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English Majors/Minors 207 books / 239 members / 445 posts This group is for English majors or minors, but anyone is welcome. What I hope to attract with the group title are literature analysts, people who thoroughly enjoy studying novels, short stories, essays, whatever. Maybe I can even lure in some who actually like to peruse a bit of criticism now and then, though I must admit only the most intriguing topics can take me this far.

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اورهان پاموک
برگردان: تهمينه زاردشت

مفهوم تعلق به يک کشور
در سال 1959، هفت ساله بودم که پدرم به صورتي مرموز گم وگور شد. هفته‮ها بعد، باخبر شديم در هتل ارزاني در مونتپارناس پاريس به سر مي برد. داشت دفترچه‮هاي يادداشتي را پرمي‮کرد که بعدها آن‮ها را به من مي‮داد. گاه‮گاه موفق مي‮شد از کافه دؤم Dome، ژان پل سارتر را موقع عبور از خيابان ببيند. اوايل مادربزرگم از استانبول برايش پول مي‮فرستاد. پدربزرگم در کارخانه توليد ريل‮هاي راه آهن ثروتي به هم زده بود و به‮خاطر پيگيري پرآب چشم مادربزرگم، پدر و عموهايم هنوز ميراث‮شان را تمام و کمال به باد نداده بودند (هنوز همه آپارتمان‮ها را نفروخته بودند). با اين وجود مادربزرگم، بيست و پنج سال بعد از مرگ شوهرش به اين نتيجه رسيد که پول دارد ته مي‮کشد و از کمک مالي به پسرش که در پاريس زندگي بي‮قيد هنرمندانه‮اي، در پيش گرفته بود، دست برداشت.
اين طوري بود که پدرم به صف طويل روشنفکران بي پول و تيره روز ترک پيوست که صد سال بود سرگشته خيابان‮هاي پاريس بودند. پدرم درست مثل پدربزرگ و عموهايم، مهندس بود و استعداد خوبي در زمينه رياضيات داشت. پول‮هايش که ته کشيد، به آگهي روزنامه براي شغلي در I.B.Mپاسخ گفت. بعد از استخدام از طرف شرکت، عازم جنوا شد. آن روزها، کامپيوترها هنوز با کارت‮هاي منگنه‮دار به‮کارگرفته مي‮شدند و عموم مردم چيز زيادي از کامپيوتر نمي‮دانستند. پدرم يکي از اولين کارکنان ترک خارجي در اروپا بود. خيلي زود مادرم، برادر بزرگترم و مرا در خانه مجلل و پرجمعيت مادربزرگم، گذاشت و به او ملحق شد. قرار شد در تعطيلات تابستاني مدرسه، ما هم از پس مادرم به جنوا برويم. و اين يعني لازم بود پاسپورت بگيريم.
يادم هست مجبور شدم مدتي طولاني ژست بگيرم تا عکاس پير زير پارچه سياه آن اسباب سه پاي فانوس دار، وربرود. براي اين‮که نور را روي صفحه شيميايي بياندازد، بايد عدسي را به طرفه‮العيني باز مي‮کرد که اين کار را با تلنگر ظريف دستش انجام مي‮داد اما قبل از انجام آن، نگاهي به ما مي‮انداخت و مي‮گفت:«آهااااان». به‮خاطر اين‮که اين عکاس واقعاً بنظرم خنده دار مي‮آمد توي عکس اولين پاسپورتم به نظر مي‮رسد خودم را گرفته‮ام. پاسپورت، موهايم را که احتمالاً از آغاز سال اولين بار براي عکس گرفتن شانه شده بودند، قهوه‮اي بلوطي نشان مي‮دهد. بايد پس از آن پاسپورتم را خيلي سريع تورق کرده باشم که متوجه نشده‮ام رنگ چشمانم را اشتباه ثبت کرده‮اند. سي سال بعد که بازش کردم، به اين اشتباه حساس شدم. آن‮چه آموختم، اين بود که پاسپورت سندي نيست که نشانمان بدهد کي هستيم بلکه سندي است که نشان مي‮دهد بقيه مردم درباره ما چگونه فکر مي‮کنند.
طي پروازمان به جنوا با پاسپورت‮هاي نويي که توي جيب ژاکت‮هاي نويمان داشتيم، ترس بر ما غلبه کرد. هواپيما موقع فرود، يک وري شد و کشوري که سوييس ناميده مي شد به نظرمان مکاني رسيد که همه چيز، حتي ابرهايش، تا آخر دنيا روي شيب تندي قرار داشت. بعد گردش هواپيما تمام شد و بلافاصله صاف شد. من و برادرم هنوز هم خنده‮مان مي‮گيرد وقتي فراغ بال زماني را به ياد مي‮آوريم که فهميديم اين کشور جديد مثل استامبول روي زمين صاف قرار دارد.
