Attached is a list of the books I read in
1970. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books of
a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country and
century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the complete
list of my reading since 1958, see
http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
Richard Seltzer seltzer@seltzerbooks.com
January
1 Emil Staiger 1 Der Geist der Liebe und das Schicksal 20/1 GER CR1
2 Euripides (repeat) Iphigenia in Taurus BC/1 GRE PL1
3 Goethe 5 Iphigenie auf Taurus 19/1 GER PL2
4 Aeschylus (repeat) Agamemnon BC/2 GRE PL3
5 Roger Aschom 1 The Scholemaster 16/1 ENG ESS1
6 William Faulkner 6 Absalom, Absalom! 20/1 AMER N1
7 Vladimir Nabokov 5 Pale Fire 20/1 RUSS N2
8 Jerzy Kosinski 1 Steps 20/1 POL N3
9 Ken Kesey 1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 20/2 AMER N4
10 Samuel Beckett 2 Murphy 20/1 IR N5
Feb. 1970
11 Thomas Kyd 1 The Spanish Tragedy 16/2 ENG PL4
12 Ludovico Ariosto 1 Orlando Furioso 16/1 ITAL N6
13 Robert Scholes 1 The Fabulators 20/3 AMER CR2
14 Solzhenitsyn 3 Cancer Ward 20/2 RUSS N7
15 Thomas Pynchon 2 V 20/4 AMER N8
March 1970
16 Allain Robbe-Grillet 1 Les Gommes (francais) 20/1 FREN N9
17 Donald Barthelme 1 Snow White 20/5 AMER N10
18 Garcia Marquez 1 One Hundred Years of Solitude 20/1 COL N11
19 Joseph Conrad 1 Heart of Darkness 20/2 POL N12
20 Pirandello 2 Henry IV 20/1 ITAL PL5
21 Robert Musil 2 The Man Without Qualities 20/1 AUST N13
22 Dante 1 Inferno 14/1 ITAL N14
23 Thomas Carlyle 1 Heroes and Hero-Worship 19/1 ENG ESS1
24 Goethe (repeat) Faust, part 1 (auf deutsch) 19/1 GER PL6
April 1970
25 John Osborn 2 Luther 20/1 ENG PL7
26 Marguerite de Navarre 1 L'Heptameron (francais) 16/1 FREN N15
27 Eldridge Cleaver 1 Soul on Ice 20/6 AMER ESS2
28 Gelernt 1 L'Heptameron 20/7 AMER CR3
29 Euripides 6 Orestes BC/3 GRE PL8
30 Goethe (repeat) Faust, part 2 (deutsch) 19/2 GER PL9
31 Jung 1, Kerenyi 1 Essays on a Science of Mythology 20/1 SWIS ESS3
32 Maurice Sceve 1 Delie (francais) 16/2 FREN P1
33 Euripides 7 Helen BC/4 GRE PL10
34 Sophocles 7 Electra BC/5 GRE PL11
35 Euripides 8 The Phoenician Women BC/6 GRE PL12
May 1970
36 Euripides 9 The Trojan Women BC/7 GRE PL13
37 Euripides 10 Andromache BC/8 GRE PL14
38 Norman Mailer 2 Armies of the Night 20/8 AMER N16
39 ed. Hayes 1 Claude Levi-Strauss: Anthropological Hero 20/9 AMER CR4
40 William O. Douglas Points of Rebellion 20/10 AMER ESS4
41 Graham Greene 1 The Quiet American 20/2 ENG 5 N17
June 1970
42 Lawrence Durrell 1 Justine 20/3 ENG N18
43 J.R.R. Tolkein The Hobbit 20/4 ENG N19
44 Kurt Vonnegut 3 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 20/11 AMER N20
45 Ralph Ellison 1 The Invisibile Man 20/12 AMER N21
U.S. Army, basic training, Fort Polk, Louisiana
August 1970
46 William Faulkner The Wishing Tree 20/13 AMER N22
47 Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn 19/1 AMER N23
48 Forster A Passage to India 20/5 ENG N24
U.S. Army, San Angelo, Texas
September 1970
49 William Faulkner Light in August 20/14 AMER N25
50 Fyodor Dostoyevsky A Raw Youth 19/1 RUSS N26
51 Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Double 19/2 RUSS N27
52 Erskine Caldwell 2 Tobacco Road 20/15 AMER N28
53 Robert L. Jackson 1 Dostoevsky's Quest for Form 20/16 AMER CR5
October 1970
54 Herbert Marcuse 2 An Essay on Liberation 20/17 AMER PH1
55 Thomas Wolfe 2 The Story of a Novel 20/18 AMER CR6
56 John Berryman 1 Berryman's Sonnets 20/19 AMER P2
57 Pirandello3 To Clothe the Naked 20/2 ITAL PL15
58 Robert Graves 1 Poems 1938-1945 20/6 ENG P3
November 1970
59 Ugo Betti 1 The Queen and the Rebels 20/3 ITAL PL16
60 Anthony Burgess 1 The Wanting Seed 20/7 ENG N29
61 Katherine Anne Porter Pale Horse, Pale Rider 20/20 AMER ST1
62 Robert P. Warren 2 Incarnations: Poems 1966-68 20/21 AMER P4
63 Georg Lukacs 1 Realism in Our Time 20/1 HUNG CR7
64 James Dickey 1 Deliverance 20/22 AMER N30
65 Gunter Grass 3 Local Anaesthetic 20/2 GER N31
66 Baul Bellow 2 Henderson the Rain King 20/23 AMER N32
December 1970
67 Joseph Heller 1 Catch-22 20/24 AMER N33
68 Cervantes 2 Don Quixote, part 2 17/1 SPAN N34
69 Herman Hesse Unterm Rad (auf deutsch) 20/3 GER N35
70 Daniel Boorstin Sociology of the Absurd 20/25 AMER HIS1
71 Theodore Dreiser 1 An American Tragedy 20/26 AMER N36
out of Army
72 Eric Segal 1 Love Story 20/27 AMER N37
73 R.D. Laing The Politics of Experience 20/28 AMER PSY1
74 John Lyons 1 Chomsky 20/9 ENG CR8
75 Sigmund Freud Civilization and its Discontents 20/2 AUST PSY2
76 J. The Sensuous Woman 20/29 AMER PSY3
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