Postmoderne Literatur: Nicht im Bett mit Madonna aber im Archiv mit David Foster Wallace

In einer Welt der Bilder, die nichts anderes sind als  Oberflächen, hinter denen sich nichts mehr verbirgt, in einer Welt also, in der der Inhalt immer weniger zählt, verkörpern Bücher eine stille Größe. Sie erscheinen wie Schatzkästchen, in denen sich anstatt Goldtalern Buchstaben befinden, die Worte bilden, die wiederum die Grundlage von Sätzen sind, die zu uns sprechen und uns tatsächlich etwas sagen wollen.

So geschah es, dass David Foster Wallace erst wirklich zu seinen deutschen Lesern sprach, nachdem er schon nicht mehr lebte. Er sprach im Buch „Infinite Jest“ über den Irrsinn es modernen Lebens. Zum Zeitpunkt seiner Veröffentlichung in Deutschland war das Buch bereits 10 Jahre in Amerika zu haben.

Wortmacht David Foster Wallace

„Unendlicher Spass“ war geradezu staatstragend, anders kann man die Einhelligkeit in der Beurteilung des Buches unter der Kritikerzunft nicht nennen. 1.547 Seiten Sprache, die etwas aussagten. 1.547 Seiten Liebe zum Wort. Denn das wollen einige Leser noch: Leidenschaft im Schreiben, Hingebung an das Wort, die Sprache. David Foster Wallace hat diese Sehnsucht befriedigt. Um das erreichen zu können, waren seine besten Freunde exotische Nischen-Wörtenbücher aus der Medizin oder aber Arzneimittelkataloge – kurz all jene Worte, die einen guten Klang hatten aber völlig unverständlich sind.

„The Pale King“ und „Unendlicher Spaß“

Endoplast hatte rund um das Erscheinen von „Unendlicher Spaß“ berichtet: Unter anderem auch darüber, dass das Erscheinen des Buches auf Deutsch natürlich so lange dauern mußte, weil der Übersetzer mit all diesen ausgestorbenen oder in ihrer Existenz bedrohten oder neuen Worten seine liebe Müh‘ hatte. Nachdem die gewaltige Medienwelle um das Erscheinen des Buches abgeklungen war, gab es nur noch zu berichten, dass „The Pale King“, das letzte Romanfragment des Autors, der sich selbst getötet hatte, noch publiziert wird und dass ansonsten alles, was den Autor begleitete, in Literaturarchive wanderte – auf dass es dem Wissenschaftsbetrien und der Nachwelt erhalten bliebe.

Newsweek im Wallace-Archiv

Die Newsweek hat jetzt noch ein bißchen Öl ins Feuer gegossen als sie von einem Besuch in so einem Archiv berichtete, in dem nun ein Teil des Nachlasses des Autors bewahrt wird. So sind denn auch 300 Bände seiner Büchersammlung dem „Harry Ransom Center“ der „University of Texas“ übergeben worden. Dies hat deshalb mehr als die übliche Bedeutung, als man vermuten darf, dass sich darin besondere Schätze der Wortkultur befinden müssen, da David Foster Wallace dafür bekannt war, dass er eben solche Bücher aufgespürt, für seine schriftstellerische Tätigkeit ausgewertet und gehortet hat. Er hat sie darüber hinaus beim Lesen mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Notizen versehen, hat sie kritisiert, ergänzt, umformuliert. Das wird der Literaturwissenschaft noch viele Möglichkeiten geben, das Denken des Autors weiter auszuloten.

Im Bücher-Kosmos

Wer über die Weihnachtsfeiertage nichts zu tun hat, kann ja mal hineinblicken in den David-Foster-Wallaceschen Bücherkosmos. Nachfolgend sind die Bände seiner Privatbibliothek, die nun im Archiv in Texas, Austin, stehen, aufgeführt. Viel unendlichen Spaß damit.

Weltliteratur, Stephen King und Thomas Harris

Es befindet sich darunter sehrr Unterschiedliches: Wie zu erwarten fast alle Werke von Don DeLillo aber auch von Thomas Harris (Hannibal, Schweigen der Lämmer), einiges von John Updike und J. M. Coetzee, viele europäische Klassiker mit Goethe, Frisch, Brecht als Lyriker und Kafka, ein repräsentativer Querschnitt durch die amerikanischen Romancies aber auch viele Sachbücher der Geisteswissenschaft, Mathematik und Psychologie. Es ist sogar ein Buch von Stephen King dabei: „Carrie“. Und „Practically painless English“ von Sally Foster Wallace, seiner Mutter.