خيابان‮هاي هلند تميزتر و آرام‮تر از خيابان‮هاي وطن‮مان بودند. ويترينها خيلي متنوع‮تر بودند و تعداد ماشين‮ها هم بيشتر بود. گداها مثل استامبول با دست خالي گدايي نمي کردند، بلکه زير پنجره‮ات مي‮ايستادند و آکاردئون مي‮زدند. قبل اين‮که پول را توي دست گداي محله بياندازيم مادرم آن‮را داخل کاغذي مي‮پيچيد.
آپارتمان ما (که از آن تا پلهاي روي رودخانه روهنه پياده پنج دقيقه راه بود و در مسيري قرار داشت که از درياچه جنوا ديده مي‮شد)، مبله اجاره شده بود. اين طوري بود که با نشستن پشت ميزهايي که قبلاً کسان ديگري رويش نشسته بودند، با استفاده از ليوان‮ها و بشقابهايي که کسان ديگري از آنها نوشيده و تويشان غذا خورده بودند و خوابيدن توي تختهايي که بعد از سالها گهواره آدم‮هاي خوابيده بودن، فرسوده شده بودند، به زندگي در کشور ديگري خوگرفتم. کشور ديگر، کشوري بود که به ديگران تعلق داشت. مجبور بوديم اين حقيقت را بپذيريم که چيزهائي که از آن‮ها استفاده مي کنيم هيچ‮وقت امکان ندارد به خودمان تعلق يابند و اين‮که اين کشور، اين سرزمين ديگر هم هيچ‮وقت به ما تعلق نخواهد داشت.
تابستان آن سال، مادرم که در استانبول در مدرسه فرانسوي تحصيل کرده بود، هر روز صبح ما را پشت ميز غذاخوري مي‮نشاند و سعي مي‮کرد به ما فرانسه بياموزد. وقتي توي مدرسه ابتدايي ايالتي نام نويسي کرديم، فهميديم که هيچ چيز نياموخته‮ايم. والدينم اميدوار بودند که با صرف گوش دادن مداوم به معلم، فرانسه بياموزيم، اما ما نياموختيم. وقتي زمان تنفس آغاز مي‮شد، برادرم و من بين جمع بچه هايي که بازي مي‮کردند، سرگردان مي‮مانديم تا همديگر را مي‮يافتيم و دست هم را مي‮گرفتيم. اين سرزمين خارجي، باغ بي‮پاياني بود پر از بچه هايي شاد. برادرم و من اين باغ را با اشتياق تماشا کرديم، از دور.
با اين‮که برادرم نمي توانست فرانسه صحبت کند، توي کلاس‮شان از همه بهتر مي‮توانست اعداد را واروونه و سه تايي تا صفر بشمارد. در اين مدرسه که چيزي از زبانش سردرنمي آوردم، فقط در سکوت کردن بااستعداد بودم. درست مثل تقلا براي بيدار شدن از خوابي که در آن هيچ‮کس حرف نمي‮زند، با سرسختي کوشيدم به مدرسه نروم. درون گرايي من در اين سرزمين، مرا در برابر دشواري‮هاي زندگي حفظ کرد، بعدها در شهرها و مدارس ديگر هم همين‮طور. اما از نعمات زندگي هم محرومم ساخت. روزي والدينم، برادرم را هم از مدرسه بيرون آوردند. پاسپورت‮هايمان را کف دستانمان گذاشتند و ما را از جنوا دور کرده به نزد مادربزرگم در استانبول فرستادند.
من ديگر هيچ‮وقت از اين پاسپورت استفاده نکردم. هرچند کلمات«عضو انجمن اروپا» را بر خود داشت اما يادآوري بر اولين مسافرت ناکام من به اروپا بود و حدت تصميمم براي درونگرايي، چنان بود که بايد بيست و پنج سال ديگر مي گذشت، تا دوباره از ترکيه خارج شوم. جوان که بودم، با تحسين و حسادت به کساني که پاسپورت مي‮گرفتند و به اروپا و جاهايي دورتر از اروپا مسافرت مي‮کردند، مي‮نگريستم، برخلاف موقعيتهايي که برايم پيش آمد، بيم زده مطمئن ماندم که سرنوشتم نشستن در گوشه‮اي از استانبول و سپردن خودم به کتابهايي است که اميد داشتم روزي اسمم را سرزبان‮ها خواهند انداخت و به اوجم خواهند رساند. آن روزها، باورم بر اين بود که مي‮توان اروپا را از طريق شاهکارهايش شناخت.
نهايتاً کتاب‮هايم بودند که باعث شدند درخواست گرفتن دومين پاسپورتم را بکنم. بعد سالهايي که به تنهايي در يک اتاق سپري شدند، موفق شدم از خودم يک نويسنده بسازم و حالا به توري در آلمان دعوت شده بودم، جايي که پناهگاه سياسي بسياري از ترک‮ها بوده. تصور مي‮شد اين ترک‮ها از شنيدن بازخواني کتابهايم توسط خودم که در دست ترجمه به زبان آلماني بود، لذت خواهند برد. با اين که از تصور ملاقات با خوانندگان ترک در آلمان، با هيجاني مسرت‮بار درخواست پاسپورت کردم، طي همان سفر کوتاه پاسپورتم با نوعي «بحران هويتي» که از سال‮هاي پس آن مبتلا به بسياري ديگر بود، پيوند خورد (بحران اين مسئله که چقدر به کشوري که اولين پاسپورتمان را صادر کرده، تعلق داريم وچقدر به«کشورهاي ديگر» که اجازه ورود به ما مي دهند .)

