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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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Marketing the Bolano
Graphs, Maps, Trees
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
Books I gave to Robert:
Jung’s The Red Book (amazing!)
The Tanners by Robert Walser
Bolano’s The Skating Rink
Kurt Schwitters’ Lucky Hans and Other Merz Tales
others gave to us:
Manahatta
The New York Times’ Front Pages, 1851-2009
The Intent On by Ken Irby
Gift Card which will be used directly for the new Coetzee.
Gave Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson to a relative.
My fiancee is amazing, heres my haul:
Pornografia-Witold Gombrowicz
Last Evenings on Earth-Roberto Bolano
By Night In Chile-Roberto Bolano
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-Stieg Larsson
The Killer Inside Me-Jim Thompson
Butcher’s Crossing-John Williams
Remainder-Tom McCarthy
Pale Fire-Vladimir Nabokov
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll-Alvaro Mutis
Await Your Reply-Dan Chaon
Ice-Vladimir Sorokin
Plus an Amazon gift certificate to pick up some more!
I got -
The Making of Americans – Stein
By Night in Chile – Bolano
The Magic Mountain – Mann
Three Novellas – Bernhard
Collected poems of Ashbery and Plath
them – JCO
The Golden Bowl – James
The Anxiety of Influence – Bloom
Harold Brodkey’s The Runaway Soul, Everyman editions of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party and Other Stories, Fergus Henderson’s (one of my favourite chefs) Nose to Tail Eating and W. G. Hoskins’s The Making of The English Landscape.
They gave me Vicente Luis Mora’s Tiempo and Jorge Luis Borges’ El Libro de Arena (I’m not convinced enough by the edition of his Obras Completas, and they are giving each Borges book that I don’t own and even I’ve read all more than twice, I MUST have all that books in my library). In Spain we also give lots of presents at January 6th, the Three Kings Day, so we’ll see.
Oh, and the book I buy was Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak, a little masterpiece that now, with the movie around there, has a beautiful edition without movie tie-ins luckily.
I almost forgot: I also gave Robert The Salt Smugglers by Gerard de Nerval, beautifully translated by Richard Sieburth.
I gave two collections of poetry by Raul Zurita. I will get to pick out my Xmas gift at the Strand next week while visiting NYC.
Gave: Rambaud’s History of Russia from the Earliest Times to 1877.
Received: The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. I-IV (box set).
Vocational Christmas Reading: Maps In Those Days: Cartographic Methods Before 1850.