Die 300 Bände der David Foster Wallace Bibliothek

What we should have known: two discussions
New York, N.Y.: n+1 Research (2007)

Hannibal rising: a novel von Thomas Harris
New York: Delacorte Press (2006)

Saving daylight von Jim Harrison
Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press (2006)

Rhetoric: a user’s guide von John D. Ramage
New York: Pearson Longman (2006)

Blink: the power of thinking without thinking von Malcolm Gladwell
New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown & Company (2005)

Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything von Steven D. Levitt
New York, N.Y.: William Morrow  (2005)

A reader’s companion to Infinite jest von William C. Dowling
[United States]: Xlibris (2005)

The diviners: a novel von Rick Moody
New York: Little, Brown & Co. (2005)

Borges, a life von Edwin Williamson
[New York]: Viking (2004)

The idiot von Fyodor Dostoyevsky
New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, Modern Library (2003)

Chasing the sea: being a narrative of a journey through Uzbekistan, including descriptions of life von Tom Bissell
New York: Pantheon Books  (2003)

Deep survival: who lives, who dies, and why: true stories of miraculous endurance and sudden death von Laurence Gonzales
New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company  (2003)

What narcissism means to me von Tony Hoagland
Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press (2003)

Pattern recognition von William Gibson
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (2003)

Everything belongs: the gift of contemplative prayer von Richard Rohr
New York: Crossroad Pub (2003)

Entertaining America: Jews, movies, and broadcasting
New York: Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; Princeton: Princeton University Press (2003)

Strangers to ourselves: discovering the adaptive unconscious von Timothy D. Wilson
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2002)

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse von Louise Erdrich
New York: Perennial (2002)

Barbed wire: a political history, Histoire politique du barbelé von Olivier Razac
New York: New Press (2002)

Quirky qwerty: the story of the keyboard @ your fingertips von Torbjörn Lundmark
UNSW, Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press (2002)

The tipping point: how little things can make a big difference von Malcolm Gladwell
New York, N.Y.: Back Bay Books: Little, Brown and Company (2002)

The body artist: a novel von Don DeLillo
New York: Scribner (2001)

The man who loved children von Christina Stead
New York: Picador USA (2001)

Paradoxes von Richard Mark Sainsbury
Cambridge, England; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press (2001)

Animal portraits von Walter Schels
Zurich [Switzerland]; New York, N.Y.: Edition Stemmle (2001)

Pity the bathtub its forced embrace of the human form: poems von Matthea Harvey
Farmington, Me.: Alice James Books (2001)

The colossal book of mathematics: classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems: number theory, algebra von Martin Gardner
New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company (2001)

Quo vadis? von Henryk Sienkiewicz
New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books (2000)

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s conjecture, Theios Petros kai hē eikasia tou Gkolntmpach von Apostolos K. Doxiadēs
New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury (2000)

NoBrow: the culture of marketing; the marketing of culture von John Seabrook
New York, N.Y.: A.A. Knopf (2000)

Disgrace von J. M. Coetzee
New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books (2000)

Stiffed: the betrayal of the American man von Susan Faludi
New York, N.Y.: Perennial (2000)

Giovanni’s room von James Baldwin
New York, N.Y.: Delta Trade Paperbacks (2000)

Uses of infinity von Leo Zippin
Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications (2000)

The mystery of the aleph: mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the search for infinity von Amir D. Aczel
New York, N.Y.: Four Walls Eight Windows (2000)

Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea von Charles Seife
New York, N.Y.: Viking (2000)

The wild numbers, Wilde getallen von Philibert Schogt
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows (2000)

The universal computer: the road from Leibniz to Turing von Martin Davis
New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000)

The best of the Prose poem: an international journal von N.Y. Buffalo
White Pine Press; Providence, R.I.: Providence College (2000)

The name of the world von Denis Johnson
New York: Harper Collins Publishers (2000)

An introduction to fiction
New York: Longman (1999)

Rhetorical grammar: grammatical choices, rhetorical effects von Martha Kolln
Boston: Allyn and Bacon (1999)

The golden notebook: a novel von Doris May Lessing
New York: Perennial Classics (1999)

Desperate characters von Paula Fox
New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company (1999)

Pu-239 and other Russian fantasies von Ken Kalfus
Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions (1999)

