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Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2021 Edition World Literature: Spain

                  

History

     Buried Mirror, Fuentes

     Farewell Espana, Sachar

     Age of Philip II, Braudel

     1492: The Year the World Began, A Foot in the River, Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, The World: A History, Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years, Columbus, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, Ideas That Changed the World, Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, Barcelona: A Thousand Years Of The City’s Past, Reformations: A Radical Interpretation Of Christianity And The World, 1500 2000 (with Derek Wilson), The Times Illustrated History of Europe, Felipe Fernández-Armesto

     Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of Al-Andalus, Hugh Kennedy

     Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors, James Reston Jr

     Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving

     Goya, Robert Hughes

     Pablo Picasso, Rubin ed.

     Picasso’s War, Russell Martin

     Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

     The Spanish Civil War, Hugh Thomas

     The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, Giles Tremlett

     The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain, Paul Preston

     Desire Unlimited: the cinema of Pedro Almodovar, Smith

                  Literature

     Poem of the Cid, Merwin trans.

     The Quest for El Cid, Fletcher

     Don Quixote, Cervantes

Our Lord Don Quixote, de Unamuno

     Four Comedies by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Mair trans.

     The House Of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding, Yerma,  Poet in New York, Season in Granada, Selected Verse, In Search of Duende, When Five Years Pass,  Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca , Federico Garcia Lorca

The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell, Carlos Rojas

     Dali, Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret

     Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution: Writings 1927-1933, Robert Descharnes (Editor), 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, The Unspeakable Confessions Of Salvador Dali, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 150th Anniversary Edition, Lewis Carroll,  Salvador Dalí (Illustrator), Dante’s Divine Comedy 700th Anniversary Edition Illustrated by Dali, Salvador Dali

     Sebastian’s Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca

     Mazzurka for Two Dead Men, Cela

     Selected Poems, Antonio Machado

     Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, The Garden of Secrets, A Cock-Eyed Comedy, State of Siege, Landscapes After the Battle, Quarantine, Exiled From Almost Everywhere, The Virtues of the Solitary Bird, The Blind Rider, Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife, Juan Goytisolo

Understanding Juan Goytisolo: An Authoritative Guide to One of Spain’s Most Challenging Writers, Randolph D. Pope

     Larva: Midsummer Night’s Babel, Poundemonium, Loves That Bind: A Novel, Monstruary, The House of Ulysses, Julian Rios

     Locos: A Comedy of Gestures, Felipe Alfau

     The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, The Prisoner of Heaven, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

     Sepharad, A Manuscript of Ashes, Antonio Muñoz Molina

     The Fencing Master, The Club Dumas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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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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