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Esch of de anarchie by Hermann Broch

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Le démon du bien by Henry de Montherlant

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Favorite authorsPeter Abelard, Alain, Jean Anouilh, Hannah Arendt, St. Augustine, Paul Auster, Saul Bellow, José Cabanis, Albert Camus, Elias Canetti, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Cicero, Joseph Conrad, St. John of the Cross, Theodore Dalrymple, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mircea Eliade, Norbert Elias, René Girard, Nikolai Gogol, Heinrich Heine, Michel Houellebecq, Bohumil Hrabal, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Franz Kafka, Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Koestler, Hans Küng, Henri de Lubac, François Mauriac, Molière, Henry de Montherlant, Alberto Moravia, Gérard de Nerval, Thích Nhât Hanh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Blaise Pascal, Fernando Pessoa, Edgar Allan Poe, John Cowper Powys, Marcel Proust, Thomas De Quincey, Jean Racine, Benedetto XVI, Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon, William Shakespeare, Peter Sloterdijk, George Steiner, Stendhal, Leo Tolstoy, Jacques de Visscher, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams (Shared favorites)

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Autobiography (Picador Books) by John Cowper Powys

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Les Antigones by George Steiner

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In de bovenkooi : verhalen by J.M.A. Biesheuvel

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De schone slaapsters by Yasunari Kawabata

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Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics) by Seneca

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Science of the Mind: 2nd Edition by Owen J. Flanagan

Having seen Abelard as the first name on your list of favorite authors, I wondered if you have ever seen the long ooem about him (fiction in verse): [Abelard] by [Cedric Whitman]. It was in the main stream of publishing, and by a publisher that rarely publishes poetry: (Harvard University Press, 1965) I suppose it didnʻt hurt him to be on the Harvard faculty (Classics) at the time, although, in academic publishing, there wasnʻt much correlation, at the time, between a writerʻs academic affiliation and the university that published him. IWhitmanʻs [Abelard] couldnʻt be said to be a household word among "modern" poetry devotees of the time.

I remember a French language conversation (none of us were native speakers of French) in which someone (male) said something good or neutral about another author on your list, Montherlant. Someone else (female) said, "Jʻai lu Montherlant, et il est tres, tres MAL!" I donʻt know if you are Flamand, Wallon, or other. And Whether that is good criticism , or even good French, I have no idea.

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