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.
Correr el tupido velo Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella: A Bilingual Edition After Godel: Platonism and Rationalism in Mathematics and Logic Edmund Husserl's Freiburg Years: 1916-1938 (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics) A History of Renaissance Rhetoric, 1380-1620 (Oxford-Warburg Studies) The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized Democratic Enlightenment Philosophy Revolution and Human Rights 1750-1790 Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion Three Days Before the Shooting . . . The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941-1956 Age of Fracture Gender City Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry The Guinea Pigs Ice Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics) Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Black Paths The Armed Garden And Other Stories The Lizard's Tale: A Novel Thésée universel AnimalInside (The Cahiers) Cedilla War Diary (The German List) Fiasco
Pilar Donoso Alfaguara
The Cowherds Oxford University Press
Denis Diderot Springer
Paul Forster Cambridge University Press
E. Pechter Palgrave Macmillan
Tommaso Campanella University of Chicago Press
Richard Tieszen Oxford University Press
J. N. Mohanty Yale University Press
Peter Mack Oxford University Press
Owen Flanagan A Bradford Book
Jonathan I. Israel Oxford University Press
Jeanne Fahnestock Oxford University Press
Ralph Ellison Modern Library
Samuel Beckett Cambridge University Press
Daniel T. Rodgers Belknap Press
Lisa Samuels Shearsman Books
Louis Zukofsky New Directions
Ludvík Vaculík Open Letter
Vladimir Sorokin NYRB Classics
Barbara Comyns Dorothy, a publishing project
David B. SelfMadeHero
David B. Fantagraphics Books
José Donoso Northwestern University Press
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Vagabonde Editions
László Krasznahorkai New Directions
Adam Mars-Jones Faber & Faber
Ingeborg Bachmann Seagull Books
Imre Kertész Melville House
28 December 2011 at 11:55
Kertesz looks interesting. Did you read the earlier books of of the conceptual trilogy, or just dive in with Fiasco?