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Member: balthazarb

CollectionsLiterature in Translation (206), Your library (721), Currently reading (2), Favorites (62), Zines (21), All collections (721)

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Favorite authorsSamuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Alejo Carpentier, Geoffrey Chaucer, E. E. Cummings, J.P. Donleavy, James Joyce, Herman Melville, Orhan Pamuk, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, José Saramago, P. G. Wodehouse (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresFrugal Muse West

About meI am of a readerly disposition. I tend to read too many things at once, but I can never give up my whorish ways. I did a senior thesis on Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales when I studied English at UW-Madison. For the past few years I've focused much of my reading energy on literature in translation. I consider Jose Saramago to be our greatest living writer. I also enjoy works by PG Wodehouse (who deserves to have a space in the literature section instead of the humor shelves where he is usually relegated) and his latterly dirty-minded incarnation JP Donleavy. In fact, my username comes from a character in one of Donleavy's novels, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, a wonderful book indeed. Oh, and I have a tattoo inspired by Moby Dick.

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Member sinceJul 11, 2006

Currently readingThe Relic (European Classics) by Eca De Queiroz
A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar