{"id":35348,"date":"2026-06-14T07:41:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35348"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:50:44","slug":"checkov-not-depicteds-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/14\/checkov-not-depicteds-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkov (Not Depicted)&#8217;s Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned yesterday when I finished <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/13\/on-great-authors-of-the-western-literary-tradition-part-vii-with-professor-james-a-w-hefferman-2004\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition<\/a><\/em> that I would do a roll-up post of the authors\/works in the lecture series as a quiz style list to highlight which authors\/works I&#8217;ve read (in bold) and whose works are in my stacks to read (underlined).<\/p>\n<p>I will throw the list under the fold because it&#8217;s an 80+ bulleted list with some comment.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><b>The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/b><\/em>.  Certainly not before the blog (or was it?), but I don&#8217;t see a book report on it.<\/li>\n<li><b>Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis<\/b> I&#8217;ve read the Protestant bible, so of course I can bold all lectures on it.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Deuteronomistic History<\/b> (ibid.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Isaiah<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Job<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Homer\u2013The Iliad<\/b> At least once, in some form or another, although more likely an adaptation and not a direct translation, although I have one or more of those around as well.<\/li>\n<li><b>Homer\u2013The Odyssey<\/b> (ibid.)<\/li>\n<li>Sappho and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/book-report-the-complete-odes-by-pindar-translated-by-anthony-verity-2007\/\" target=\"_new\"><b>Pindar<\/b><\/a>&#8211;last October, no less.<\/li>\n<li>Aeschylus&#8211;I think so, but I cannot be certain.  So no bolding here.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sophocles<\/b>&#8211;see <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/book-report-the-oedipus-cycle-by-sophocles-translated-by-dudley-fitts-and-robert-fitzgerald-1969\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Oedipus Cycle<\/em><\/a>, which I read in 2015.<\/li>\n<li><b>Euripides<\/b>&#8211;I read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/02\/book-report-the-cyclops-heracles-iphegenia-in-tauris-helen-by-euripedes-1969\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Cyclops\/Heracles\/Iphegenia in Tauris\/Helen<\/em><\/a> in 2020.<\/li>\n<li><u>Herodotus<\/u>&#8211;I have some of his histories around here somewhere.<\/li>\n<li><u>Thucydides<\/u> I also have one or more volumes of his work around here I think.<\/li>\n<li><b>Aristophanes<\/b>&#8212; I read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/01\/book-report-three-comedies-by-aristophanes-edited-by-william-arrowsmith-1969\/\" target=\"_new\">The Birds, The Clouds,<\/em>, and <em>The Wasps<\/em><\/a> in 2021 and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/13\/1951\/\" target=\"_new\">The Birds<\/a><\/em> previously in 2005.<\/em>\n<li><b>Plato<\/b>&#8211;a couple of dialogues&#8211;<em>The Republic<\/em>?  <em>Phado<\/em>?  I have a Classics Club edition I started working my way through a couple years back but didn&#8217;t finish it.<\/li>\n<li>Menander and Hellenistic Literature<\/li>\n<li>Catullus and Horace&#8211;I <em>might<\/em> have a volume of Horace around somewhere.<\/li>\n<li><u>Virgil<\/u>&#8211;I have a copy of <em>The Aeneid<\/em> that I&#8217;ve thought of picking up from time to time after listening to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/18\/on-the-aeneid-of-virgil-by-professor-elizabeth-vandiver-1999\/\" target=\"_new\">The Aeneid of Virgil<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><b><u>Ovid<\/u><\/b>&#8211;some of <em>The Metamorpheses<\/em> in college, and I have a Penguin paperback om the stacks.<\/li>\n<li><u>Livy<\/u>, Tacitus, <u>Plutarch<\/u>&#8211;I have two of the three in the stacks for sure, and maybe also Tacitus.  My stacks are deep.<\/li>\n<li>Petronious and Apuleius<\/li>\n<li><b>The Gospels<\/b><\/li>\n<li><u>Augustine<\/u>  I have at least one copy of <em>The Confessions<\/em> and a couple volumes of his other writings.  Again, I think about picking them up since listening to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/on-augustine-philosopher-and-saint-by-professor-phillip-cary-2005\/\" target=\"_new\">Augustine: Philosopher and Saint<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/16\/on-saint-augustine-read-by-charlton-heston-1990\/\" target=\"_new\">Saint Augustine<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Beowulf<\/b><\/li>\n<li>The Song of Roland<\/li>\n<li>El Cid<\/li>\n<li>Tristan and Isolt&#8211;although I did see the James Franco movie, and we did have a cat named Tristan for a while.<\/li>\n<li>The Romance of the Rose<\/li>\n<li>Dante Alighieri \u2014 Life and Works<\/li>\n<li>Dante Aligheieri \u2014 The Divine Comedy&#8211;well, I&#8217;ve read part of it&#8211;my beautiful then-girlfriend and I read part of it to each other back in the days before our marriage.<\/li>\n<li><b><u>Petrarch<\/u><\/b>&#8211;I&#8217;ve read some of his poetry and tend to favor the Italian sonnet when I do that sort of thing.