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I read a Project Gutenberg version, but Part II is really hard to find online, on a fluke the day I looked I happened to find a completed copy, but it appears the addition I had read is no longer avialable online. I am a afraid I cannot recall the translators name off the top of my head.
I hear that Walter Kaufmann is supposed to be a good transtation.
A lot of people also really like David Luke.
Herold Bloom recommended Stuart Atkins.
Hello Muse,
What if an author was a citizen of the U.S.S.R. when a novel was written but the republic in which they were born is now an independent country? For example, does Mikhail Bulgakov's The White Guard, whose action takes place entirely in and around Kiev and whose point of view is that of Kiev dwellers, count as Ukrainian?
That is a very interesting question. Mikhail Bulgakov is generally speaking considered to be a Russian author, but considering the changing landscape, and the fact that the book itself is centered on Kiev, I would say one could go either way with that one. It could be counted for Ukrainian.Quote:
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Excuse me, important news: Maya Angelou publishes her new book: Mom & I & Mom. Can't miss it.
The other day I find a copy by Stuart Atkins in my bookshelf that I have not read yet after 20 years ... it was a version published by Princeton with Part One and Two together.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
16. Scotland - Rob Roy by Sir Walter ScottQuote:
1.Japan - Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Russia - Demons by Dostoevsky
3. France - The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas
4. England - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5. India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
6. Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
7. Canada - World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
8. Turkey - My Name Is Red by Orhand Pamuk
9. Norway - The Wife by Sigrid Undset
10. Portugal - Blindness by Jose Saramago
11. Germany - Faust by Goethe
12. Spain - The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
13. Mexico - Rasero by Francisco Rebolledo
14. New Zeland - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
15. Iran - My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
17. Iceland - Iceland's Bell by Halldor LaxnessQuote:
1.Japan - Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Russia - Demons by Dostoevsky
3. France - The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas
4. England - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5. India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
6. Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
7. Canada - World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
8. Turkey - My Name Is Red by Orhand Pamuk
9. Norway - The Wife by Sigrid Undset
10. Portugal - Blindness by Jose Saramago
11. Germany - Faust by Goethe
12. Spain - The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
13. Mexico - Rasero by Francisco Rebolledo
14. New Zeland - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
15. Iran - My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
16. Scotland - Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Some more recommendations, of books that I've read and like:
Sri Lanka - "What the Buddha Taught" by Rahula.
Wales - Dylan Thomas - some short collection of his best poems! Note that Martin Amis was born in Wales, when his dad was working at Swansea university, so he's another option (London Fields maybe?)
Southern Ireland - Joyce, Dubliners
Northern Ireland - Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, or whatever takes your fancy if a translation isn't allowed.
Czech Republic (born in Prague) - Kafka - Metamorphosis and other stories
Argentina - Ficciones, Borges
Trinidad - A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipul
Austria - Frijof Capra - The Tao of Physics (...were all famous "Austrian" literary figures born in Prague :))
Italy - "Inferno" is obvious choice, but try Primo Levi - the Periodic Table for something modern.
Botswana - "The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency", if you are allowed to use the "set in" criteria rather than "place of birth". "Set in" would be useful, "Burmese Days" by Orwell, and many others, would then be allowed.
Corfu - My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell. Corfu is part of Greece, so are you going to allow distinct regions of countries? This is another "set in" rather than "born in" example: Durrell, although English, was born in India. Difficult man to classify! Is D.H.Lawrence's "Kangaroo" an Australian or English novel? Wouldn't recommend reading Lawrence, anyway - but the question is moot... And what about Lawrence of Arabia?
On the Polish question - Isaac Bashevis Singer was born in Poland. Can't you count him? It might be worth checking the birth places of other famous American authors to blag a few more European countries!
3. USA - Sewer, Gas & Electric. The Public Works Trilogy by Matt RuffQuote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
4. Ireland - Dracula by Bram Stoker
5. Mexico - The Strain by Guillermo De Toro and Chuck Hogan
Hmm. How about around the world in 80 books by ladies? From this year's reading:
1. UK - A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
2. China - 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo
3. USA - Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
4. India - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
5. France - Beside the Sea by Veronique Olmi
6. Italy - The Days of Abandonment by Elena FerranteQuote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
*Updated*
1.Japan - Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Russia - Demons by Dostoevsky
3. France - The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas
4. England - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5. India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
6. Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
7. Canada - World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
8. Turkey - My Name Is Red by Orhand Pamuk
9. Norway - The Wife by Sigrid Undset
10. Portugal - Blindness by Jose Saramago
11. Germany - Faust by Goethe
12. Spain - The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
13. Mexico - Rasero by Francisco Rebolledo
14. New Zeland - The Bone People by Keri Hulme
15. Iran - My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad
16. Scotland - Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
17. Iceland - Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness
18. Australia - Jacke Maggs by Peter Carey
If no one has mentioned it before now, the "american" selection wouldn't really be culturally complete without something from our native people. I'd recommend "I will Fight No More Forever" or "Black Elk Speaks". Both autobiographical stories of powerful first nation people.
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7. Hungary - The Proof by Agota KristofQuote:
Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
1.Japan ~ Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Dominica ~ Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
3. England ~ Master and Commander by O'Brien
4. India ~ A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
5. Canada ~ MaddAddam by Atwood
6. Turkey ~ My Name Is Red by Orhand Pamuk
7. Portugal ~ Blindness by Jose Saramago
8. USA ~ Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
9. Colombia ~ 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
10. Afghanistan ~ The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
11. Czech Republic ~ The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
12. Germany ~ Perfume by Patrick Suskind
13. Sweden ~ The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell
14. Italy ~ The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
15. Ireland ~ Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt