Epistolary Reading Challenge 2017: The Summary

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In February I signed up for the Epistolary Reading Challenge 2017 that Jamie Ghione hosted on Whatever I Think Of because it was the month of letters. I made a Longlist of 100 Novels in Letters, but of course, I couldn’t read all of them, nor did I plan to. Nevertheless, in 2017 I read and reviewed here on Edith’s Miscellany and on my BOOKLIKES blog Lagraziana’s Kalliopeion more epistolary fiction than I used to before, namely altogether eight of the 100.

My favourite epistolary novel of the year is Vita Brevis. A Letter to Saint Augustine by Jostein Gaarder, closely followed by So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ and Black Box by Amos Oz.

And here’s my summary List of Epistolary Reads 2017 in alphabetical order by authors’ family names including dates of release and original titles if they aren’t English:

• Mariama Bâ: So Long a Letter (1979), original French title: Une si longue lettre
• Ingeborg Bachmann: Letters to Felician (1946/1991), original German title: Briefe an Felician
• Jostein Gaarder: Vita Brevis. A Letter to Saint Augustine (1996), original Norwegian title: Vita brevis  »»» on Lagraziana's Kalliopeion
• Jay Griffiths: A Love Letter from a Stray Moon (2011)
• Christopher Isherwood: A Meeting by the River (1967)
• Else Lasker-Schüler: The Heart (1912), original German title: Mein Herz (1912)
• Miyamoto Teru: Kinshu. Autumn Brocade (1982), original Japanese title: 錦繍
• Amos Oz: Black Box (1986), original Hebrew title: קופסה שחורה