It seems like mere moments, but in fact it’s been nine months since my last post listing the forthcoming books I was looking forward to reading. In most cases the books on that last list were acquired, though I’ve read only four of the nineteen listed, though remain interested in reading the others. This year I’m acquiring fewer books, but the following are mostly irresistible:
- Antonio Negri, Spinoza: Then and Now
- Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
- Denise Riley, Time Lived, Without Its Flow
- Rachel Mann, A Kingdom of Love
- Yiyun Li, Must I Go
- Karl Ole Knausgaard, In the Land of the Cyclops
- Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Burning Case for a New Green Deal
- J. M. Coetzee, The Death of Jesus
- Roberto Calasso, The Celestial Hunter
- Vivian Gornick, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader
- S. D. Chrostowska, The Eyelid
- Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs
- Sergio Chejfec, The Incompletes
- Kate Zambreno, Drifts
- Lars Iyer, Nietzsche and The Burbs
- Vladimir Nabokov, Think, Write, Speak
- Alistair Ian Blythe, Card Catalogue
- Peter Weiss, The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II
- Luis Goytisolo, The Greens of May Down to the Sea: Antagony, Book II
- Rene Wellek & Austin Warren, Theory of Literature
Forget Houellebecq, it’s terrible. It wd be a waste of money and was badly received here.
Your Foucault post evokes Wittgenstein. And Contre-jour by Josipovici, on what to do what the sayable / unsayable
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Like the three-volume reprint set of Marías’s ‘Your face tomorrow’, that Bazlen is a somewhat Beckettian enterprise – only ever published tomorrow.
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I’ve not read Marias and am never quite sure it’s my sort of thing. Is the trilogy a good jumping off point for his work?
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I have not read him either, but as an immigrant in the UK I am always interested in seeing how other foreigners see the country and its rather unique ways. (Or should that be countries? Clearly, I have a lot to learn.) The mixture of Oxbridge and a spy thriller sounds quite fascinating.
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Is the Coetzee a follow up to the Schooldays of Jesus.?
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Yes, presumably the last of the trilogy.
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I wasn’t keen on the earlier ones so will skip this
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No Krasznahorkai? “Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming” has been top of my list since it was announced last November! Hope the release date doesn’t get delayed at the last minute (Houllebecq was supposed to be the same Sept. 24 date but got moved to Nov. 19 – different publisher’s obviously).
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Krasznahorkai, though there are certain set pieces I like, isn’t for me.
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