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Reviews in the Gaping Void

Updated September 2008


Jonathan Littell

The Kindly Ones: a novel (March 2009)
Dag Solstad Novel 11, Book 18: a novel (January 2009)
Thomas Glavinic
Night Work: a novel (September 2008)

Jeanette Winterson
The Stone Gods: a novel (September 2008)


John Berger

From A to X: a novel (August 2008)

Horacio Castellanos Moya

Senselessness
: a novel  (July 2008)

JM Coetzee

Diary of a Bad Year: a novel (October 2007)
Tao Lin Eeeee Eee Eeee: a novel (May 2007)
Ron Butlin Belonging: a novel (September 2006)
Anne Atik How It Was: a memoir of Samuel Beckett (January 2006)
Geoff Dyer The Ongoing Moment: a book about photography (October 2005)
Christa Wolf In the Flesh: a novel (August 2005)
Aharon Appelfeld A Table for One: a memoir (June 2005)
Paul Auster Oracle Night: a novel (March 2005)
Kevin Hart (editor) Nowhere Without No: In Memory of Maurice Blanchot (May 2004)
Kenzaburo Oe Somersault: a novel (March 2003)
Gabriel Josipovici Goldberg: Variations: a novel (December 2002)
Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin: a novel (October 2002)


Cees Nooteboom

All Souls' Day: a novel (September 2002)


Dante Alighieiri, Michael Palma

Inferno: a new verse translation by Michael Palma (September 2002)
Peter S. Hawkins, Rachel Jacoff (eds) The Poets' Dante: Twentieth Century Responses (September 2002)
Timothy Clark Martin Heidegger: part of the Routledge Critical Thinkers series (March 2002)
Gitta Honegger Thomas Bernhard: the making of an Austrian: the first biography in English (January 2002)
JJ Long The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: form and its function: Bernhard's "narrative strategies" (January 2002)
Gabriel Josipovici On Trust: art and the temptations of suspicion: overcoming but not losing doubt (October 1999)
Gilles Deleuze Proust and Signs: the re-issue of a French philosopher's classic book on, er, Proust. (March 2001)
David Markson This Is Not A Novel: the death of the novel and novelists (June 2001)
WG Sebald Austerlitz: a review written just before the author's untimely death. (November 2001)
Samuel Beckett Beyond Biography: an impressionistic review of two recent biographies. (1996)
Saul Bellow Ravelstein: a novel (June 2000)
Jorge Luis Borges The Total Library: a collection of the Argentine modernist's non-fiction
(February 2000)
Tim Parks Destiny: an English novel in the wake of Thomas Bernhard (July 2000)
Jean-Yves Tadie Marcel Proust: the definitive biography (December 2000)
Leon Wieseltier Kaddish: a conservative Jewish intellectual mourns his father in a work of investigative philosophy! (July 1999)
   

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