…I was tagged by Geoffrey Philp for the 25 writers meme, in which you name 25 writers who have influenced you. These are not necessarily your favorite writers or those you most admire, but writers who have influenced you. Then you tag 25 people. I will choose the writers and tagged people as quickly as possible, because if not I will agonize over the choices. Therefore, writers living and dead, do not let your head swell if I name you or shrink if I do not, and people not tagged, do not think I am not interested in your lists – this meme is also self tagging. One thing this list may shed light on is my “masculine” writing style, as it reflects my androcentric education.
WRITERS:
Vicente Huidobro (Chile)
Hans Christian Andersen (Denmark)
The Brothers Grimm (Germany)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (USA)
Edith Nesbit (UK)
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (Spain)
Jules Michelet (France)
James Baldwin (USA)
Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
Federico García Lorca (Spain)
Julio Cortázar (Argentina)
Alejo Carpentier (Cuba)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Argentina)
José Eustasio Rivera (Colombia)
Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita (Spain)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
César Vallejo (Peru)
Leo Bersani (USA)
Fernando Pessoa (Portugal)
Charles Baudelaire (France)
Carolina Maria de Jesús (Brazil)
Gilberto Freyre (Brazil)
Kate Chopin (USA)
Amir Hamed (Uruguay)
Paulo Freire (Brazil)
All of these writers were very intense. Many have a Romantic tinge, and most were great sacrificers and penitents. (We do not know who wrote the Popol Vuh, but if this were a list of 25 books, that would be on it.)
I TAG:
13 Stoploss
A Gentleman’s C
Barbie
Case Vagenvoord
Chuto
Clio Bluestocking
Dead Voles
Freedom Rider
Hattie
J’s Theatre
Jennifer Cascadia Emphatic
Le Colonel Chabert
Lisa Chase
Lumpenprofessoriat
Momo
One Hundred and Twelve
OC Blue Philosopher
Posthegemony
Rebel Girl
Servetus
Susurro
The G Bitch
The Lotus Notebooks
Undine
Xicano Power
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
wow! Now I got homework!
Yeah. This will take some time.
Yes – I didn’t know whether I should tag people because it’s a huge project, really – and putting in the links takes time, too! The whole thing took me 2 weeks and I chose the writers and the people to tag as fast as possible!
Professor Zero, Baldwin keeps showing up, eh?
And why am I not surprised by this: “All of these writers were very intense. Many have a Romantic tinge, and most were great sacrificers and penitents.”
These may also be descriptions of your blog:
Romantic
intense
sacrificer
penitent
Peace,
Geoffrey
25? Yep, that’s some homework — or a really good productive procrastination project.
Thanks for listing me. I’d love to do this project, but I think I’d just list theoreticians.
Jennifer – nothing wrong with theoreticians! Clio – *productive* procrastination is good – I think this is semi productive or else it takes way too much time (to be 100% productive or 100% true or whatever) … Geoffrey, exactly right! 🙂
I’m just putting up my authors.
Here are mine – posted here first – later at my blog where few will really care. I tired to just write the list straight through without much agonizing – so:
1. Virginia Woolf
2. James Baldwin
3. Doris Lessing
4. Adrienne Rich
5. Grace Paley
6. Walt Whitman
7. Pablo Neruda
8. Odysseus Elytis
9. Margaret Atwood
10. Oakley Hall
11. Jane Austen
12. Henry James
13. John Cheever
14. Raymond Carver
15. Jayne Anne Phillips
16. Paco Ignacio Taibo II
17. Gary Soto
18. Raymond Chandler
19. Nathanael West
20. Joan Didion
21. Robert Hass
22. Kenneth Rexroth
23. Joy Williams
24. Sarah Orne Jewett
25. Oscar Zeta Acosta
Ok — here are my rather substantial building blocks:
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1. Frankfurt School
2. Judith Lewis Herman
3. Nietzsche
4. Bataille
5. James Joyce
6. Beckett
7. Luce Irigaray
8. Julia Kristeva
9. Kleinian school
10. Marechera
11. Blyton
12. Althusser
13. Lukacs
14. Bruce Lee
15. Emma Goldman
16. Wilfred Bion
17 Wordsworth
18. de Sade
19 Percy Shelly
20 Emily Brontë
RG – Baldwin comes up again! And you like Jayne Anne Phillips, another one I should have put … and that not enough people know … !!! I could say more but it’s late … I think I am also under the influence of Rexroth, more than I realize, it is some kind of substratum.
J – O good!!!
Guess I should post mine over here, too:
Louisa May Alcott
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
Henry James
Virginia Woolf
Doris Lessing
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Drabble
Theodor Fontane
George Eliot
Phillip Roth
Bernard Malamud
Mary McCarthy
Theodor Storm
A.J. Cronin
L. Frank Baum
Sigmund Freud
Franz Kafka
Janet Malcolm
Jeffrey Masson
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Thomas Wolf
Kate Millet
And I could put in a few more, too. Rexroth: Hmm. I actually went to a lecture and reading by him, back in the Dark Ages. He seemed more important to me then than he does now.
Here’s my list: From Seuss to Zizek.
I’ve put the meme up at my blog, Professor Z.