from The Terrorizers (Edward Yang / Taiwan / 1986)
I've been reading a lot lately. I am currently reading three books: Selected Stories by Jose Dalisay Jr., Beautiful Accidents by Ian Rosales Casocot, and Almanak ng Isang Aktibista by Roland Tolentino. I am also reading slowly and carefully two difficult texts: Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries by Ronald Bogue and Philippine Gay Culture: Binabae to Bakla, Silahis to MSM (the U.P. Centennial edition) by J. Neil Garcia. Both of them are theory-based so it is best if one reads and re-reads each of their sections thoroughly. Nothing is worse than misinterpreting concepts, arguments, and notions. But they say that difficult works have innate multiplicities --- meaning, what you've understand now maybe different entirely from what you will understand from it in your future re-readings --- so fuck it.
Anyway, I just want to list the books I've been dying to have. If you know where I can find these books in Metro Manila, or if someone has a copy, please let me know:
Anyway, I just want to list the books I've been dying to have. If you know where I can find these books in Metro Manila, or if someone has a copy, please let me know:
Philosophy and Critical Theory Books
- Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma I: L'image-mouvement (1983). Trans. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1986).
- --------. Cinéma II: L'image-temps (1985). Trans. Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989).
- Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? (1991). Trans. What Is Philosophy? (1994).
- Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir (Paris: Gallimard, 1975). Trans. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. (1975)
- --------. L'archéologie du savoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1969). Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith. Archaeology of Knowledge. (London: Routledge, 2002)
- --------. Les mots et les choses - une archéologie des sciences humaines (Paris: Gallimard, 1966). Trans. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966)
- Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. (Schocken; first Schocken paperback edition edition (January 13, 1969))
- Brenez, Nicole. Abel Ferrera (Contemporary Film Directors) (2006). Trans. Adrian Martin.
- Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory. (1984) Trans. Christian Lenhardt. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984.
- Barthes, Roland. S/Z: An Essay (1975).
- Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (original - 1904 to 1905, translation - 1930)
- Debord, Guy. La société du spectacle (1967) In English: The Society of the Spectacle, Zone Books (1995).
- Sartre, Jean-Paul. L'étre et le néant (1943). In English: Being and Nothingness. [I saw two copies at Fullybooked]
- ----------. Critique de la raison dialectique (1960). In English: Critique of Dialectical Reason. (1985)
- ----------. L'existentialisme est un humanisme (1946). In English: Existentialism and Humanism.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morality. (1887)
- Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. (1927)
- Marcuse, Herman. One-Dimensional Man. (1964)
- Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. (1910)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. (1953)
- [more to come...]
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Novels, Short Stories, and Poems
- Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart. (1946)
- Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch. (1959)
- Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. (1939)
- Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. (1973)
- Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. (1965) Trans. William Weaver. (1968)
- ----------. If on a winter's night a traveler. (1979) Trans. William Weaver. (1981)
- Wright, Ernest Vincent. Gadsby: Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E". (1939)
- Queneau, Raymond. Exercise in Style. (1947) Trans. Barbara Wright. (1958)
- Mathews, Harry. The New Tourism. (2010)
- Borges, Jorge Luis. Ficciones. (1941-42)
- -----------. The Aleph. (1949)
- Kawabata, Yasunari. Snow Country. (1948)
- --------. The Dancing Girl of Izu. (1926)
- --------. The House of the Sleeping Beauties. (1961)
- Mishima, Yukio. The Sound of the Waves. (1954)
- -------. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. (1959)
- Sōseki, Natsume. I Am a Cat. (1905)
- Casocot, Ian. Sugar Land. (2008)
- Beckett, Samuel. The Unnamable. (1958)
- Lovecraft, H.P. At the Mountains of Madness. (1936)
- ------. The Shadow Out of Time. (1936)
- Lertwiwatwongsa, Wiwat. A Damaged Utopia. (2012)
- ----------. Alphaville Hotel. (2010)
- Serafini, Luigi. Codex Seraphinianus. 1981 [wishful thinking]
- Hedayat, Sadegh. The Blind Owl. (1937. trans. 2010)
- Casares, Adolfo Bioy. The Invention of Morel. (1940)
- [more to come...]
A note on the list above:
I've been nursing this list for years now. It started six years ago when I was first year college. I took two philosophy subjects side-by-side and took another one the following semester. So most of the books from the philosophy section are personal recommendations from my teachers and classmates. My Philosophy major dormmate, Marvin Tamayao, also suggested some of the books here. I got some of the other recommendations from fellow cinephiles, artists, and literary friends. If you have anything to add to this list, let me know.
Ciao!
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