Reading list 2011
Anon - Njal's Saga (tr. Magnus Magnusson); Anon - The Mahabharata (tr. John Smith); Boccaccio - The Decameron; Tadeusz Borowski - This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman; Cervantes - Don Quixote; Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate; E.T.A Hoffmann - Tales; M.R. James - Ghost stories; Camara Laye - The Radiance of the King; Mario Vargas Llosa - The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta; Francois Mauriac - Therese; Oblomov - Goncharov; Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel (tr. M A Screech); Jose Saramago - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis; Lao She - Rickshaw Boy; Soseki - I am a Cat; Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island; Swift - Gulliver's Travels; Lu Xun - Diary of a Madman and Other Stories; Chretien de Troyes - Perceval: The Story of the Grail (tr. Burton Raffel); The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes (tr. Robert Alter)
Non-fiction as it currently stands:
Erich Auerbach - Mimesis: The Reality of Representation in Western Literature; Robert Caro - The Path to Power; Luis Bunuel - My Last Sigh; Victor Serge - Memoirs of a Revolutionary; Jacques Ranciere - The Ignorant Schoolmaster; Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall...(abridged); Andrew Kopkind - The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994; Klaus Theweleit - Male Fantasies Vol. I: Women, Floods, Bodies, History; Nadezhda Mandelstam - Hope Against Hope; Kafka - Letter to his Father; Leonardo Sciascia - The Moro Affair; Robert Musil - Diaries 1899-1942; Vasari - The Lives of the Artists; Aleister Crowley - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
Yr suggestions welcome
Non-fiction as it currently stands:
Erich Auerbach - Mimesis: The Reality of Representation in Western Literature; Robert Caro - The Path to Power; Luis Bunuel - My Last Sigh; Victor Serge - Memoirs of a Revolutionary; Jacques Ranciere - The Ignorant Schoolmaster; Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall...(abridged); Andrew Kopkind - The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994; Klaus Theweleit - Male Fantasies Vol. I: Women, Floods, Bodies, History; Nadezhda Mandelstam - Hope Against Hope; Kafka - Letter to his Father; Leonardo Sciascia - The Moro Affair; Robert Musil - Diaries 1899-1942; Vasari - The Lives of the Artists; Aleister Crowley - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley.
Yr suggestions welcome