David Auerbach on literature, philosophy, film, etc.
David Auerbach
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Books of the Year 2012
My books of 2012, favorites and others of interest. Satantango, The Galley Slave, William Bronk’s Later Poetry, Carl Barks, and many others.
Truth and Muddlement
Of all the concepts that people simultaneously trumpet and denigrate, while not even being aware of the contradiction, truth must rank damn close to the top.
Abandoned People: Shohei Imamura’s Documentaries at Anthology
Six documentaries by Shohei Imamura depict the overlooked and filthy aspects of human existence, the soldiers, prostitutes, and others that form the “heaps of abandoned people.”
The Case Worker, by George Konrád
This 1969 novel from Hungary is about a man who works with “the waste products of a society that maintains order by violence,” and what their suffering comes to mean to him.
The Galley Slave, by Drago Jančar
A grotesque Slovenian novel of plague and witch trials, set in the 17th century. It chronicles a single man’s psychic dissolution in the face of conflicting chaos and superstition.
American Imperfectionism: Siobhan Phillips’ Poetics of the Everyday
Siobhan Phillips’ work of philosophical poetry criticism discusses the structure of time and everyday repetition in four 20th century American poets: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill.
The Authority of Obscurity: Fludd, Hamann, Heidegger, Kripke
The rhetoric of four thinkers who deployed obscurity and confusion to promulgate their beliefs and criticize their opponents. Things have not changed much in 400 years.
Links
- 50 Watts
- Anecdotal Evidence
- Balaustion
- Bibliographing
- Bifurcated Life
- chakira
- Common Reader
- Dilettante Scholar
- Early Modern Whale
- Eudaemonist
- Georgy Riecke
- Obooki
- Paul Raymont
- Pseudopodium
- Slawkenbergius's Tales
- Stochastic Bookmark
- The Idiot and the Dog
- This Public Address
- Three-Toed Sloth
- Times Flow Stemmed
- Waste
- With Hidden Noise
- wood s lot
- Wuthering Expectations
