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Ace of Spades
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Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)
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Piranesi
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A big head scratcher for me. László Krasznahorkai won this year's Nobel for literature and I have seen a lot of people talking more about him being a "zionist" than his work in literature. I sincerely understand the severity of the Israel Palestinian conflict and I do believe what Israel is doing is a genocide but I've seen so many people brushing an author or their career's work aside just because they happen to be Jewish or have a zionist view. László Krasznahorkai's work is staple in human pessimism and gives one a deeper look in how it takes root in everyday life but half of the people who wish to be on the "right side of history" wouldn't engage with those ideas or books just because this one reason.
I see these communities which, rather than being based on the quality of books or the topics discussed, are based on "Non-Zionist bookclub". I've seen people showing disinterest in books they actually were about to read because "oh, he's zionist now I have to get ride of everything I wanted to read." I do not understand this performative behavior and I do not think that these people care for reading literature but about being considered as morally right.
I want to have a discussion because if I stayed in my own brain's echo chamber I might miss upon any other sincere answer to why it's not performative.