reconstructing the year's reading (so far)

ok - the year begins with the french, the goncourt brother's journal and renee mauperin (this goes with germine lacerteux by them that horsemouth read last year), words - jean paul sartre (horsemouth had a sartre / de beauvoir reading binge a few years ago - only really adieu where sartre dies affected him particularly).

journals are of course big with him, wartime notebooks - marguerite duras, anais nin - journals vol.2, two stories and a memory - guiseppe di lampedusa, a death in the family - karl ove knausgaard, homicide: a year on the killing streets - david simon, miami - joan didion, the air-conditioned nightmare - henry miller.

then there are his theoretical dabblings, shoenberg's 'moses and aaron' - worner, fear and trembling - kierkegaard, althusser: a critical reader - gregory elliot (just the introduction), chronicles of consensual times - jacques ranciere, the melancholy science - gillian rose (love's work by her remains amazing), modenist radicalism - stephen crook, often read in a hurry in university libraries.

then there is his ongoing interest in utopian commune and political movements (a hangover from his work on ranciere perhaps - and in particular his on the shores of politics), the democracy project - david graeber,the literature of labour - h. gustav klaus, documentary and educational films of the 1930ies - rachael low, selected writings of the transcendentalists, alternative communities in 19th century england - dennis hardy.

then there's the russians (horsemouth will have to do some catching up here - he's got a short story collection and herzen's ends and beginnings to be getting on with), the elaghin affair and other stories - ivan bunin, moscow circles - benedict erofeev. the erofeev in particular was amazing.

... and then a few 'modern' novels written in english for when horsemouth was bored, hangover square - patrick hamilton, goldberg: variations - gabriel josipovici, julius winsome - gerard donovan (largely borrowed from andy).

as usual when he reconstructed the list he found he'd missed out a few books, ones he'd read electronicaly also tended not to make the list. he needs a further list as well - one of accessions (books bought or received).