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[proximoception]

Procrastination/"one plausible definition of insanity"-defying entry.

So though the core 10 part of my reading plan mostly fell apart maybe I can carry it over to next year but make it a bit more specific, with one particular book by each:

Ivan Ilych and Other Stories, tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky
Swann's Way, tr. Davis (switching to Moncrieff the second she flags)
Oxford Authors Wordsworth
OWC Shelley's Major Works (or Reiman's? Bloom's supplemented with The Cenci?)
Riverside or Signet Selected Emerson
Norton CE Leaves of Grass
Final Harvest
Palm at the End of the Mind
Kafka's Complete Stories and Parables, tr. Muirs et al.

None terribly long, most of them in detachable segments so I can string them out over the year. I'll just line them up by my bed. Maybe replacing the Kafka with his Diaries, which I've been meaning to finish. And I'll be reading some Shakespeare plays for Comps so that should cover him.

Might as well add Invisible Cities and Ficciones since some time has elapsed. They'll help de-anglamerify my reading year.

And Little, Big if the anniversary edition finally comes out.

Comments

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Reiman's texts are really good. I would at least do the Norton Shelley, whose texts are exemplary. You'd have to piece it out a little -- Revolt of Islam, e.g. But the texts are much better than received Shelley. Better as in more accurate, and better as in better.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

OWC's based pretty closely on Reiman, and has a bit more stuff. I've got the Longman volume with Laon in it - and little else, given how much of each page is footnotes.