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Austria, Germany, & Switzerland

Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2020 Edition

                     World Literature: Austria, Germany, & Switzerland

                     History

      The Holy Roman Empire, Charlemagne and His World, The Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350, Friedrich Heer

     Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe, Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History, Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country, Simon Winder

     The Thirty Years War, C.V. Wedgwood

     The Viennese, Paul Hoffman

     Before the Deluge, Otto Friedrich

     Ring of Power, Jean Shinoda Bolen

     The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, Roger Scruton

     Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion, Stewart Spencer & Barry Millington (Editors), Richard Wagner

     The Dream King: Ludwig II, Blunt

     Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens, Kitty Ferguson

     Mozart in Vienna, Braunbehrens

     Gustav Klimt: From Drawing to Painting, Christian Michael Nebehay

     Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, Rebecca Goldstein

     Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin (Expanded Edition) Mel Gordon

     Marlene Dietrich by Her Daughter, Maria Riva

                    Literature

     Complete Grimm’s Fairytales, Teutonic Mythology (4 Vol. Set), Jacob Grimm

     Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary Life, Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Sabina Flanagan

     Parzival, von Eschenbach

     Basic Theological Writings, Martin Luther, Timothy F. Lull & William R. Russell (Editors), Jaroslav Pelikan (Contributor)

The Reformation: A History, Diarmaid MacCulloch

     The Sorrows of Young Werther, Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethe And His Age, György Lukács

     The Sandman and other night pieces, The Devils Elixir, Nutcracker and Mouse King, E.T.A. Hoffman

     Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit Yirmiyahu Yovel (Translator), Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit A.V. Miller (Translator) John Niemeyer Findlay (Foreword), The Philosophy of History J. Sibree (Translator), C.J. Friedrich (Introduction), Charles Hegel (Preface by), The Encyclopaedia Logic, Lectures on the History of Philosophy 3: Medieval & Modern Philosophy, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

     Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays, History of the Thirty Years War, Wallenstein Trilogy, Schiller’s Literary Prose Works: new translations and critical essays, Friedrich Schiller

     The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels), Capital, Karl Marx

The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto, Slavoj Žižek

A Companion to Marx’s Capital, David Harvey

     The Freud Reader Peter Gay (Editor), Totem and Taboo, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud

Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay

     Man and His Symbols, The Essential Jung (Anthony Storr editor), Modern Man in Search of a Soul, The Undiscovered Self, Answer to Job, Psychological Types, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Alchemical Studies, Psychology and Alchemy, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Aion: researches into the Phenomenology of the Self,  Memories Dreams Reflections, The Red Book, C.G. Jung

 Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts, Daryl Sharp

      Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Geneology of Morality, The Case of Wagner, The AntiChrist, Twilight of the Gods, Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, Rüdiger Safranski

     Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke

     The Trial, The Castle, The Complete Stories, The Zürau Aphorisms, Franz Kafka

Conversations with Kafka, Gustav Janouch

Franz Kafka: a biography, Max Brod

Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

     Berlin Alexanderplatz, Bright Magic: Stories, Alfred Döblin

     Faust, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, The Holy Sinner, Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature, Anthony Heilbut

     Steppenwolf, Demian, The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, Journey to the East, Herman Hesse

     The Lost Gold of Exploded Stars: complete poems, Georg Trakl

     Illuminations, Walter Benjamin

     The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, The Dog Years, Crabwalk, The Rat,  Grimms’ Words: A Declaration of Love, Novemberland: Poems, Peeling the Onion,

Gunter Grass

A Gunter Grass Symposium, Wilson

     Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, Paul Celan

     Group Portrait With Lady, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The Stories of Heinrich Böll Stefan Freund (Editor), Heinrich Boll

     The Essential Brecht, Fuegi

     The Man Without Qualities, Musil

     The Death of Virgil, Broch

     Hamletmachine, Muller

     Kaspar, Handke

     The Prince of Homburg, Heinrich von Kleist

     Marat/Sade, The Aesthetics of Resistance, The Investigation, Holderlin, Shadow of the Coachman’s Body, Trotski in Exile, Discourse On Vietnam,

The New Trial , Weiss

     Chess Story, The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig, Stefan Zweig

