommend for both sexes.