A Reader on Reading

Education: and basic human needs; a citizen’s; constraints on learning to read; and critical questioning; humanist; vs. job training; prestige of; reading instruction; in scholastic classroom

Eichmann, Adolf

Elberg, Yehuda

Electronic text: vs. books; library of; page of; and purpose of reading; reading voice of

Eliot, T. S., The Waste Land

Ellis, Bret Easton, American Psycho

El País

Eluard, Paul

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Engel, Marian; Bear

Engels, Friedrich, The Origins of the Family

Enigma de la calle Arcos (attributed to Borges)

Enlightenment

Epic of Gilgamesh

Erasmus

Erotic experience: of children; condemnation of; and erotic objects; as solitary

Erotic literature: constraints on; language of; learning from; myth of Eros and Psyche; vs. pornography; universal library

Erzenga, Hovhannés d’ (Blouz)

Esmenard, Francis

Exile, and perseverance of memory

Faerie Queene (Spenser)

Fagles, Robert

Family Circus

Faulkner, William

Fierstein, Harvey, Torchsong Trilogy

Filología

Findley, Timothy; The Butterfly Plague

Finkielkraut, Alain, The Imaginary Jew

Firbank, Ronald, Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flaubert, Gustave; Dictionary of Clichés; Madame Bovary

Fleming, Victor

Flödényi, Lázló

Fondo de Cultura Económica

Forché, Carolyn

Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India; Maurice

Foucault, Michel: History of Sexuality; Les Mots et les choses

Fourier, Charles

Fournival, Richard de

Franci, Giovanna

Francklin, Thomas

François I

Frank, Anne

French Revolution

Friedrich II (“the Great”) of Prussia: “Le Conte du violon,”; gardens at Sanssouci; rebellious youth of; and Voltaire

Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia

Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia

Frye, Northrop

Full stop, in writing systems

Futurology

Gale, Patrick

Gallimard, Antoine

Gándara, Carmen

Garden of Eden

Gardens: and reading association; as “readymades,”; at Sanssouci

Gardner, Martin

Garnett, Constance

Garnett, Edward

Gauden, John

Gaudí, Antoni

Gay literature

Gays. See Homosexuality Genesis

Genet, Jean, Our Lady of the Flowers

Germany: apology and repentance of; Kultur; Nazi

Gide, André; Les Caves du Vatican; Les Nourritures terrestres; Si le grain ne meurt

Giordano, Tomás E.

Giovanni, Norman Thomas di

GlaxoSmithKline

Goebbels, Joseph

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gogol, Nikolai

Golding, Louis, The Jewish Problem

Goldwyn, Sam

Gordimer, Nadine

Gorky, Maxim, “A Man Is Born,” 108

Grant, Cary

Graves, Robert

Greek literature. See also individual authors

Greene, Graham; Travels with My Aunt

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Gross, Gerald

Guadalupi, Gianni

Guarini language, translation of

Guevara, Ernesto “Che”: appeal to younger generation; background of; capture and execution of; and revolutionary cause

Gurganus, Alan

Gustafsson, Lars, Death of a Beekeeper

Hardy, Thomas

Harris, Frank

Hawkes, John

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, American Notebooks

Hazlitt, William

Heft, Nicolás

Heine, Heinrich; Atta Troll; “Die Lorelei,”

Heliodorus

Hemingway, Ernest

Heraclitus

Heresy, vs. blasphemy

Herodotus

Hirsch, Baron

Hita, Arcipreste de, Book of Loving Well

Hitler, Adolf

Hobbes, Thomas

Hokusai

Hollinghurst, Alan

Holocaust

Homer: blindness of; historical conceptions of; Iliad; as narrative voice; on sterility of war. See also Odyssey

Homosexuality: gay literature; gay terminology for; male and female; tolerance and intolerance of

Hopkins, Gerald Manley

Horace

Hour of the Furnaces (film)

Howard, Richard

Hurley, Andrew

Huxley, Aldous, The Doors of Perception

Hymn to Apollo

Ibâñez, Victor Armando

Ideal library

Ideal reader

Identity: constructed; Jewish; of narrator; national, fake; protean; self-discovery

Illia, Arturo Imagination

Insanity: of Alice’s Wonderland; Don Quixote deemed a madman; global madness; of human world

Intellectual property

Ionesco, Eugène, Rhinoceros

Isherwood, Christopher, A Single Man

Islam, and blasphemy

James, Henry; “The Figure in the Carpet,” x; “The Pupil,”

Jerome, Saint

Jesenskà, Milena

Jesuits, translation of Guarini language

Jesus Christ: sense of humor of; via Crucis; and Wandering Jew; wordplay of

Jeter, Jon

Jews: antisemitism in Perón’s Argentina; Borges’s defense of Jewish culture; identity of; perseverance of memory; righteous men (Lamed Wufniks); settlement in Argentina; and Torah; Wandering Jew legend

John of the Cross, Saint

Johnson, Samuel

Jonah (biblical), story of

Joubert, Joseph

Joyce, James; Finnegans Wake

Julius Caesar

Justinian, Emperor