Hannibal von Thomas Harris
New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press (1999)

The hunters von James Salter
New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books (1999)

The U.S. income tax: what it is, how it got that way, and where we go from here von Michael J. Graetz
New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton &  Company (1999)

How to write poetry von Nancy Bogen
New York, N.Y.: Macmillan (1998)

A dictionary of modern American usage von Bryan A. Garner
New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press (1998)

Inside out von Lawrence J. Crabb
Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress (1998)

The user illusion: cutting consciousness down to size/Maerk verden von Tor Nørretranders
New York, N.Y.: Viking (1998)

The Anchor essay annual: the best of 1998
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday (1998)

A beautiful mind von Sylvia Nasar
New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster (1998)

Understanding the infinite von Shaughan Lavine
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1998)

The moviegoer von Walker Percy
New York, N.Y.: Vintage International (1998)

Gain von Richard Powers
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux (1998)

The user illusion : cutting consciousness down to size
Maerk verden von Tor Nørretranders
New York, N.Y.: Viking (1998)

The black brook von Tom Drury
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. (1998)

Toward the end of time von John Updike
New York: Knopf (1997)

Three trapped tigers/Tres tristes tigres von Guillermo Cabrera Infante
New York: Marlowe & Co (1997?)

About Schmidt von Louis Begley
New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine (1997)

Bear and his daughter, stories von Robert Stone
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. (1997)

The Puttermesser papers von Cynthia Ozick
New York: A.A. Knopf (1997)

Pafko at the wall: a novella/Underworld. Pafko at the wall von Don DeLillo
New York: Scribner (1997)

Commodify your dissent: salvos from The Baffler
New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company (1997)

The anatomy of disgust von William Ian Miller
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1997)

Unbridled power: inside the secret culture of the IRS von Shelley L. Davis
New York, N.Y.: HarperBusiness (1997)

Something happened von Joseph Heller
New York, N.Y.: Scribner Paperback Fiction (1997)

Mathematical fallacies and paradoxes von Bryan H. Bunch
Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications (1997)

After math von Miriam Webster
Wayne, PA: Zinka Press (1997)

Bliss von Peter Carey
New York: Vintage Books (1996)

Generation of vipers von Philip Wylie
Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press (1996)

Nonverbal communication: the unspoken dialogue von Judee K. Burgoon
New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (1996)

West’s federal taxation: individual income taxes von Minn St. Paul
West Publishing Company (1996)

Against the gods: the remarkable story of risk von Peter L. Bernstein
New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1996)

Galatea 2.2 von Richard Powers
New York, N.Y.: HarperPerennial (1996)

On killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society von Dave Grossman
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company (1996)

Moo von Jane Smiley
New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine (1996)

The following story/Volgende verhaal von Cees Nooteboom
San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace & Company (1996)

A practical guide to Buddhist meditation: Change your mind von Paramananda
New York, N.Y.: Barnes and Noble Books (1996)

Dostoevsky. The miraculous years, 1865-1871 von Joseph Frank
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (1995)

Of love and other demons/Del amor y otros demonios von Gabriel García Márquez
New York: Penguin (1995)

Sacred violence, a reader’s companion to Cormac McCarthy, selected essays
El Paso: Texas Western Press, University of Texas, El Paso (1995)

The great Gatsby von F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York, N.Y.: Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon&Schuster (1995)

Trinity fields von Bradford Morrow
New York: Viking (1995)

Anarcho-Hindu: the damned, weird book of fate von Curtis White
Normal, IL: FC2 (1995)

A tour of the calculus von David Berlinski
New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books (1995)

The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea/Gogo no eikō von Yukio Mishima
New York: Vintage International (1994)

The lion, the witch and the wardrobe von Clive Staples Lewis
New York, N.Y.: Harper Trophy (1994)

Infini et inconscient: essai sur Georg Cantor von Nathalie Charraud
Paris, Anthropos: Diffusion, Economica (1994)

The spirituality of imperfection: storytelling and the journey to wholeness von Ernest Kurtz
New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books (1994)

Money and the meaning of life von Jacob Needleman
New York, N.Y.: Doubleday/Currency (1994)

Operation wandering soul: a novel von Richard Powers
New York: HarperPerennial (1994)

Trinities von Nick Tosches
New York: Doubleday (1994)

The middle passage: from misery to meaning in midlife von James Hollis
Toronto, Canada: Inner City Books (1993)