<\/li>\n<li><u>Giovanni Boccaccio<\/u>&#8211;I&#8217;ve bought two copies of <em>The Decameron<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/03\/good-book-hunting-may-1-2021-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">2021<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/21\/good-book-hunting-june-20-2024-the-lutherans-for-life-church-rummage-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">2024<\/a> which, presumably, doubles my chances of reading it.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/b> I think I read this in high school or college.<\/li>\n<li><b>Geoffrey Chaucer \u2014 Life and Works<\/b> I did have a college class in him, after all, with Dr. Bodden.<\/li>\n<li><b><u>Geoffrey Chaucer \u2014 The Canterbury Tales<\/u><\/b>&#8211;I bought a better reading copy in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/good-album-hunting-wednesday-october-16-2019-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">2019<\/a> than the old used paperback I read in college (but only select tales).<\/li>\n<li>Christine de Pizan<\/li>\n<li>Erasmus<\/li>\n<li>Thomas More<\/li>\n<li><u>Michel de Montaigne<\/u>&#8211;I have started the Classics Club edition of it, but sent it back to the stacks at some point.<\/li>\n<li>Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais<\/li>\n<li><b>Christopher Marlowe<\/b>&#8212;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/book-report-doctor-faustus-by-christopher-marlowe-1592-1978\/\" target=\"_new\">Doctor Faustus<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/04\/book-report-edward-the-second-by-christopher-marlowe-1989\/\" target=\"_new\">Edward the Second<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><u>William Shakespeare \u2014 The Merchant of Venice<\/u><\/li>\n<li><b>William Shakespeare \u2014 Hamlet<\/b>&#8211;one or more times starting in high school.<\/li>\n<li>Lope de Vega<\/li>\n<li><u>Miguel de Cervantes<\/u>&#8211;I presume I have a copy of <em>Don Quixote<\/em> around here somewhere.<\/li>\n<li><b><u>John Milton<\/u><\/b>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/book-report-miltons-minor-poems-by-john-milton-edited-by-philo-melvyn-buck-jr-1894-1911\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Milton&#8217;s Minor Poems<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16\/book-report-miltons-comus-lycidas-etc-by-john-milton-edited-by-andrew-j-george-1899-1908\/\" target=\"_new\">Milton\u2019s Comus, Lycidas, Etc.<\/a><\/em> in 2020.<\/li>\n<li><u>Blaise Pascal<\/u>&#8211;I got <em><\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/29\/good-book-hunting-friday-april-29-2022-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-and-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\">2022<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Moli\u00e8re<\/li>\n<li>Jean Racine<\/li>\n<li><b>Sister Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz<\/b>&#8211;as I mentioned, I read one of her poems in Spanish in high school or the university.<\/li>\n<li><b>Daniel Defoe<\/b>&#8211;I read <em>Robinson Crusoe<\/em> in middle school or high school.<\/li>\n<li><b>Alexander Pope<\/b>&#8211;as I mentioned, Pope is the first author whom I read when prompted by this series.  I read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/10\/book-report-the-rape-of-the-lock-and-other-poems-by-alexander-pope-1901\/\" target=\"_new\">The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems<\/a><\/em> earlier this month.<\/li>\n<li><b>Jonathan Swift<\/b>&#8211;I &#8220;just&#8221; read <em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/book-report-gullivers-travels-by-jonathan-swift-1948\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2016<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Voltaire<\/b>&#8211;my beautiful then-girlfriend and I read <em>Candide<\/em> together at the end of the last century.<\/li>\n<li><u>Jean-Jacques Rosseau<\/u>&#8211;oh, I have something of his around here somewhere.<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Johnson&#8211;not sure if I have his work around, but I hope I do.<\/li>\n<li>Denis Diderot<\/li>\n<li><b>William Blake<\/b>&#8211;some of his works, but only <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/book-report-drawings-of-william-blake-by-sir-geoffrey-keynes-1970\/\" target=\"_new\">Drawings of William Blake<\/a><\/em> is on the blog.<\/li>\n<li>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/li>\n<li><b>William Wordsworth<\/b>&#8211;I have read some of his works, but I need to get on with reading &#8220;The Prelude&#8221; and others.<\/li>\n<li><b>Jane Austen<\/b>&#8212;<em>Emma<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/book-report-emma-by-jane-austen-1996\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2006<\/a> and <em>Sense and Sensibility<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/book-report-sense-and-sensibility-by-jane-austen-1996\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2008<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Stendahl<\/li>\n<li><b>Herman Melville<\/b> <em>Moby Dick<\/em> and &#8220;Bartleby the Scrivener&#8221; in college.<\/li>\n<li><b>Walt Whitman<\/b><\/li>\n<li><u>Gustave Flaubert<\/u>&#8211;when looking through the stacks recently, I came across <em>Madame Bovary<\/em>, so I kinda know where it is <strike>if<\/strike> when I want to read it.<\/li>\n<li><b>Charles Dickens<\/b>&#8211;I&#8217;m just going to link to the blog search for <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=%22Charles+Dickens%22+book+report\" target=\"_new\">Charles Dickens book report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/b>&#8212;<em>Crime and Punishment<\/em> in middle school or high school and <em>Notes from Underground<\/em> sometime this century, but it was part of a three piece omnibus, so I don&#8217;t have a book report on it.