Books

• Sontag, The Volcano Lover ("the appropriate labor pains")
• Sapienza, The Art of Joy
• Goethe's Faust
• Marlowe's Faust
• Mann's Faust
• DH Lawrence, Women in Love
• Cortázar, Hopscotch
• Svevo, Senilità
• Rat Man of Paris
• The White Hotel
• Blood and Guts in High School

Authors

• André Gide
• Bolaño
• Duras
• Borges
• Anaïs Nin
• Kundera
• Kristeva
• Samman
• Kafka
• Calvino
• Zadie Smith
• Stendahl
• Madame d'Epinay
• Madame de Staël
• Sylvia
• Sarah Manguso
• Jean Genet
• etc.

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