On writer’s block von Victoria Nelson
Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company (1993)

Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer’s life von Bonnie Friedman
New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial (1994)

The joke: definitive version/Žert von Milan Kundera
New York, NY: Harper Perennial (1993)

Notes on Blood meridian von John Sepich
Louisville, Ky.: Bellarmine College Press (1993)

All the pretty horses von Cormac McCarthy
New York: Vintage Books (1993)

Bodies electric: a novel von Colin Harrison
New York: Crown Publishers (1993)

Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft von Janet Burroway
New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers (1992)

Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West von Cormac McCarthy
New York: Vintage Books (1992)

Awareness: a de Mello spirituality conference in his own words von Anthony De Mello
New York, N.Y.: Image Books/Doubleday (1992)

Hostage to the devil: the possession and exorcism of five living Americans von Malachi Martin
San Francisco, Calif.: HarperSanFrancisco (1992)

Crossing&cruising: from the golden era of ocean liners to the luxury cruise ships of today von John Maxtone-Graham
New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1992)

Muscle: confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder von Samuel Wilson Fussell
New York: Avon Books (1992)

The insanity of normality, realism as sickness, toward understanding human destructiveness/Wahnsinn der Normalität von Arno Gruen
New York, N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld (1992)

Et tu, babe von Mark Leyner
New York: Harmony Books (1992)

Strong motion von Jonathan Franzen
New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux (1992)

Introducing Don DeLillo
Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press (1991)

The world’s religions: our great wisdom traditions von Huston Smith
[San Francisco]: Harper San Francisco (1991)

Flow: the psychology of optimal experience von Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
New York : HarperPerennial (1991)

The Sixties: art, politics, and media of our most explosive decade
New York, N.Y. : Paragon House (1991)

The culture of narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations von Christopher Lasch
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company (1991)

Teaching what we do: essays
Amherst, Mass. : Amherst College Press (1991)

Room temperature: a novel von Nicholson Baker
New York, N.Y. : Vintage Contemporaries (1991)

War fever von J. G. Ballard
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux (1991)

Live from earth von Lance Olsen
New York Ballantine Books (1991)

The ultimate rip-off : a taxing tale von D. Larry Crumbley
Sun Lakes, Ariz.: Thomas Horton and Daughters (1991)

Literature: an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama
New York, NY : Harper Collins (1991)

Dead Elvis: a chronicle of a cultural obsession von Greil Marcus
New York: Doubleday (1991)

Laura’s skin/Geographie der Lust von Jürg Federspiel
New York: Fromm International Pub. Corp. (1991.)

Mao II von Don DeLillo
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking (1991)

Practically painless English von Sally Foster Wallace
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall + instructor’s manual (1990)

Instructor’s manual to accompany Literature, an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama
New York, N.Y. : Harper Collins (1990)

Dostoevsky. The years of ordeal, 1850-1859 von Joseph Frank
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (1990)

What if?: writing exercises for fiction writers von Anne Bernays
New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers (1991)

Morte d’author: an autopsy von H. L. Hix
Philadelphia, Penn. : Temple University Press (1990)

Coming to our senses: body and spirit in the hidden history of the West von Morris Berman
London, England: Unwin Paperbacks (1990)

An adult child’s guide to what is „normal“ von John C. Friel
Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, Inc. (1990)

The safety of objects: stories von A. M. Homes
New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company (1990)

My cousin, my gastroenterologist von Mark Leyner
New York: Harmony Books (1990)

The best American short stories, 1990
Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1990)

Bill W. and Dr. Bob von Samuel Shem
New York, N.Y.: Samuel French (1990)

The drama of the gifted child/Drama des begabten Kindes von Miller Alice
New York, N.Y.: BasicBooks (1990)

Life after television von George F. Gilder
Knoxville, Tenn.: Whittle Direct Books (1990)

The silence of the lambs von Thomas Harris
New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Paperback (1990)

Play it as it lays: a novel von Joan Didion
New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1990)

Georg Cantor: his mathematics and philosophy of the infinite von Joseph Warren Dauben
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (1990)

Mathematical thought from ancient to modern times von Morris Kline
New York: Oxford University Press (1990)

American short stories
Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education (1990)

Running dog von Don DeLillo
New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1989)

Ratner’s star von Don DeLillo
New York : Vintage Contemporaries (1989)

Players von Don DeLillo
New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1989)

Americana von Don DeLillo
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books (1989)

