2024 Annual Reading List
2024 Annual Reading List
2024 Annual Reading List
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| Erotism | Georges Bataille |
| The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity | Habermas |
| Lesser Logic | Hegel |
| Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity | Richard Rorty |
| The Great Cat Massacre | Robert Darnton |
| Naked Lunch | William Burroughs |
| The Plague | Camus |
| The Fall | — |
| Exile and the Kingdom | — |
| Notes from Underground | Dostoevsky |
| Strait Is the Gate | Gide |
| Against Nature | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| No One Writes to the Colonel | G. G. Marquez |
| Memories of My Melancholy Whores | — |
| The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor | — |
| Of Love and Other Demons | — |
| Bao Bian | Mu Xin |
| South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami |
| The City and Its Uncertain Walls | — |
| Lolita | Nabokov |
| Pale Fire | — |
| Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| Hollow Boat | Shibusawa Tatsuhiko |
| Arabesque Stories | — |
| The Sleeper | — |
| The Tales of Rain and the Moon | Ueda Akinari |
| The Tales of Spring Rain | — |
| Written on the Body | Jeanette Winterson |
| The Book of Imaginary Beings | Borges |
| Betwixt and Between | Camus |
| Nuptials | — |
| Summer | — |
| Notebooks II | Mu Xin |
| Gorgeous Food Magazine | Shibusawa Tatsuhiko |
| Love and Compassion | Zhang Dinghao |
| The Temptation of Saint Anthony | Gustave Flaubert |
| Faust | Goethe |
| Collections of Sakutaro Hagiwara | |
| The Death of Empedocles | Holderlin |
| Collections of Fernando Pessoa | |
| Collections of Shuji Terayama |
In Progress
- Night on the Galactic Railroad
- Qing Jia Lu
- The Book of Disquiet
- Adachi and Shimamura
- The Glass Bead Game
Notes
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity is, first and foremost, a manifesto of Rorty’s neopragmatism. The third part about Nabokov is particularly intriguing.
Pessoa’s sensationism needs no further introduction, but I am not one to enjoy carefully reading manifestos within poetry. Some of the critiques, as well as The Education of the Stoic, have a nice rhythm to them.
The decadent’s home decor manual, Against Nature: the neurotic protagonist constructs a world so intricate, with its overwhelming mix of incense, pigments, and shimmering surfaces, that it leaves one feeling dizzy.
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