Author: Greg

Literatura Mexicana

Here are some Mexican authors and novels to read. Carlos Fuentes, *The Death of Artemio Cruz, The Old Gringo, Terra Nostra Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo Elena Garro, Recollections of Things to Come Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs Martín Luis Guzmán, The Eagle and the Serpent, The Shadow of the Strongman

Murakami Authors

Authors mentioned by Murakami in Norwegian Wood: Osamu Dazai Balzac Dante Conrad Dickens Truman Capote John Updike (Centaurs in particular) Raymond Chandler Kazumi Takahashi Kenzaburo Oe Yukio Mishima “Contemporary French novelists” Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain Hermann Hesse, Beneath the Wheel Tennessee Williams Georges Bataille Boris Vian

Some Writers to Consider

Kantůrková (Czech dissident writer during the Soviet invasion) George Meredith, The Egoist, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Diana of the Crossways Kosinski Roth Bellows Burroughs Miller Joyce Pynchon Malraux Céline Genet Mann Solzhenitsyn Yourcenar Duras Moravia Gide Cohen (Albert) Mauriac Queneau Lawrence (D.H.) Sagan (Francoise) Kundera Mailer Woolf Dos Passos Eliot Bronte (Charlotte) Ford (Ford) […]

Wittgenstein

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. The next reading in the philosophy group is going to be Wittgenstein. Old Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations. Go here for all of Wittgenstein’s books. https://gregoryberry.net/library/philosophy/wittgenstein We will read the Tractatus first, then Philosophical Investigations. The Blue and Brown Books are after that, for reference. The Tractatus has […]