What about Literature?

I confess that I do not find much interest in literature and art. Between the thousand or so physical volumes in my personal library, and the more than three thousand ebooks, there are very few novels, fictional works, poems or books that have anything to do with these disciplines. however, I make some exceptions; there are also works that I find brilliant, fascinating, interesting or entertaining. Some authors I esteem unconditionally, a very small and select number. I generally prefer short stories short to novels with a substantial number of pages, prose vs. poetry, newer authors vs to the classics.To give examples:

  • jorge Borges’ short stories: Fictions (1944), The Aleph (1949), Universal History of Infamy (1935), The Book of Sand (1975)…

  • all short stories and essays by David Foster Wallace: The Girl with the Weird Hair (1990), Short Interviews with Gross Men (1999), This is Water(2009), Everything, and more. Compact history of infinity (2003), Consider the lobster and other essays (2006) A Funny Thing I’ll Never Do Again (1998), Tennis, TV, trigonometry, tornadoes (1999), Westward the empire directs its course (1989),.

  • raymond Carver’s short stories: Cathedral(1983), From Where I’m Calling. Short Stories (1988), If You Need Call. Unpublished Short Stories (2000)…

  • j.D. Salinger’s short stories: An ideal day for the pescibanana, Franny and Zooey, Lift up the lintel, carpenters,…

  • some pages by Anthon Chekhov and Isaak Babel (The Horse Army).

  • The social fresco sketched in the works of Emile Zola, John Steinbeck, Joseph Conrad and so on…

  • The more or less dystopian future in the science fiction of Philiph Dick, Doug Adams, Isaac Asimov

  • Contemporary authors such as Michel Houellebecq, Daniel Pennac, J.D. Salinger, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • The link between literature, food, wine and nutrition in authors such as Isabel Allende, karen Blixen, Banana Yoshimoto, Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Mario Soldati, Juan Bas, and others.Dedicated pages here and here