Images of God and Transcendence

The Impenetrability of God
Scriptures: The Book of Job,
Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus and The Plague
Lao-Tzu:  Tao te Ching

I Am God
Goethe:  Faust I and Prometheus
Bulgakov:  The Master and Margarita
Mary Shelly:  Frankenstein
Whitman: Leaves of Grass

I Choose God in Spite of ...
Flannery O'Connor:  The Complete Stories

The Ache and the Divine
Scriptures:  The Song of Songs
Rag and Bone:
Rumi and Hafiz

 

Family Feuds

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex -- evening at the Guthrie
Freud: Civilization and its Discontents
Nabokov:  Lolita
Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Yusef Komunyakaa: "My Father's Loveletters"

My Significant Others

Lawrence:  Women in Love
Kundera:  The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Fowles:  The French Lieutenant's Woman
Tolstoy:  Anna Karenina
Billy Collins:  "You are the bread and the knife"

Hunger

Hamsun: Hunger
Kafka: "The Hunger Artist"

 

Autres Choses

Stendhal: The Red and the Black
Paul Celan: "Death Fugue"
Robertson Davies: What's Bred in the Bone
Iris Murdoch:  The Sea, the Sea
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day