The 10 books I'm taking to Germany:
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Blade Runner, by Philip K. Dick (in German)
Dissemination, by Jacques Derrida
Go Down, Moses, by William Faulkner
Light in August, by William Faulkner
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida, by John Caputo
Sanctuary, by William Faulkner
Selected Poems by Robert Creeley
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
How long will you be in Deutschland for?
ReplyDeleteI'll be back in March to get married, but I'm going for a total of four years.
ReplyDeleteGoing through a bit of a Faulk fix, eh? Good call on all of them.
ReplyDeleteFantastic list! I just finished all the Yoknapawpha novels and recommend you take a few more! Not that reading them with such focus was very good for my writing....
ReplyDeleteIt's a good list. Everybody needs to go through a Faulkner period, I think. It will do your sentences good. Or at least once you are beyond it, it will. My favorite sentences are the ones that last three pages and you don't know what the verb will be until the very end. And that's very German, actually.
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ReplyDeleteI generally read in "projects." I've been working on a "modern to contemporary American novel" project for a while, and this is part of that. It works in Germany, because I wanted a set of books that would need to be read slowly, constantly and several times.