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**Beyond The Zero**

Weekly long-form discussions about books with authors, translators and critics from around the world.

Latest Episodes:

Thomas Kendall - HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN Jun 13, 2024

Show notes

@TPKendall

https://whiskeytit.com/product/how-i-killed-the-universal-man/

José Vergara - THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE DOG Jun 06, 2024

Show notes

https://josevergara.net

https://encyclopediaofthedog.com

Gateway books

James and the Giant Peach - Dahl

Redwall books - Brian Jacques

In Cold Blood - Capote

Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome

Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Invisible Man - Ellison

Slaughter House Five - Vonnegut

Ceremony - Leslie Marion Silko

Lolita - Nabokov

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

Current reads / recently enjoyed / looking forward to

Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett

Finnegan's Wake - Joyce

Extinction of Irena Rey - Jenny Croft

You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue

Ernestine Hayes

Fifteen Dogs - André Alexis

Mark Z. Danielewski

Ulysses

Daniil Kharms

Encyclopedia

Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin

Borges - Short Stories

Lincoln in the Bardo - Saunders

Anna Kerenina - Tolstoy

Gone Went Gone - Jenny Erpenbeck

Andrei - THE UNTRANSLATED May 30, 2024

Show notes

https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com

Gateway books

Nikolay Kun. “Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece”. Yulian Semyonov. “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. Alexander Belyaev. “Professor Dowell's Head” and “Amphibian Man”. Steven King's novels. Vladimir Sorokin. Collected Works in two volumes and “Blue Lard” Recently finished book Antonio Moresco. “Canto del buio e della luce”. Desert island books Thomas Pynchon. “Gravity's Rainbow”.

James Joyce. “Ulysses”.

Fernando del Paso. “José Trigo.”

Michael Lentz. “Schattenfroh”.

Miquel de Palol. “El Troiacord”.

Andrei Bely. “Petersburg”.

Umberto Eco. “The Name of the Rose”.

Jorge Luis Borges. “Ficciones” and “The Aleph”

Milorad Pavić. “Dictionary of the Khazars”.

Homer. “Odyssey”.

Rońań Hession - GHOST MOUNTAIN May 23, 2024

Show notes

Rońań Hession - GHOST MOUNTAIN

@MumblinDeafRo

Buy Rońań’s books from ;

https://bluemoosebooks.com/books/author/ronan-hession

Gateway books / Authors

Asterix Comics

Samuel Beckett

Walter Macken

Eileen Battersby - reviews

Japanese literature

Strange Weather in Tokyo - Hiromi Kawakami

Chichi to Ran - Mieko Kawakami

Yoko Tawada

Current reads / recently enjoyed /looking forward to

Plague of Souls - Mike McCormack

Heart be at Peace - Donal. Ryan

Cannibals - Shinya Tanaka

Five Spice Street Can Xue

The Physics of Sorrow - Georgi Gospodinov

The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild - Mathias Énard

Spent Light - Lara Pawson

The Sarah Book - Scott McClanahan

Desert Island books

Montaigne - Essays

Jon Fosse - Septology

Ágota Kristóf - Trilogy

Daša Drndić - EEG and Belladona

Alan Bennett - Diaries

Mauro Javier Cárdenas - AMERICAN ABDUCTIONS May 16, 2024

Show notes

https://www.maurojaviercardenas.com

buy the book from :

https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/american-abductions

Current reads /looking forward to

The Pinochet File - Peter Kornbluh

Mónica Ojeda

Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai

Gateway books

Correction - Thomas Bernhard

Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald

Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

To The Light House - Virginia Woolf

Desert Island books:

Melancholy of Resistance

Collected Novellas of Bolano

Annotated Mrs Dalloway - with Merve Emre

Chris Via - LEAF BY LEAF May 09, 2024

Show notes

Chris Via

https://www.youtube.com/@LeafbyLeaf/videos

Gateway books and authors

Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson

Michael Crichton

Stephen King

Richard Laymon

Current reads, Looking forward to

Nexus - Noah Yuval Harari

Rachel Cusk new book

Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai

The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk

Annihilation - Michel Houellebecq

Every Arc Bends Its Radian - Sergio De La Lava

The Instructions - Adam Levin

The New Testament - David Bentley Hart

The Tunnel - Gass

Benjamin Labatut - The Maniac

Pure Color - Sheila Heti

Desert Island books

Borges - Ficciones

Shakespeare

Iliad and The Odyssey

Complete Essays - Montaigne

King James Bible

Moby Dick

Proust - In Search of Lost Time

Ulysses - Joyce

Don Quixote

Megan McDowell - THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT by José Donoso May 02, 2024

Show notes

https://www.meganmcdowelltranslation.com

Order here :

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-obscene-bird-of-night/

Other books coming up from Megan in translation

José Donoso - La misteriosa desaparición de la marquesita de Loria - Coming next year

Mariana Enriquez - A Sunny Place for Shady People (SEPT)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757704/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/

Alejandro Zambra - Childish Literature (OCT)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737144/childish-literature-by-alejandro-zambra-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/

New Samanta Schweblin collection

Le fantôme de Truman Capote - Leila Guerriero

Other books mentioned:

Leila Guerriero - La llamada

La reina de las espadas - Jazmina Barrera (Upcoming translation from Two Lines)

Adam Levin - THE INSTRUCTIONS BAR MITZVA EDITION May 01, 2024

Show notes

Adam Levin

Buy The Bar Mitzva Edition here:

https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-instructions-bar-mitzvah-edition?taxon_id=1

Other books mentioned

Camille Bordas - The Material

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737042/the-material-by-camille-bordas/

No Judgment - Lauren Oyler

Wild Houses - Colin Barrett

Nathan Knapp - DAYBOOK Apr 26, 2024

Show notes

Nathan Knapp

⁠https://nathanknappwrites.wordpress.com/⁠

Buy Daybook here

https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/

Gateway books

Lord of the Rings

Notes From The Underground - Dostoyevsky

Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard

Annie Dillard

é Hill

Cormac McCarthy

In The Suavity of The Rock - Greg Gerke

Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions

Adam Erlich Sachs - Getel and the Great War

Gabriel Blackwell - Comment Section

Desert Island Books

Dream Songs - John Berryman

Witold Gombrowicz - Diary

Emil Cioran - Anathemas and Admirations

Gathering Evidence - Bernhard

Norwood - Charles Portis

God's Country - Percival Everett

Sound and The Fury

Ulysses

The Moviegoer Walker Percy

Children of the Dead - by Elfriede Jelinek Featuring Dustin Illingworth and Gitta Honneger. Apr 19, 2024

Show notes

Children of the Dead by Elfriede Jelinek translated by Gitta Honegger

Buy the book here :

https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9780300142150

Part 1

Dustin Illingworth

https://www.dustinillingworth.com/

Other books mentioned -

The Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso

Adam Erlich Sachs - Gretel and the Great War

Paul Celan And The Trans-Tibetan Angel Yoko Tawada

Mauro Javier Cardenas - American Abductions

Herscht 07769

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/herscht-07769/

Part 2

Gitta Honegger

Gateway books/authors

Albert Camus

Simone de Beauvoir

Arundhati Roy

Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle, Underground Railway

James - Percival Everett

Thomas Bernhard - Correction

Wittgenstein

Mark Twain - The Awful German Language

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

Desert Island books

Thomas Bernhard - Correction

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Louise Erdrich

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