Monday, February 23, 2009

Books

First of all texts in my dissertation (particularly those by Bolaño, Ponte and Loriga) are off-limits. It goes without saying that they have marked me deeply as a person because I have spent every moment of the past year with them.

The Quijote (not a surprise)

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich

Native Son – Richard Wright

Return to the River – Roderick Haig-Brown

Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne

A Thousand Plateaus – Deleuze and Guattari

Romancero gitano – Lorca

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy

Homer’s Odyssey

Ficciones – Borges

Baudelaire - Paris Spleen

The Collected Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

Metamorphosis – Kafka

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Black Boy – Richard Wright

Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami

Keeper of Sheep – Fernando Pessoa

Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

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