A tentative Redonda reading and viewing schedule for 2014
January
Primary book: Disgrace
by J.M. Coatzee
Secondary book (extra credit): Amador by Fernando Savater
Film: The Godfather pt. 1
February
Primary: The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
Secondary: The Infinity of Lists by Umberto Eco
Film: Patience (After Sebald)
March
Primary: The Bad Girl
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Secondary: A
Different Sea by Claudio Magris
Film: Tie Me Up, Tie me Down
April
Primary: Danube by Claudio Magris
Secondary: Inferences
from a Sabre By Claudio Magris
Film: Alatriste
May
Primary: Three
Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Secondary: The Flight of the Monarch by Michel Braudeau
Film: Volver
June
Primary: The
Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Secondary: The Questions of Life by Fernando Savater
Film: Apocalypse Now
July
Primary: My
Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Secondary: Written
Lives by Javier Marías
Film: Don’t Tempt Me
August
Primary: Fado Alexandrino by António Lobo Antunes
Secondary: On the Natural History of Destruction by W. G. Sebald
Film: The Skin I Live In
September
Primary: City
of Marvels by Eduardo Mendoza
Secondary: Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
Film: Tetro
Secondary film (why not?) Biutiful
October
Primary: Your
Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear by Javier
Marías
Secondary: Cervantes by
P. E. Russell (the model for Sir Peter Wheeler)
Film: The
Ghost and Mrs. Muir (a favorite for Marías)
November
Primary: YFT:
Dance and Dream by Javier Marías
Secondary: The
Battle for Spain (first half) by Anthony
Beevor
Film: The
Chimes at Midnight (another Marías
favorite)
December
Primary: YFT:
Poison, Shadow, and Farewell by Javier
Marías
Secondary: The Battle for Spain (last half) by Anthony Beevor
Film: The Godfather pt. II
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