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I'm guessing Romania, am I correct? ;)

Oh! Thank you very much, that's not a bad list at all. I've added them. :)

Out of curiosity, what did you think of Hopscotch? I've heard about it and the concept looks extremely intriguing, but I...

Added them, thank you very much. :)

myrna22 is spot on with the first four suggestions. I haven't read the latter two, but the others, Catcher in the Rye especially, were great. I'd like to take the liberty of adding another title to...

Yes, exactly, that was the idea. Thank you for your suggestion, would you mind supplying a title or two?

Basically, the idea was that we try to compile a list of some of the best and most...

Oops. My bad, should've remembered though, I even translated him. Thank you. :)

EDIT: Reckon we should only list the very best a country has produced in terms of literature? i.e. get rid of a lot...

I've had the fortune to read Hugo (I haven't read Dumas) in my native tongue, while I struggled for hours on Cicero's jungle of words in Latin, so maybe that has something to do with it. Either way,...

Since Lit Net already has a Top 100 Books Ever Written and someone complained about the lack of good literature from his/her country quite recently, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of...

Exactly what I meant. His sentences are so long they are a drag to read. Even in the original Latin, which is supposed to be a rather compact language, his sentences seem endless.

Not that I have...

While I think Claus is still a matter of taste (I like his usage of short sentences, for example. Ever since reading Cicero, I've preferred short, simple sentences in clear prose over long and...

I strongly disagree. I assume you've read Claus' magnum opus The Sorrow of Belgium? If you haven't, you haven't read Claus. If you have, however, you must see why Claus is such a terrific writer. His...

No one is going to be influenced by literature without reading some.

These "barbarians" as you call them (which I find a degrading term for perfectly human human beings who are in general no more...

Well it would help if we knew where you were from. There are good novels being written in almost every language, so there should be an author out there that suits your taste.

I second Neely, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an excellent read. It may not be the most important or influential novel in the history of literature, but it's very witty and still a well-known novel,...

Actually, I believe I read somewhere that Wilde said the three main characters (Lord Henry, Dorian Gray and Basil) represented different aspects of him.

Basil represented himself as he saw...

I was read Le Petit Prince when I was very young, but I think the first literary work I read on my own was Robinson Crusoe. What age? About 7, I think, give or take a year.

Dutch author W.F. Hermans in Au Pair and several other novels.

I'd have said Dante in the Divine Comedy, but mayneverhave beat me to it.

Ah, well that would explain why I couldn't find any information on it then, wouldn't it? :p

I will have a look at the writings of Constructivist artists, certainly, but I was hoping there were...

Hello,

I've been browsing the web for a good hour now, but I can't seem to find any clear information on Constructivist literature. However, there's a reasonable amount of information to be found...

I don't know if you'd consider Mahfouz an author of classics, but I've found all of his works to be stylistically annoying for the first few pages. Had I stopped after the first page, I'd have missed...

For me, Kafka is the only obvious answer. I've read most of his oeuvre and didn't find one short story disappointing.

I must admit I haven't read a great many short stories by other writers,...

Probably my favourite work of fiction is Wedding Song, by Mahfouz. It's only a novella, but there was a sense of urgency in it that I won't forget.

The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
The Land of Heart's Desire, William Butler Yeats
Verwoest Arcadië, Gerrit Komrij
Wedding Song, Naguib Mahfouz
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
In the Penal...

Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.

Granted, the first half of the book has nothing to do with the ocean whatsoever, but the second part more than makes up for that! One of my favourite novels, even...

I thought it was a splendid book. The passages with Lord Henry are by far my favourite, but the rest of the novel isn't bad either. It is most the likely the only pre-1900 novel I love for the style...