<\/li>\n<li><b>Leo Tolstoy<\/b>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/book-report-anna-karenina-by-leo-tolstoy-1877-1992\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Anna Karenina<\/em><\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/30\/book-report-the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-by-leo-tolstoy-1987\/\" target=\"_new\">The Death of Ivan Ilyich<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/book-report-a-confession-and-other-religious-writings-by-leo-tolstoy-1987\/\" target=\"_new\">A Confession and Other Religious Writings<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mark Twain<\/b>&#8212;<em>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer<\/em> and <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, but all I have a book report for is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/19\/book-report-the-celebrated-jumping-frog-and-other-stories-by-mark-twain-1992\/\" target=\"_new\">The Celebrated Jumping Frog and Other Stories<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Thomas Hardy<\/b>&#8211;c&#8217;mon, man, I&#8217;m not Kim du Toit, but I&#8217;ve read some Hardy.  <em>Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles<\/em> in college and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/book-report-under-a-greenwood-tree-by-thomas-hardy-1871-1983\/\" target=\"_new\">Under a Greenwood Tree<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/book-report-a-pair-of-blue-eyes-by-thomas-hardy-1873-1986\/\" target=\"_new\">A Pair of Blue Eyes<\/a><\/em> this century.  Along with the first chapter of <em>The Return of the Native<\/em> once or twice in different editions I have in the stacks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Oscar Wilde<\/b>&#8211;I read <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/03\/book-report-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-by-oscar-wilde-1891-2007\/\" target=\"_new\">2021<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><u>Henry James<\/u>&#8211;I&#8217;m more partial to his brother, of course.<\/li>\n<li><b>Joseph Conrad<\/b>&#8211;I read <em>The Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/27\/book-report-heart-of-darkness-and-the-secret-sharer-by-joseph-conrad-1969\/\" target=\"_new\">almost 20 years ago<\/a> and the first pages of <em>Lord Jim<\/em> more recently on a vacation&#8211;but it proved not to be vacation reading.<\/li>\n<li><b>William Butler Yeats<\/b>&#8211;a poem or two, but not the complete works (yet).<\/li>\n<li>Marcel Proust<\/li>\n<li><u>James Joyce<\/u>&#8211;I have both <em>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em> and <em>Ulysses<\/em> around here somewhere.<\/li>\n<li><b>Franz Kafka<\/b>&#8211;I read <em>Collected Stories<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/book-report-collected-stories-by-franz-kafka-1993\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2006<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Virgina Woolf<\/b>&#8212;<em>To the Lighthouse<\/em> in college.  I also watched <em>Mrs. Dalloway<\/em> in the theater because I was arty, briefly.<\/li>\n<li><b>William Faulkner<\/b>&#8211;I am being a little bold with the bold here&#8211;although I was supposed to read <em>The Sound and the Fury<\/em> in college, I did not make it through the first section.  I later picked it up again and made it through the first section but stalled in the second.  Someday, I might make it through the novel.  Which won&#8217;t help, because the copy I got <em>for<\/em> college was a Barnes and Noble omnibus edition with two or three other novels in it.  I haven&#8217;t seen it recently when combing the stacks&#8211;I&#8217;ll have to look for it for curiosity&#8217;s sake.<\/li>\n<li>Bertholt Brecht<\/li>\n<li><b>Albert Camus<\/b>&#8211;see <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/book-report-the-stranger-by-albert-camus-1946-1963\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Stranger<\/em><\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/17\/book-report-the-fall-by-albert-camus-1956\/\" target=\"_new\">The Fall<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/book-report-the-plague-by-albert-camus-1948-1962\/\" target=\"_new\">The Plague<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/book-report-caligula-and-3-other-plays-by-albert-camus-1958\/\" target=\"_new\">Caligula and 3 Other Plays<\/a><\/em>.  Note that <em>The Stranger<\/em> and <em>The Plague<\/em> were re-reads.  I want to read <em>The Plague<\/em> (the focus of the lecture) and <em>The Fall<\/em> again.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Samuel Beckett<\/b> I read <em>Waiting for Godot<\/em> in&#8230;. college?<\/li>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well.  Not as good as I&#8217;d hoped when I started the markup.  But probably better than an English major from the 1990s, and most probably better than an English major today.<\/p>\n<p>Of the ones that I haven&#8217;t read and don&#8217;t own, I guess the Erasmus, Thomas More, and maybe a couple of the French playwrights.  Proust?  Might be a stretch for me, but who knows.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;ll keep reading, and sometimes (not too often&#8211;once or twice a year), I&#8217;ll read something that would please Harold Bloom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned yesterday when I finished Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition that I would do a roll-up post of the authors\/works in the lecture series as a quiz style list to highlight which authors\/works I&#8217;ve read (in bold) and whose works are in my stacks to read (underlined). 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