The Sermon on the mount: the key to success in life, and, The Lord’s prayer, an interpretation von Emmet Fox
San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row (1989)

The now habit: a strategic program for overcoming procrastination and enjoying guilt-free play von Neil A. Fiore
Los Angeles, Calif.: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (1989)

Recovering from a broken heart: a companion guide for the journey from suffering to joyful awareness von Philip Golabuk
New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row (1989)

Journey into madness : the true story of secret CIA mind control and medical abuse
von Gordon Thomas
New York: Bantam Books (1989)

Warlock von Jim Harrison
New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence (1989)

Entry in an unknown hand: poems von Franz Wright
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Carnegie Mellon University Press (1989)

Wolf : a false memoir von Jim Harrison
New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence (1989)

Revolutionary road von Richard Yates
New York: Vintage Books (1989)

The big nowhere von JamesEllroy
London, England: Mysterious Press (1989)

Taking the quantum leap: the new physics for nonscientists von Fred Alan Wolf
New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row (1989)

Witness to the fire: creativity and the veil of addiction von Linda Schierse Leonard
Boston: Shambhala (1989)

What we talk about when we talk about love: stories von Raymond Carver
New York, N.Y.: Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books (1989)

Woody Allen von Giannalberto Bendazzi
Milano: Fabbri Editori (1989)

Dostoevsky. The stir of liberation von Joseph Frank
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (1988)

The Norton reader: an anthology of expository prose
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company (1988)

All fires the fire: and other stories/Todos los fuegos el fuego von Julio Cortázar
New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books (1988)

Rock springs, stories von Richard Ford
New York: Vintage Contemporaries (1988)

Heart of darkness, an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, criticism von Joseph Conrad
New York: W. W. Norton (1988)

Collected works von Flannery O’Connor
New York, N.Y.: Literary Classics of the United States: Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Viking Press (1988)

A Place of sense, essays in search of the Midwest
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press for the Iowa Humanities Board (1988)

Libra von Don DeLillo
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Viking (1988)

Bradshaw on, the family: a revolutionary way of self-discovery von John Bradshaw
Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications (1988)

The last good kiss: a novel von James Crumley
New York: Vintage Books (1988)

Speedboat von Renata Adler
New York, N.Y.: Perennial Library (1988)

In quest of the ordinary: lines of skepticism and romanticism von Stanley Cavell
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

The psychology of everyday things von Donald A. Norman
New York: Basic Books (1988)

Carrie von Stephen King
New York, N.Y.: Signet (1988)

The bonfire of the vanities von Tom Wolfe
Toronto, Canada; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books (1988)

In the loop: Don DeLillo and the systems novel von Tom LeClair
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (1987)

Dog soldiers: a novel von Robert Stone
New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books (1987)

Impostors: a novel von George V. Higgins,
New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books (1987)

Success von Martin Amis
New York: Harmony Books (1987)

More dirt, the new American fiction
Cambridge, England: Granta (1986)

Classics of modern fiction, twelve short novels
San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986)

Habitations of the word, essays von William H. Gass
New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, Inc. (1986)

White noise von Don DeLillo
New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books (1986)

Beyond success and failure: ways to self-reliance and maturity von Willard Beecher
Dallas, Tex.: Willard & Marguerite Beecher Foundation (1986)

The natural mind: an investigation of drugs and the higher consciousness
von Andrew Weil
Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company (1986)

In our time: stories von Ernest Hemingway
New York: Collier Books/Macmillan Pub. Co. (1986)

The lover/Amant von Marguerite Duras
New York: Perennial Library/Harper & Row (1986)

The cinema book
New York: Pantheon Books (1986)

Recombinant do re mi: frontiers of the rock era von Billy Bergman
New York: Quill (1985)

The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess von Peter Brooks
New York: Columbia University Press (1985)

Crash von J. G. Ballard
London : Triad/Panther (1985)

Christie Malry’s own double-entry von Bryan Stanley Johnson
New York, N.Y.: New Directions (1985)

Satan says von Sharon Olds
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (1985)

Something to be desired von Thomas McGuane
New York: Vintage Books (1985)

In the heart of the heart of the country and other stories von William H. Gass
Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine (1985)

Instructor’s manual for the Random House handbook, fourth edition von Frederick C. Crews
New York, N.Y.: Random House (1984)

High windows von Philip Larkin
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1984)

Myths to live by von Joseph Campbell
Toronto, Canada: New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books (1984)