     Conjurations: poems of Sarah Kirsch

     Gargoyles, Correction, Woodcutters, Extinction, Thomas Bernhard

     The Piano Teacher, Wonderful Wonderful Times, Elfriede Jelinek

     Night Games and other stories, Arthur Schnitzler

     Perfume, The Pidgeon, Patrick Suskind

     Malina, Darkness Spoken: collected poems of Ingeborg Bachman

     Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz, essays in Campo Santo, Silent Catastrophes: essays on literature 1972-89, Across the Land and the Water: poems 1964-2001, The Emergence of Memory: conversations, Sebald

     Visitation, The End of Days, Jenny Erpenbeck

     The Whole of Life, Jürg Laederach

     Volatile Texts: Us Two, Zsuzsanna Gahse

     The Shadow of Memory, Bernard Comment

      Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, Medea, The Quest for Christa T., Accident: A Day’s News, Christa Wolf

     Empress and the Cake, Linda Stift

     Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann   

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I am a former counselor, teacher, and debate coach who loves to read and write, and a student of literature, psychology, history, philosophy, and languages who loves to travel. Help me celebrate the lives and works of our great authors as a common human heritage. I can also be reached at jayofdollhousepark@gmail.com. Regarding my literary criticism on Dollhouse Park Conservatory and Imaginarium: My initial project was to celebrate the authors whose work I love on their birthdays, by reading something of theirs and writing an appreciation. I've now come full circle and completed the calendar year. These are the authors whose works have been my companions through life, and some new discoveries. Many of their books are ones I also taught in high school English classes; works thoroughly lived with. I also include reading lists by national literature, a Modern American Literature group of lists, and Best Books of the Year lists and reviews. There will occasionally be my own poetry as well; you are warned. I hope that you may also find books which will help you through life and bring depth and joy to your days. As to my aesthetics, I envision the mission of creating civilization as a game played by figures which represent conserving and revolutionary forces, as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot may serve as paragons of their sides of the board and reflect each other as partners in the great game of reimagining humankind, a result of the early influence of Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game and Yasunari Kawabata’s The Master of Go, which I read during seventh grade, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, which I read the following year. Each of us, as with every author, musician, artist, scientist, or public figure, plays the Great Game on one of these dyadic teams. The function of conservatism is to buffer order from the shock of the new and withstand stresses and changing conditions without losing ourselves or undergoing morphogenic change, the loss of identity as structural form, or ruptures to our prochronism, the memory and history of our choices, successful adaptations and strategies of survival as expressed in our systemic form, the loss of our culture and traditions. The function of revolution and innovation is to capitalize on chaos as adaptive potential in dynamically unstable conditions, to adapt and shape ourselves to future needs and to transform, create, and discover new forms, meanings, and values. We need both conserving and revolutionary forces to envision and enact a thing of beauty, be it a person, story, song, film, theory, or any creative artifact of authentic human imagination and experience. A beautiful political structure may be judged by the same criterion as a beautiful poem; so also with humans and the values their actions embody. Thank you so much for your company on this journey. Regarding my daily political journal on Torch of Freedom, a voice of progressive democracy and the antifascist Resistance: I stand for liberty, equality, truth, and justice; a free society of equals. My America is a torch of Liberty and a beacon of hope to the world. I stand for the absolute structural and systemic equality of all human beings, and for the Rights of Man everywhere on earth. I am on the side of Prometheus; rebellion, chaos, anarchy, resistance, transgression, revolution, and the frightening of the horses. Herein I write as an agent of Chaos and Transformation whose goal in life is to become a fulcrum and change the balance of power in the world. For thirty-nine years now I have been engaged in antifascist action, democracy activism, and revolutionary struggle against tyranny and state terror for the liberation of humankind, wherever men hunger to be free. And so I offer to all of you the Oath of the Resistance as it was given to me in Beirut 1982 by the great Jean Genet as he formulated it in Paris 1940, in a burning house, in a lost cause, in a time of force and darkness, in a last stand and an act of defiance beyond hope of victory or survival; “We swear our loyalty to each other, who answer tyranny with Liberty and fascism with Equality. We shall resist and yield not, and abandon not our fellows.” Resist and fear not, O my brothers and sisters, for in resistance we seize our freedom and become Unconquered.

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