[Metropolis: The Tower of Babel (1927)]
“[J. G. ] Ballard's influence was seminal and it was profound.
We were soon publishing his first ‘concentrated novels’ …"
- Michael Moorcock, ed. New Worlds: An Anthology
(London: Flamingo, 1983): 18.
31 Texts:
- François Villon, “Ballade à s’amie”
- Heinrich von Kleist, from Die Marquise von O
- Jorge Luis Borges, “El puñal”
- Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
- Karl Kraus, from Aphorismen
- Garcilaso de la Vega, “Soneto XXXVII”
- Guillaume Apollinaire, from L'Hérésiarque & Cie
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Gefunden”
- Benito Pérez Galdós, from Fortunata y Jacinta
- Pierre de Marivaux, from Le Legs
- Arthur Schopenhauer, from Aphorismen
- José Lezama Lima, “Retrato de Don Francisco de Quevedo”
- François-René de Chateaubriand, from Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
- Rainer Maria Rilke, from Duino Elegies 1
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, from El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
- Arthur Rimbaud, “Ô saisons ô châteaux”
- Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, from Undine
- D. F. Sarmiento, from Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie en Las Pampas Argentinas
- Voltaire, from Abrégé de l'Histoire Universelle depuis Charlemagne jusques à Charlequint
- Heinrich Heine, “Orpheisch”
- Augusto Roa Bastos, from "La Excavacion”
- Gérard de Nerval, “El Desdichado”
- Franz Kafka, from "Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse"
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, from Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz
- Georges Perec, from La Disparition
- Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, from “Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich”
- Leopoldo Lugones, “Historia de mi muerte”
- Vincent Voiture, “Pour vos beaux yeux et vostre beau visage”
- Theodor Fontane, from Vor dem Sturm
- Octavio Paz, from “La verdad contra el Compromiso”
- Jackson Wills, “Jackson's Assignment”
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens"
[Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain]
– Friedrich von Schiller
3 comments:
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Thank you for checking out my work. I want more than anything to be a published writer, to let tales spring wild and free from my inner universe... reminding my fellow humans to dream ever clearer and more wild! Peace!
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