Levels of the game von John McPhee
New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1984)

Insect biology, a textbook of entomology von Howard Ensign Evans
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. (1984)

Angels von Denis Johnson
New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books (1984)

Desperate characters von Paula Fox
Boston, Mass.: Nonpareil Books (1984)

The American short story, 1900-1945, a critical history von
Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers (1984)

Infinity and the mind, the science and philosophy of the infinite von Rudy von Bitter Rucker
Toronto, Canada; New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books (1983)

Seeing is believing: how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the Fifties von Peter Biskind
New York: Pantheon Books (1983)

Diary of a madman, and other stories/Zapiski sumasshedshego von Nikolaĭ Vasilevich Gogol
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books (1983)

Thinking in writing
New York, N.Y. : A.A. Knopf  (1983)

The histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel/Gargantua et Pantagruel von François Rabelais
Harmondsworth, Middlesex; New York: Penguin Books (1983)

Blindness and insight: essays in the rhetoric of contemporary criticism von Paul De Man
Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press (1983)

When bad things happen to good people von Harold S. Kushner
New York, N.Y.: Avon (1983)

Great Jones Street von Don DeLillo
New York: Vintage Books (1983)

The gift: imagination and the erotic life of property von Lewis Hyde
New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books (1983)

The Whitsun weddings: poems von Philip Larkin
[London]: Faber and Faber (1983)

The red badge of courage : an episode of the American Civil War von Stephen Crane
New York: Avon (1983)

Ironweed: a novel von William Kennedy
New York, N.Y.: Viking Press (1983)

Complete stories, Short stories von Franz Kafka
New York, N.Y.: Schocken Books (1983)

The rise of the computer state von David Burnham
New York: Random House (1983)

Fiction 100: an anthology of short stories
New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Company (1982)

Story first: the writer as insider von Kit Reed
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall (1982)

Waiting for the barbarians von J. M. Coetzee
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York: Penguin Books (1982)

Winesburg, Ohio von Sherwood Anderson
Harmondsworth, England; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books (1982)

In the heart of the country von J. M. Coetzee
Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books (1982)

A flag for sunrise von Robert Stone
New York: Ballantine Books (1982)

Pursuits of happiness: the Hollywood comedy of remarriage von Stanley Cavell
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (1981)

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn von Mark Twain
Toronto; New York: Bantam Books (1981)

Virtues and vices and other essays in moral philosophy von Philippa Foot
Berkeley: University of California Press (1981)

Ethics: inventing right and wrong von John Leslie Mackie
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books (1981)

Shame and guilt: characteristics of the dependency cycle: an historical perspective for professiona von Ernest Kurtz
Center City, Minn.: Hazelden (1981)

Foundations of the metaphysics of morals; and, what is enlightenment? von Immanuel Kant
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1981)

Where are the children? von Mary Higgins Clark
New York: Dell Pub. (1981)

Marijuana: facts, figures, and information for the 1980′s von Brent Q. Hafen
[Center City, MN]: Hazelden (1981)

The complete stories von Flannery O’Connor
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1981)

The long loneliness: the autobiography of Dorothy Day von Dorothy Day
San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row (1981)

Darconville’s cat von Alexander Theroux
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co. (1981)

Poetry and the age von Randall Jarrell
New York: Ecco Press (1980)

Practically painless English von Sally Foster Wallace
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc. (1980)

Stories of faith von John Shea
Chicago, Ill.: The Thomas More Press (1980)

Amazons: an intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League von Don DeLillo
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1980)

Erotic communications: studies in sex, sin, and censorship von George N. Gordon
New York: Hastings House (1980)

Dostoevsky. The seeds of revolt von Joseph Frank
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press (1979)

The problems of philosophy von Bertrand Russell
London; New York: Oxford University Press (1979)

On moral fiction von John Gardner
New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, Inc. (1978)

The road less traveled: a new psychology of love, traditional values, and spiritual growth von Morgan Scott Peck
New York: Simon and Schuster (1978)

What is art? von Leo Tolstoy
Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing (1978)

The world according to Garp: a novel von John Irving,
New York: E. P. Dutton (1978)

Ywain, the knight of the lion/Chevalier au lyon von Chrétien de Troyes
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. (1977)

Scarlet and black: a chronicle of the nineteenth century/Rouge et le noir von Stendhal
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books (1977)

Springer’s progress von David Markson
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1977)

Compassion and self-hate: an alternative to despair von Theodore Isaac Rubin
New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books (1977)

