A list for the Spring and Summer 2012 or really any season for that matter
--From the Library of America:
---THE CIVIL WAR The First Year
---THE CIVIL WAR The Second Year
---KURT VONNEGUT Novels and Stories 1950-1962
---KURT VONNEGUT Novels and Stories 1963-1973
---DAVID GOODIS Five Noir Novels of the 1940s &50s
And then...
-- STOLEN AIR Selected poems of Osip Mandelstam translated by Christian Wiman. (Ecco Press)
--A TIME FOR EVERYTHING by Karl O. Knausgaard. Archipelago
--MY STRUGGLE by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Archipelago
--SATANTANGO by Laszlo Krasznahorkai New Directions
--PARALLEL LIVES by Peter Nadas. Farra Straus & Giroux
--SEX AND TERROR by Pascal Quignard. Seagull Press
--THE ROVING SHADOWS by Pascal Quignard. Seagull Press
--AS CONSCIOUSESS IS HARNESSED TO FLESH Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980
by Susan Sontag. Farrar Straus & Giroux
--THE HUNGER ARTIST by Herta Muller. Metropolitan Books
--TRANSPARENCY by Marek Bienzyk. Dalkey Archive
--ON THE MARBLE CLIFFS by Ernst Junger. New Directions (out of print)
--SONG BOOK. The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba. Yale University Press
--ON THE BORDER OF SNOW AND MELT. Selected Poems of Georgy Ivanov. Perceval Press
--JAMES JOYCE. A New Biography by Gordon Bowker. Farrar Straus & Giroux
NOTICE
The American writers on the this list are all dead.
Is that saying something?
More, maybe than I would like to say, really: but does anyone look forward to any American writer’s newest book with the eager anticipation that the announcement of a new translation of a book by THOMAS BERNHARD or ROBERT PINGET or ERNST JUNGER or MICHEL LEIRIS would create?
(there is William T. Vollmann and then...)
