Readings in 2010
Submitted by jaimeblack on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:29
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- “They don’t call ’em exploitation movies for nothing!”: Joe Bob Briggs and the Critical Commentary on I Spit on Your Grave, Tristan Fidler (e)
- The Aesthetics of Hunger, Glauber Rocha (e)
- All That You Love Will Be Carried Away, Stephen King (s)
- Another Pioneer, David Foster Wallace (s)
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner (n)
- Autopsy Room Four, Stephen King (s)
- Berenice, Edgar A. Poe (s)
- Birth of a New Vanguard - The Camera Stylo, Alexandre Astruc (e)
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami (s)
- Bonsai, Alejandro Zambra (nll)
- (lit. Book of All Things and Much More), Francisco de Quevedo (ex)
- The Challenge, Mario Vargas Llosa (s)
- Charlie Chaplin, André Bazin (e)
- The Cinema of Poetry, Pier Paolo Pasolini (e)
- The Craze for Speaking Latin, Francisco de Quevedo (ex)
- (lit. Death in Shanghai), Juan Marín (nll)
- The Death of Jack Hamilton, Stephen King (s)
- The Devoted Friend, Oscar Wilde (s)
- The Electric Executioner, Adolphe de Castro and H.P. Lovecraft (s)
- Enoch, Robert Bloch (s)
- (Epistolary of the Tenaza's Knight), Francisco de Quevedo (ex)
- The Film and the New Psychology, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (e)
- The Fisherman and His Soul, Oscar Wilde (s)
- (lit. Five Sailors and a Green Coffin), Francisco Coloane (s)
- (lit. Forgotten Land), Francisco Coloane (s)
- (lit. The Girl of the 'Crillón'), Joaquín Edwards Bello (n)
- The Grandfather, Mario Vargas Llosa (s)
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett (n)
- The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde (s)
- Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway (s)
- House of the Hatchet, Robert Bloch (s)
- Imitation of Life, R.W. Fassbinder (e)
- (lit. In the Aurora Horse), Francisco Coloane (s)
- The Island of Time, R. A. Montgomery (cyoa)
- Kar, Orhan Pamuk (n)
- The Lake, Yasunari Kawabata (n)
- The Leaders, Mario Vargas Llosa (s)
- (lit. The Lighthouse Builder), Francisco Coloane (s)
- The Man in the Black Suit, Stephen King (s)
- Memorial, Francisco de Quevedo (ex)
- (lit. Message to Rafaela Ortega, in Castilla), Gabriela Mistral (po)
- (lit. Message to Victoria Ocampo, in Argentina), Gabriela Mistral (po)
- (lit. Message to the 'Residencia de Pedralbes', in Cataluña), Gabriela Mistral (po)
- Mr. Justice Harbottle, Sheridan le Fanu (s)
- The Nightingale and the Rose, Oscar Wilde (s)
- Oblivion, David Foster Wallace (s)
- On Godard's Vivre sa vie, Susan Sontag (e)
- (lit. On How the Chilot Otey Died), Francisco Coloane (s)
- On Some Functions of Literature, Umberto Eco (e)
- On Sunday, Mario Vargas Llosa (s)
- The People Can, Chuck Palahniuk (e)
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, David Foster Wallace (s)
- (lit. Reed Bottle), Francisco Coloane (s)
- Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King (s)
- Sabotage, Jay Seibold (cyoa)
- The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde (s)
- Sem'ya Vurdalaka, Alexei Tolstoi (s)
- The Shambler from the Stars, Robert Bloch (s)
- (lit. Shipwreck), Juan Marín (nll)
- Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata (n)
- The Soul Is Not a Smithy, David Foster Wallace (s)
- The Stranger's Room, Choi In-ho (s)
- (lit. Submerged Ice Floe), Francisco Coloane (s)
- The Suffering Channel, David Foster Wallace (s)
- Tala, Gabriela Mistral (pob)
- (lit. Tale of Tales), Francisco de Quevedo (s)
- Theatre of Cruelty, Terry Pratchett (s)
- (lit. Things most current and used in Madrid), Francisco de Quevedo (ex)
- Tierra del Fuego, Francisco Coloane (s)
- The Time of the Hero, Mario Vargas Llosa (n)
- (lit. To Puerto Edén), Francisco Coloane (s)
- (lit. TV Programing at War), Hugo di Guglielmo (eb)
- The Vampyre, John William Polidori (s)
- A Visitor, Mario Vargas Llosa (s)
- The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains, Frederick Marryat (s)
- Willa, Stephen King (s)
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin (e)
- The Younger Brother, Mario Vargas Llosa (s)
- Your Code Name is Jonah, Edward Packard (cyoa)
Author Comments:
(cyoa) = choose your own adventure
(e) = essay
(eb) = essay book
(ex) = experimental
(n) = novel
(nll) = novella
(pg) = poem group
(po) = poetry
(pob) = poetry book
(r) = reportage
(s) = short story
(sc) = script
(so) = sociologyso
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The Nightingale and the Rose is my favorite tale by Wilde, there is an aria about it that I hear over and over:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLdr69vtNOI
Still, I suggest The Picture of Dorian Gray if you like the author, one of his most interesting work.
I'm looking forward Dorian Gray, some day I'll buy it.
I personally like The Happy Prince, read it as a kid and it really holds up.
Do you have good read this year ?
I have two books that had go to my top 10 (The Arrival, The Wall), but I think I've been lucky.
The most interesting surprise was a Chilean novella, "Shipwreck" AKA "Naufragio" in spanish, is really obscure, can't find any info on it, or even about the author Juan Marín on the internet, not even in spanish. It's the story about a (duh) shipwreck, but it's very wisely told, you can say that it "cuts the crap" and gets to the point. There are interesting monologues and everything in under 80 pages, it turned to be something I really liked (like Robinson, but shorter) and a theme that you don't always find in chilean literature.
Now I'm reading from the same author another novella called "Death in Shanghai", that sounds like a pulp chilean novel, so I'm excited.
I'm also reading Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and I can already feel that it will end up on my Top 10.
Good. I've try that Eco book, but it was too complicated when I try it, I have to always check the dictionary and I give up. But it was a lot of years ago, maybe I should give it another try or read The Name of the Rose or The Island of the Day Before from him.