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Alvaro Enrigue's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Sudden Death” says literature has its limits: “Life is larger than books. Any bully has more character-building effects on you than the most moving of books.”

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By the Book: Alvaro Enrigue (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-03-24).

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Suetonius · Buy on Amazon
"Still my favorite piece of journalism, published some 1,800 years before the invention of journalism."
First Dream
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz · Buy on Amazon
"I am working through a long poem, First Dream, by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz — a 17th-century nun who wrote in Mexico City to imperial acclaim."
Black Deutschland
Darryl Pinckney · Buy on Amazon
"I finished this past weekend Darryl Pinckney's stunning Black Deutschland."
Cover of Zama
Zama
Antonio di Benedetto · Buy on Amazon
"A genius novel about emptiness and the Americas that should feel experimental and is mysteriously frenetic."
The Art of Flight
Sergio Pitol · Buy on Amazon
"A beautiful book with no genre — has to be read."
Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo · Buy on Amazon
"Pedro Paramo is the perfect modern novel — still looking for a translation into English that does it justice."
The Children's Crusade
Marcel Schwob · Buy on Amazon
"Maybe Marcel Schwob's The Children's Crusade. We should all read Schwob's novel; we should all be ashamed as a generation."

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