Here is a quick rundown of new books, reissues, and assorted other things that I especially enjoyed this year which also happened to be published this year. They aren’t in any particular order, though fiction is more toward the top and nonfiction toward the bottom. Imre Kertesz’ Fiasco stands out as perhaps the most significant to me of the lot.
I’m using Amazon integration not because of any strong desire to do so, but because I could not find another tool that allowed me to list a collection easily and had access to the covers and data for most of the books on the list. I’m not making any affiliate money whatsoever from this. The links are there for convenience only.
Even still, there are missing books. One is Wendy Walker’s mysterious, uncanny My Man and Other Critical Fictions.
Imre Kertesz (Melville House) War Diary (SB-The German List) Ingeborg Bachmann (Seagull Books) Adam Mars-Jones (Faber & Faber) László Krasznahorkai (New Directions) Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Vagabonde Editions) Jose Donoso (Northwestern University Press) The Armed Garden and Other Stories David B. (Fantagraphics Books) David B (Self Made Hero) Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Barbara Comyns (Dorothy, a publishing project) Ice Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics) Vladimir Sorokin (NYRB Classics) Ludvik Vaculik (Open Letter) Louis Zukofsky (New Directions) Lisa Samuels (Shearsman Books) Daniel T. Rodgers (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956 Samuel Beckett (Cambridge University Press) Three Days Before the Shooting . . . (Modern Library Paperbacks) Ralph Ellison (Modern Library) Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion Jeanne Fahnestock (Oxford University Press, USA) Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750-1790 Jonathan Israel (Oxford University Press, USA) John Sladek (Gateway) The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized Owen Flanagan (A Bradford Book) A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (Oxford-Warburg Studies) Peter Mack (Oxford University Press, USA) Edmund Husserl’s Freiburg Years: 1916-1938 (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics) J. N. Mohanty (Yale University Press) After Godel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic Richard Tieszen (Oxford University Press, USA) Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition Tommaso Campanella (University Of Chicago Press) Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost Edward Pechter (Palgrave Macmillan) Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism Paul Forster (Cambridge University Press) On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot’s Aesthetic Thought Denis Diderot (Springer) Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy The Cowherds (Oxford University Press, USA) Correr el tupido velo (Spanish Edition) Pilar Donoso (Alfaguara)
Kertesz looks interesting. Did you read the earlier books of of the conceptual trilogy, or just dive in with Fiasco?