My Literary Canon
MLC and TIS (The Inner Sanctum) in Literature and Books.
What is gradually coming into focus here is a picture of what means the most to me in Literature (fine prose and lyricism) and books (informational and other kinds of writings without a heavy aesthetic quality)
A Temple of Texts -- this William H Gass collection of essays exemplifies what I mean when I lay the stress on aesthetics in literature. I have more by him, but for now this is what is here for now.
Tao te ching -- lots of translations
The Complete Zhuangzi -- Taoism for those who like to read.
The Gateless Gate -- Koans here and the next one. This is such an interesting volume with 2 commentaries. There's to be more like this added soon.
The Blue Cliff Record
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma -- with Red Pine, as the next one too.
Three Zen Sutras - The Heart, The Diamond, and The Platform Sutras
The Trilogy of Rest -- Longchenpa: 1) Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind 2) Finding Rest in Meditation 3) Finding Rest in Illusion
Aristotle
Epictetus
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
The Complete Essays of Montaigne -- a very good bedside book.
Being and Time -- Martin Heidegger's famous philosophical work
The History of Sexuality -- Michel Foucault's famous thing, it's a pleasure to read it, and I need to feel that way as I spent over 60 dollars on it!
Psychopathia Sexualis -- Richard Krafft-Ebbing -- this is hilarious but also a timeless time capsule of how scientific research was like.
Havelock Elis -- 12 volumes of this, title is generic, that's why i've never committed it to memory, will edit in the right description soon.
Freud's Three Theories rounds out my little extra mileage approach to Foucault. Speaking of Foucault, there's another book that will appear with that name in the title!!
The Iliad -- The Fagles translation will be my way to experience this Uber classic.
The Hour of the Star -- I love Clarice Lispector, and all her books are in my inner sanctum.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling -- an instant MLC member once I started reading it.
Rainer Maria Rilke --- this was for the present the greatest inclusion into MLC, there's still a few to get, both by and about, there must be a lot of his Letters that hasn't been published into English, and I need to get his early diary, perhaps even before the NRSV. What can I say about this guy, he wrote like a dream!! The Elegies in 2 translations I just finished the Stephen Mitchell one, he also did Tao te ching!! And I have the audiobook of that read by Mr. Mitchell himself!! But I digress, Rilke to me is the purest of the artistic literati, I love to sprinkle his Poems and Letters, along with the Persian stuff below, some Kahil Gibran, Lispector's Cronicas, for a garden of my own construing, giving off dizzyingly pleasurable aromas.
For Rilke I am far from being done collecting books by and about him, I even refunded a 51 dollar Gaddis book to get more!!
The Poetry of Rilke -- my focus with RMRilke's poetry.
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God -- the way this is laid out is not ideal, I will need to get Snow's translation, towards the end of this month.
The Book of Images (1902-1906)
New Poems (1907)
Duino Elegies / The Sonnets to Orpheus -- more translations will be added towards the end of May.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- his novel, showing his fears of homelessness in Paris, one of the city novels, Hunger by Knut Hamsun being another, there's 3 Hamsuns that will appear soon.
Uncollected Poems
Letters to a Young Poet
Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters
You Alone Are Real to Me: Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke
The Dark Interval
Auguste Rodin
Rilke, A Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus -- great biography!!
The Orphic Hymns -- this is early AD writings I gather, but very interesting and might help me draw some more enjoyment from Rilke.
Persian Poetry is like Life, love and bliss, you get a strong sense of how good it is to be alive.
The Garden of Rumi's Poetry
The Essential Rumi
The Garden of Hafiz's Poetry
Hafiz's Little Book of Life
The Garden of Persian Poetry
William Gaddis
The Recognitions -- his first novel is taking some time to get through, savoring it yes that's the word, it can get funny, but can also dip into tragedy, it's so neat how it's like a verbal version of seeing a drama take place, how realistic the dialogue is.
William H. Gass
Omensetter's Luck
The Tunnel
William T. Vollmann -- Fathers and Crows
Jorge Luis Borges -- Collected Fictions
Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft
Kurt Vonnegut -- Cat's Cradle
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman -- a very funny oldie.
