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Saturday, January 2, 2021

Books I've read last year

2020 as yr of the French; Read Proust, Flaubert, Zola, Balzac, de Beauvoir, Camus.. Criticism of Sartre/de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, Aron, Camus, etc. by Kolakowski & Judt. Bio of Marc Bloch.  Reading Henry James's criticisms of French writers(LOA)

Of UK/USA writers, finished Joyce's Ulysses, also read Robert Byron, Paul Fussell, Trollope, Compton-Burnett, Gaskell, Allingham(diary), George Eliot, Greene, C. V. Wedgwood, Tuchman, Hobsbawm, Vidal..finished Gibbon's vol.6, Steven Runciman, Mencken's 'Prejudices' 4-6th series, Gerard Brenan's 'Spanish Labyrinth', Mervyn Peake..

Of Big Tomes, read Murasaki Shikibu's 'Tale of Genji', Royall Tyler version

Of bios; Gibbon(only vol. 2 by Craddock), Goethe(vol. 2 by Boyle, read vol. 1 ages ago), Marc Bloch(Fink), Hobsbawm(Evans), Joseph Stilwell(Tuchman), John Ford(McBride), Jed Harris, Robert Evans(autobio)..

 


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