For this research project, I spend hours and hours every day reading. This takes me back to when I was doing my undergrad in Montreal, and everything was dreamlike because all I did was read. For days now, I have felt very young and carefree.
Another similarity is that these books only exist on paper. I haven’t read so much on paper in years.
I’m also planning to watch some of the movies that meant a lot to Chirbes. He loved movies, but from what I’m seeing in the diaries, he was only interested in the films from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. This is perfect because later cinematic production of Spain and France, which are the two countries the writer watched movies from the most, would be intolerable to me. Hollywood movies I only like from the 1980s and maybe very early 1990s.
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