Molloy: a novel von Samuel Beckett
New York, N.Y.: Grove Press (1977)

The American Heritage dictionary of the English language
Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company (1976)

Marry me: a romance von John Updike
New York, N.Y.: A.A. Knopf (1976)

Black Sunday von Thomas Harris
New York: Bantam Books (1975)

Writing with style: conversations on the art of writing von John R. Trimble
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (1975)

Introduction to computer data processing von Margaret Schlosser Wu
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1975)

The Tao of physics: an exploration of the parallels between modern physics and eastern mysticism von Fritjof Capra
Boulder, Colo.: Shambhala (1975)

End zone von Don DeLillo
New York: Pocket Books (1973)

Metalogic: an introduction to the metatheory of standard first order logic von Geoffrey Hunter
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press (1973)

Keys to mathematics von John Edward Maxfield
Philadelphia, Penn.: W.B. Saunders Company (1973)

Briefing for a descent into Hell von Doris May Lessing
New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books (1972)

The bluest eye von Toni Morrison
New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press (1972)

Goethe’s Faust/Faust von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Toronto, Canada; Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press (1972)

Alienation von Richard Schacht
London, England: George Allen & Unwin Limited (1971)

Anti-story: an anthology of experimental fiction von Philip Stevick
New York, N.Y. Free Press (1971)

Critical theory since Plato
New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (1971)

The divided self: an existential study in sanity and madness von Ronald David Laing
Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books (1971)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
New York, N.Y.: New American Library (1970)

The immoralist/Immoraliste von André Gide
New York: Vintage Books (1970)

Going down von David Markson
New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston (1970)

The reluctant taxpayer von William L. Raby
New York, N.Y.: Cowles Book Company, Inc. (1970)

Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice von John Barth
New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books (1969)

Philosophical investigations: the English text of the third edition/Philosophische Untersuchungen von Ludwig Wittgenstein
New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Co. (1968)

Seize the day von Saul Bellow
Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications (1968)

Of the farm von John Updike
Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett (1967)

Omensetter’s luck: a novel von William H. Gass
New York, N.Y.: New American Library (1967)

The philosophy of rhetoric von Ivor Armstrong Richards
New York: Oxford University Press (1966)

Against interpretation and other essays von Susan Sontag
New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1966)

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of pure reason7Kritik der reinen Vernunft von Immanuel Kant
New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press (1965)

The mill on the floss von George Eliot
New York, N.Y.: New American Library (1965)

Phenomenology and the crisis of philosophy von Edmund Husserl
New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row (1965)

The poorhouse fair von John Updike
New York, N.Y.: Fawcett publications (1964)

Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings Selections von Jorge Luis Borges
New York: New Directions Pub. Corp. (1964)

End of the road von John Barth
New York, N.Y.: Avon Books (1964)

The fire next time von James Baldwin
New York: Dell, 1964 (1963)

The principles of mathematics von Bertrand Russell
New York: W.W. Norton & Co. (1964)

Marxism: the unity of theory and practice von Alfred G. Meyer
Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press (1963)

Three case histories von Sigmund Freud
New York, N.Y.: Collier Books (1963)

Essays on the theory of numbers von Richard Dedekind
New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc. (1963)

Selected poems/Poems. Selections von Bertolt Brecht
New York: Grove Press; London: Evergreen Books (1959)

Stephen hero, Portrait of the artist as a young man von James Joyce
New York: Published for James Laughlin by New Directions Pub. Corp. (1963)

The triple thinkers : twelve essays on literary subjects von Edmund Wilson
Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books (1962)

Elements of acoustic phonetics von Peter Ladefoged
Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press (1962)

Nightwood von Djuna Barnes
New York: New Directions (1961)

I’m not Stiller/Stiller von Max Frisch
New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books (1958)

The symbolist movement in literature von Arthur Symons
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co. (1958)

The idiot/Idiot von Fyodor Dostoyevsky
London, Eng.; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books (1955)

The man in the gray flannel suit von Sloan Wilson
New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster (1955)

The secret agent: a simple tale von Joseph Conrad
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc. (1953)

The constitution of the United States of America, analysis and interpretation, annotations of cases
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office (1953)

The hero with a thousand faces von Joseph Campbell
New York, N.Y.: MJF Books (1949)

The naked and the dead von Norman Mailer
New York: New American Library (1948)

Amerika von Franz Kafka
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc. (1946)