Books to come forth
Next year, a crumper bop of new books, in translation at least (these seem to be more interesting than English-language publications): Giorgio Agamben’s State of Exception and The Time that Remains. Both look fascinating and difficult. Next, three books by authors examined by WG Sebald in his Air War essays (see my recent review): Hans Erich Nossack’s The End, and two by Alfred Andersch. Also with the apparently excellent Toby Press, there’s A Table for One by Aharon Appelfeld. I would have preferred it to be a new novel, but this might be of interest.
One book not in translation is British philosopher Simon Critchley’s Things Merely Are subtitled Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.
Finally, the book I am most looking forward to: Sebald’s own Campo Santo, a collection of essays. I hope, with an irrational intensity, that this collection has what the previous one painfully lacked: Wo die Dunkelheit den Strick zuzieht: Zu Thomas Bernhard and Jenseits der Grenze - Peter Handkes Erz�hlung Die Wiederholung.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- A Scottish enlightenment
- Things, merely
- Critchley on poetry
- He’s not often right, and he’s wrong again
- Post, as in posthumous
