Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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On this week’s vlog: an International Booker Prize author, a new novel, French philosophy; reading & thinking about repetition, playing roles, perception, performance, instances; letting dark days pass through me; making art

books:
On the Calculation of Volume (II) by Solvej Balle (trans. Barbara J. Haveland) (2020)
Audition by Katie Kitamura (2025)
Le Je-ne-sais-quoi et le presque-rien (I) by Vladimir Jankélévitch (1980)
La Musique et l'ineffable (Music and the Ineffable) by by Vladimir Jankélévitch (1961)

socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com