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READING 1972

Attached is a list of the books I read in 1994. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html

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January

1 Alain-Fournier 1 Le Grand Meaulnes (francais) 20/1 FREN N1

2 Pierre Benoit 1 L'Atlantide 20/2 FREN N2

3 George Eliot 2 Middlemarch 19/1 ENG N3

4 Julio Cortazar 1 Hopscotch 20/1 ARGEN N4

5 Laurence Durrell 2 Balthazar 20/1 ENG N5

U. of Mass., grad school in Comparative Literature

Feb. 1972

6 Alfred de Vigny 1 Cinq-Mars (francais) 19/1 FREN N6

7 Victor Hugo 2 Notre-Dame de Paris (francais) 19/2 FREN N7

8 Honore de Balzac 4 Les Chouans (francais) 19/3 FREN N8

9 Laurence Durrell 3 Mountolive 20/2 ENG N9

26th birthday

10 Andrey Bely Petersburg 20/1 RUSS N10

11 Israel Horovitz 1 First Season 20/1 AMER PL1

12 William Faulkner The Bear 20/2 AMER N11

March 1972

13 Honore de Balzac 5 La Recherche to l'Absolu (fran.) 19/4 FREN N12

14 Maslenikov 1 The Frenzied Poets 20/2 RUSS CR1

15 Theophile Gautier 1 Mademoiselle de Maupin (fran.) 19/5 FREN N13

16 Czeslaw Jesman 1 The Russians in Ethiopia HIS1

17 Elizabeth Sewall 1 The Orphic Voice 20/3 AMER CR2

18 Theophile Gautier 2 Le Roman de la Momie (fran.) 19/6 FREN N14

19 Jerzy Kosinski 3 Being There 20/1 POL N15

20 Georges Sand 1 Mauprat (francais) 19/7 FREN N16

21 Anthony Burgess 2 A Clockwork Orange 20/3 ENG N17

22 Laurence Durrell 4 Clea 20/4 ENG N18

April 1972

23 Nathaniel West 2 The Day of the Locust 20/4 AMER N19

24 Prosper Merimee Colomba (francais) 19/8 FREN N20

25 Prosper Merimee Carmen (francais) 19/9 FREN N21

26 Georg Lukacs Theory of the Novel 20/1 HUNG CR3

27 Paul de Mann 1 Blindness and Insight 20/5 AMER CR4

28 Henri d'Orleans 1 Une Visite a l'Empereur Menelek 19/10 FREN BIO1

May 1972

29 Stendahl 2 La Chartreuse de Parme (fran.) 19/11 FREN N22

30 John Meyerdorff 1 The Orthodox Church 20/3 FREN REL1

31 Boris Nikolayevsky 1 Aseff the Spy 20/3 RUSS BIO2

32 Fulop-Miller 1 Rasputin: the Holy Devil 20/1 GER BIO3

33 Alan Moorehead 2 The Blue Nile 20/6 AMER HIS2

34 Anthony Hecht 1 The Hard Hours 20/7 AMER P1

summer vacation

June 1972

35 Rilke 1 Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 20/2 GER N23

July 1972

36 moine de l'orient La Priere de Jesus (francais) 20/4 FREN REL2

37 Lenin 1 What is to be Done? 20/4 RUSS ES1

38 Gogol Revizor (russkii) 19/1 RUSS PL1

August 1972

39 Lermontov 1 Geroy nashevo vremini (russkii) 19/2 RUSS N24

40 Vladimir Nabokov Ada 20/5 RUSS N25

41 M.V. Rayt Russkie Ekspeditsii v Efiopii 20/6 RUSS HIS3

September 1972

42 Samuel Beckett Proust 20/1 IR CR5

U. of Mass.

43 Norman O. Brown Life Against Death 20/8 AMER PSY1

44 Leo Tolstoy Childhood 19/3 RUSS N26

45 Leo Tolstoy Boyhood 19/4 RUSS N27

46 Ivan Turgenev Rudin (russkii) 19/5 RUSS N28

47 Sigmund Freud (repeat) Civ. & its Discontents 20/1 AUST PSY2

48 Leo Tolstoy Two Hussars 19/6 RUSS N29

49 Leo Tolstoy (repeat) Happy Married Life 19/7 RUSS N30

October 1972

50 Leo Tolstoy (repeat) Death of Ivan Ilyich 19/8 RUSS N31

51 Ivan Turgenev On the Eve 19/9 RUSS N32

52 Leo Tolstoy (repeat) Kreutzer Sonata 19/10 RUSS N33

53 Racine (repeat) Phaedra 17/1 FREN PL1

54 Corneille (3rd time) Le Cid 17/2 FREN PL2

55 Leo Tolstoy Youth 19/11 RUSS N34

56 Ivan Turgenev (repeat) Fathers & Sons 19/12 RUSS N35

57 Andrey Bely 2 Kotik Letaev 20/7 RUSS N36

58 Madame de Lafayette 1 Princesse de Cleves 17/3 FREN N37

November 1972

59 Gorky 2 Mother 20/8 RUSS N38

60 Laclos 1 Les Liaison Dangereuses 18/1 FREN N39

61 de Sade 1 Philosophy in the Bedroom 18/2 FREN ESS1

62 Leo Tolstoy (repeat) War & Peace 19/13 RUSS N40

63 Resif de la Bretonne 1 Pleasures and Follies 18/3 FREN N41

64 Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory 20/9 RUSS BIO4

65 Gorky 3 Ispoved (russki) 19/14 RUSS N42

66 Goethe (3rd time) Sufferings of Young Werther 18/1 GER N43

67 R.F. Chistian Critical Introduction to Tolstoy 20/5 ENG CR6

68 Gustave Flaubert (repeat) Madame Bovary 19/12 FREN N44

69 Vladimir Nabokov Real Life of Sebastian Knight 20/10 RUSS N45

70 Marcel Proust 3 Autour de Madame Dwann (fran.) 20/5 FREN N46

December 1972

71 Leo Tolstoy My Confession 19/14 RUSS BIO5

72 Marcel Proust 4 Noms de Pays (francais) 20/6 FREN N47

73 Marcel Proust 5 Cote de Guermantes I (francais) 20/7 FREN N48

74 Marcel Proust 6 Cote de Guermantes II (francais) 20/8 FREN N49

75 Leo Tolstoy (repeat) Anna Karenina 19/15 RUSS N50

76 Leo Tolstoy What is Art? 19/16 RUSS ESS2

77 Marcel Proust 7 Sodome et Gomorrhe I (francais) 20/9 FREN N51

78 Marcel Proust 8 Sodome et Gomorrhe II (francais) 20/10 FREN N52

79 Marcel Proust 9 La Prisonniere (francais) 20/11 FREN N53

80 Marcel Proust 10 Albertine Disparue (francais) 20/12 FREN N54

81 Marcel Proust 11 Le Temps Retrouve (francais) 20/13 FREN N55

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