Recent Purchases

[spooooool]

Even as i buy all the time, my books still to be read must run to at least a thousand, which is bonkers. And mostly scholarly, philosophy, so very expensive

[Jan Mbali]

Originally Posted by Mirabell

Yes it is a great play. never owned it and saw it cheap at a bookstore here in cologne and had to get it.

Remembered better about the Marat-Sade play. The film was British, with Glenda Jackson (later a Labour party member of parliament). The film with the menacing working class was the Berlin Ensemble, but it was the Threpenny Opera, not the Marat-Sade. Both have music by Kurt Weil- whihc confused me; and the folk singer who ruined the Marat-Sade songs was Judy Collins - much too icky, got to have genine menace.

[Mirabell]

In the mail

Regeneration through Violence, Richard Slotkin (thx Tud)
The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis
Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner

[Heteronym]

Just got:

Smog and The Argentine Ant, Italo Calvino
Under the Jaguar Sun, Italo Calvino
Trold, vol. 1, Jonas Lie
The Manuscript Found in Saragoza, vol.1, Jan Potocki
Il Segreto del Bosco Vecchio, Dino Buzzati

[fausto]

Right, so I'm just back from Paris, bloody expensive as ever but some damn fine bookshops. My body aches for the miles I walked today holding bags weighing a ton. I seriously think it's the best haul quality wise I ever had in one day:

Thomas Bernhard - Extinction / Auslöschung
Robert Coover - A night at the movies (signed!!!)
Peter Esterhazy - Harmonia Caelestis
Laszlo Krasznahorkai - Tango de Satan
Julián Ríos - Belles Lettres / Amores que atan
Julián Ríos - Monstruaire / Monstruario
Coll. - Face à Pynchon
Arno Schmidt - La république des savants / Die Gelehrtenrepublik
Arno Schmidt - Scènes de la vie d'un faune / Aus dem Leben eines Fauns
Arno Schmidt - Miroirs noirs / Schwarze spiegel
Arno Schmidt - On a marché sur la lande / Kaff auch Mare Crisium

Add to this:
Thomas Pynchon - Contre-jour / Against the day, not out yet but given to me by the translator
and
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - Rome, regards / Rom, Blicke, found in my mailbox when I arrived here, sent by the publisher. It looks fantastic and if it's half as good as the Jirgl the very same publisher put out last year, I'll be a happy camper...

[Stewart]

Was out at lunch to Waterstone's and didn't expect to see that Philip Roth's Exit Ghost was out in paperback. I don't actually need it, since I've only read his Goodbye, Columbus, but I've got nearly everything else he's writting sitting on the shelf. Think I'm just two or three books off the set.

But, with it being part of a 3 for 2 promotion, I had to indulge, and so decided to have another crack at Murakami Haruki (After Dark) and, because I've heard good things about him (and it): Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald.

[cuchulain]

Have really slowed down on buying books. I think I need to read what I have on my shelves, first.

Last purchased Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, and Stefan Zweig's The Post-Office Girl, which I'm reading now. Thanks to this forum.

[Mirabell]

whoa


Barockkonzert, Alejo Carpentier (trans. A. Botond)

Trotzdestonichts, Volker Braun

Die Hochzeit von Kadmos und Harmonia, Roberto Calasso (trans. M. Kahn)

Figaro läßt sich scheiden, Ödön v. Horváth

Gebürtig, Robert Schindel (always wanted to own a copy)

Schlaf in der Sonne, Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. J.A. Frank)



happyhappyhappy

[cuchulain]

Originally Posted by Mirabell

whoa


Barockkonzert, Alejo Carpentier (trans. A. Botond)

Trotzdestonichts, Volker Braun

Die Hochzeit von Kadmos und Harmonia, Roberto Calasso (trans. M. Kahn)

Figaro läßt sich scheiden, Ödön v. Horváth

Gebürtig, Robert Schindel (always wanted to own a copy)

Schlaf in der Sonne, Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. J.A. Frank)



happyhappyhappy

Looks like a nice haul.

Thanks to Seymour-Smith, I sought out Von Horvath years ago. Read his The Age of the Fish. Excellent. I remember finding it very strange, haunting and intriguing. But that's all I've ever read by him. Please let us know about the book you bought.

[Mirabell]

Ödön von Horváth

[Eric]

Looks interesting, Ödön von Horváth. I'll look out for him next time I'm in a bookshop or library.

My only recentish purchase was South of the River by Blake Morrison, which I am eager to read, in order to get a whiff of everyday life in the London of the 1990s-2000s.

[Mirabell]

Giving an account of oneself, Judith Butler



one book but whoa.

[Mirabell]

and in today's mail

Pierre or: The Ambiguities, Herman Melville


I hope it's not again about whales and shit.

[fausto]

Lille's braderie today so moules frites and Menettou Salon, but more to the point I found a second-hand copy of Des arbres à abattre / Holzfällen eine erregung by Thomas Bernhard. Happy. I bought a second book but found out when I came home I had it already and even read it last year. Shit happens...

[Mirabell]

in the mail

The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead

The Mirror in the Well, Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Herzzeit: Briefwechsel, Ingeborg Bachmann/Paul Celan

The Wolves in the Walls, Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, William H. Gass


wonderful haul

[nnyhav]

At the localusedbookmonger today:

André Breton, Najda (trans Richard Howard)
Camilo José Cela, The Hive (J.M.Cohen)
Ryu Murakami, In the Miso Soup (Ralph McCarthy)
Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (Toby Talbot)
Elie Wiesel, Night (Marion Weisel) new translation, preface '06

[Mirabell]

Fox in Socks, Dr. Seuss
Horton Hears a Who, Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book, Dr. Seuss
Marvin K. Mooney Will you Please Go Now!, Dr. Seuss

Stop it! Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say
such silly stuff, sir.

[Stewart]

The Story Of The Eye, George Bataille
Lady Macbeth Of Mtsensk, Nikolai Leskov

[spooooool]

I remember the Leskov as wonderful, Back up the thread a bit, i didn't think that the Butler was up to much, as if Judith herself is playing catch up with the thinking being done. A bit grumpy of me given that she is most often brilliant, but anyway. I've ordered/or about to

Carpenter's Gothic, William Gaddis

The Loser, Thomas Bernhard

Mediaeval Jewish Philosophical Writings

Hume's Dialogues concerning natural religion

also very soon some Francis Yates, essays on Elias Canetti, more physics/geophysics and more of the Loeb Plotinus..thanks to Iris for sending me back to Plotinus

[Mirabell]

in today's batch

Good Morning Comrades, Ondjaki (trans. S. Henighan)

Konfidenz, Ariel Dorfman

White-Jacket, Herman Melville

The Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powers



need to stop buying books.