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For the Modernists 15 books / 6 members / 12 posts Where I live, there seems to be a general lack in students who are as passionate about the Modern era of literature as I am. From Joyce, to Stein, to Barnes and Guggenheim, I would like to see what Modernist literature means to others.

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Books and Information Science 45 books / 17 members / 1 posts Welcome to the Books and Information Science group. Books about books and writers writing about writing are topics for this group. The usage and development of books and the written word over time is an enthralling topic that this group covers. Wikipedia describes information science as an, "interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information. Information science studies the application and usage of knowledge in organizations, and the interaction between people, organizations and information systems. It is often (mistakenly) considered a branch of computer science. It is actually a broad, interdisciplinary field, incorporating not only aspects of computer science, but also mathematics, library science, cognitive science, and the social sciences." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_science 3/26/08)

Please share historical, technical and fanciful books that touch on information science topics. Including discussion posts, reviews, ratings and tags on the books in this shelf would be great but are not required. Book choices are pretty open ended and include books about electronic publication authoring and indexing. Books about Google, Linux, Web authoring, XML and other technologies for distributing and indexing information would be good to include on this groups shelf.

Fiction and non-fiction books that touch on books, writing, reading, libraries, dictionaries and cataloging would be fun to share in this group. Even a Hemingway Novel that talks about his routine of going to the bar early in the day to write could be included or George Orwell's 1984 novel conveying the crime of owning a book. Sharing books on the history of writing and books is greatly appreciated. Ivan Illich's "In the Vineyard of the Text" and Thomas Cahill's, "How the Irish Saved Civilization" are two wonderful books that talk about medieval scriptoriums. Sharing delightful books like these is what this site is about.

Including science fiction and fantasy novels that touch upon artificial intelligence, information control, and the power of names and words could be a fun section and could grow to be a large part of this groups shelf. The politics of books and the role of the mass media and even Shelfari itself could be a topic for this group.

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Please note: This is a private group, mainly to keep out lurkers and tittlebats. If you’d like to join, please do not email the group administrator. Instead, do leave your card with Mrs. Danvers, along with a note on her page, explaining why you’d like to gambol amongst us and what you’d bring to the conversation in terms of your obsession with all literary things Angl-ish.

Much Prized: The ability to write a coherent sentence, a sense of humour, an appetite for stimulating intercourse and a deep and abiding love of British literature. The possession of a ridiculous British alias is much admired.

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“I must ask anyone entering the house never to contradict me or differ from me in any way, as it interferes with the functioning of the gastric juices and prevents my sleeping at night.” -- Posted at the entrance of Renishaw Hall, home of Sir George Reresby Sitwell

Dear Besotted Reader of British Literature,

Allow me to introduce you to our little circle, an oasis for those of you out there who suspect you’ve been born in the wrong country. You pale, lost souls who wish you could pepper your prose with spellings like “civilised” and “sense of humour” without eliciting raised eyebrows. You who stare at the clock wistfully at 3 pm and bemoan the fact that no steaming pot of tea and scrummy comestibles are nigh. You know who you are. You find yourself spending inordinate amounts of time reading Brontë, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Woolf, Waugh, Mitford, Wodehouse and basically any other writer with a British accent. You curse fate because you weren’t a member of the Bloomsbury group. To your chagrin, you’ve never found a body in your library. You long to find others of your ilk, soul-mates with whom you can prattle on about British literature, poetry, cinema and telly without receiving blank stares in return. My dears, you are not alone.

Step into the drawing room and tell us all about it. Would you like one lump, or two?

Yours cordially,

Terence ("Tinky") Egbert Ethelred Edward George Kitty Carlisle
1st Marquess of Manleigh, 14th Viscount Manleigh, KQHB (Knight of the Queen's Handbag)
Manleigh Hall, Studleigh-Under-Dureth, Sussex

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Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Our Group Reads (To Date)
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
Atonement by Ian McEwan
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Late Night Bookies 52 books / 63 members / 331 posts The Late Night Bookies is the book club that Optic Junkie and I started up about three years ago. We are located in the Rocky Mountain West in the United States--hot summers and bitter winters...but beautiful mountains and forests and wonderful people!

We called ourselves the Late Night Bookies--because we're pretty much late night people who love to read, our book clubs always go late, late into the evening...(read early morning hours)...and sometimes...if we start reading, we just can't stop until we've reached the end.

We've read a lot of books--had some book swaps, eaten some great food and had some good laughs along the way.

I wanted to share the books that we have read, as well as open up to discussion recommended books for future reading and ideas/recipes for continuing to enhance our book club experience.

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A weekend during a business trip a few years back.
I chose it because it could be dusk or dawn--a magical time, especially for the imaginative book reader!

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A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics)

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