[for Sarah Ruddy]
In lieu of a list of resolutions for the New Year, a bibliography of books acquired at the recent MLA in Boston and on a side trip to Gloucester may point toward some of its promises.
Modernism
Isherwood, Christopher. Goodbye to Berlin. New York: New Directions, 2012. New ed. in single volume.
Walser, Robert. The Assistant. Trans. Susan Bernofsky. New York: New Directions, 2007.
———. Microscripts. Trans. Susan Bernofsky. New York: New Directions/Christine Burgin, 2012.
Post-1945
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot/En attendant Godot: A Bilingual Edition. 1952/1953. New York: Grove Press, n.d.
Perec, Georges. La Boutique obscure: 124 Dreams. Trans. Daniel Levin Becker. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2012. Advance copy.
Modernity
Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotton Holocaust of World War II. 1997; New York: Basic Books, 2012.