Bible -- from various parts at a time
The Zohar -- 12 volumes
This list will be updated regularly, and pinned.
What is gradually coming into focus here is a picture of what means the most to me in Literature (fine prose and lyricism) and books (informational and other kinds of writings without a heavy aesthetic quality)
A Temple of Texts -- this William H Gass collection of essays exemplifies what I mean when I lay the stress on aesthetics in literature. I have more by him, but for now this is what is here for now.
Tao te ching -- lots of translations
The Complete Zhuangzi -- Taoism for those who like to read.
The Gateless Gate -- Koans here and the next one. This is such an interesting volume with 2 commentaries. There's to be more like this added soon.
The Blue Cliff Record
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma -- with Red Pine, as the next one too.
Three Zen Sutras - The Heart, The Diamond, and The Platform Sutras
The Trilogy of Rest -- Longchenpa: 1) Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind 2) Finding Rest in Meditation 3) Finding Rest in Illusion
Aristotle
Epictetus
Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
The Complete Essays of Montaigne -- a very good bedside book.
Being and Time -- Martin Heidegger's famous philosophical work
The History of Sexuality -- Michel Foucault's famous thing, it's a pleasure to read it, and I need to feel that way as I spent over 60 dollars on it!
Psychopathia Sexualis -- Richard Krafft-Ebbing -- this is hilarious but also a timeless time capsule of how scientific research was like.
Havelock Elis -- 12 volumes of this, title is generic, that's why i've never committed it to memory, will edit in the right description soon.
Freud's Three Theories rounds out my little extra mileage approach to Foucault. Speaking of Foucault, there's another book that will appear with that name in the title!!
The Iliad -- The Fagles translation will be my way to experience this Uber classic.
The Hour of the Star -- I love Clarice Lispector, and all her books are in my inner sanctum.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling -- an instant MLC member once I started reading it.
Rainer Maria Rilke --- this was for the present the greatest inclusion into MLC, there's still a few to get, both by and about, there must be a lot of his Letters that hasn't been published into English, and I need to get his early diary, perhaps even before the NRSV. What can I say about this guy, he wrote like a dream!! The Elegies in 2 translations I just finished the Stephen Mitchell one, he also did Tao te ching!! And I have the audiobook of that read by Mr. Mitchell himself!! But I digress, Rilke to me is the purest of the artistic literati, I love to sprinkle his Poems and Letters, along with the Persian stuff below, some Kahil Gibran, Lispector's Cronicas, for a garden of my own construing, giving off dizzyingly pleasurable aromas.
For Rilke I am far from being done collecting books by and about him, I even refunded a 51 dollar Gaddis book to get more!!
The Poetry of Rilke -- my focus with RMRilke's poetry.
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God -- the way this is laid out is not ideal, I will need to get Snow's translation, towards the end of this month.
The Book of Images (1902-1906)
New Poems (1907)
Duino Elegies / The Sonnets to Orpheus -- more translations will be added towards the end of May.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- his novel, showing his fears of homelessness in Paris, one of the city novels, Hunger by Knut Hamsun being another, there's 3 Hamsuns that will appear soon.
Uncollected Poems
Letters to a Young Poet
Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters
You Alone Are Real to Me: Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke
The Dark Interval
Auguste Rodin
Rilke, A Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus -- great biography!!
The Orphic Hymns -- this is early AD writings I gather, but very interesting and might help me draw some more enjoyment from Rilke.
Persian Poetry is like Life, love and bliss, you get a strong sense of how good it is to be alive.
The Garden of Rumi's Poetry
The Essential Rumi
The Garden of Hafiz's Poetry
Hafiz's Little Book of Life
The Garden of Persian Poetry
William Gaddis
The Recognitions -- his first novel is taking some time to get through, savoring it yes that's the word, it can get funny, but can also dip into tragedy, it's so neat how it's like a verbal version of seeing a drama take place, how realistic the dialogue is.
William H. Gass
Omensetter's Luck
The Tunnel
William T. Vollmann -- Fathers and Crows
Jorge Luis Borges -- Collected Fictions
Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft
Kurt Vonnegut -- Cat's Cradle
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman -- a very funny oldie.
Bible -- from various parts at a time
The Zohar -- 12 volumes
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