To a young friend charged with possession of the classics
Influence
A temple of texts : fifty literary pillars
The blessed company : The book of prefaces
Erasmus : The praise of folly
Anonymous : A thousand and one nights
François Rabelais : Gargantua and Pantagruel
Robert Burton : The anatomy of melancholy
Gertrude Stein : Three lives
Flann O'Brien : At Swim-Two-Birds
Ernesto Sabato : On heroes and tombs
A defense of the book
William Caddis and his goddamn books
Elias Canetti : The tongue set free
John Hawkes : Humors of blood & skin
Robert Coover : The public burning
Gabriel García Márquez : Chronicle of a death foretold
Stanley Elkin : open on the Sabbath
The sentence seeks its form
Rainer Maria Rilke : Auguste Rodin
Rainer Maria Rilke : Rilke and the requiem
Sacred texts
Spectacles
Evil.