Unwittingly I’ve been accumulating quite a stack of East European writers to read, so I plan to tackle the following during the first six months of this year. My eastward direction is perhaps a guilty reaction to my failure to head west to pursue my commitment to the Savage Detectives Group Read. I’m consumed with Krasznahorkai at present and don’t wish to read anything else for a few more weeks.

1. The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
2. War & War – László Krasznahorkai
3. Sátántango – László Krasznahorkai
4. Embers – Sándor Márai
5. Parallel Stories – Péter Nádas
6. Fiasco – Imre Kertész
7. Dukla – Andrzej Stasiuk
8. Memories of the Future – Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
9. Theory of Prose – Viktor Shklovsky
10. The Book Of Hrabal– Péter Esterházy
11. The Foundation Pit – Andrei Platonov
12. Skylark – Dezső Kosztolányi
13. The Notebook / The Proof / The Third Lie – Ágota Kristóf