Unlike most people, I read novels "for a living," so my summer reading has a lot of the critical/philosophical/psychoanalytic books that I don't get to read during the school year. The point of posting this is if anyone else is reading these things, get in touch and we can read them together. Particularly the Beckett novels and "The Wolf Man."
PICKWICK PAPERS (Dickens)
VANITY FAIR (Thackeray)
DANIEL DERONDA (Eliot)
WOMAN IN WHITE (Collins)
SODOM AND GOMORRAH (Proust)
BLUE AND BROWN BOOKS (Wittgenstein)
INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS (Freud)
FUNDAMENTALS OF LANGUAGE (Jakobson)
DECEIT DESIRE AND THE NOVEL (Girard)
FOUR FUNDAMENTALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (Lacan)
CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (Kant)
DIALOGIC IMAGINATION (Bakhtin)
MARXISM AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (Bakhtin)
MOLLOY, MALONE DIES, THE UNNAMEABLE (Beckett)
THE WOLF MAN (Freud)
THE WOLF MAN'S MAGIC WORD (Torok, Abraham, Derrida)
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You probably already know this but at one point or another Beckett suddenly became Adorno's BIG THING -- he wrote endlessly about Beckett.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmAAUXasXE
"-says always of Beckett that it's a technique of reduction of that which is to be expressed. And I've said the same, and--I think--it is not any longer a coup [to say this] at all. But this reduction is that which the world makes out of us, to speak with Karl Kraus. That, the world has made of us. These stumps of people, these people who have LOST their 'I' - these are, then really the products of the world in which we live."
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