The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Further reading: The recent authorized biography by James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett contains a great deal of genuinely new material. See also: On Beckett: Essays and Criticism, edited and introduced by S.E. Gontarski; Hugh Kenner, Samuel Beckett. A Criticai Study; Charles Lyons, Samuel Beckett; J. Fletcher and J. Spurling, Beckett: A Study of His Plays; Vivian Mercier, Beckett/Beckett. For a more general approach, see Martin Esslin's excellent The Theatre of the Absurd.

W.H. Auden—The Complete Poetry is published by Random House, which also has a Selected Poems. See also Auden's Forewords and Afterwords from Random; Edward Mendelson, ed., The English Auden: Poems, Essays, and Dramatic Writings, 1927-39 (Faber and Faber).

Further reading: A.L. Rowse, The Poet Auden: A Personal Memoir; Humphrey Carpenter, W.H. Auden: A Biography; Richard Davenport-Hines, Auden; Anthony Hecht, The Hidden Law: The Poetry ofW.H. Auden.

Albert Camus—The Plague is in Modern Library and Vintage; The Stranger in Vintage. Other Camus titles of interest: The Fali, The Rebel, Exile and the Kingdom (ali Vintage); and The First Man, the manuscript of which was in Camus's car when he died, now newly published by Random House.

Further reading: Herbert Lottman, Albert Camus: A Biography, Germaine Brйe, Camus; Philip Thody, Albert Camus 1913-1960; Adele King, Camus; P.H. Rhein, Albert Camus; R. Quilliot, The Sea and Prisons; Patrick McCarthy, Camus: A Criticai Study of His Life and Work; Oliver Todd, Albert Camus: A Life.

Saul Bellow—Adventures of Augie March: Avon. Herzog: Avon, Penguin. Humboldfs Gift: Avon. Portable Saul Bellow: Penguin. More Die of Heartbreak: Morrow (hardbound).

Further reading: J.J. Clayton, Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man; Malcolm Bradbury, Saul Bellow; Earl Rovit, Saul Bellow; Earl Rovit, ed., Saul Bellow: A Collection of Criticai Essays.

Aleksander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn—The First Circle (Bantam); Cвncer Ward (Bantam, Dell); GulagArchipelago (3 vols., Harper & Row); One Day in the Life oflvan Denisovich (Signet).

Further reading: Hans Bjхrkgren, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Biography, tr. Kaa Eneberg; John B. Dunlop et al., Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Criticai Essays and Documentary Materials; Gyхrgi Lukбcs, Solzhenitsyn, tr. William D. Graf; Abraham Rothberg, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Major Novйis; Michael Scammell, Solzhenitsyn; Solzhenitsyn: A Pictorial Autobiography; D. Burg and G. Feifer, Solzhenitsyn.

Thomas Kuhn—The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (U. Chicago Press).

Further reading: Howard Margolis, Paradigms and Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Belief; Barry Barnes, Thomas Kuhn and Social Science; Paul Harwich, ed., World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science; Paul Hoyningan-Huene, Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science.