what no Mexico, allow me.
MEXICO
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo, El Llano en Llamas (burning plain)
Carlos Fuentes - Aura, La region mas transparente (where the air is clear), La Muerte de Artemio Cruz (the death of Artemio Cruz)
Octavio Paz - Laberintos de la soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude), poems
octa
I'm always home, I'm uncool.
Interesting to see this listed by country! I was very curious what book would be in the list to represent the Netherlands. It is always so hard to make lists like this! I wouldn't have been surprised if there wouldn't have been a book from the Netherlands in the list at all - I mean, it's just a little country in this big big world
I personally wouldn't put Mulisch in the top 100, but then again THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN is quite something. I don't know what other books might be read on an international level, but I myself was thinking Multatuli - Max Havelaar. Or, to stay in the 20th century and to name a well known book: Anna Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl (Het Achterhuis). But then again, there are so many books and every one of those has got something to say for itself... And even more if we add poetry... So lets just stick with Mulisch, why not? I'm sure he's OK with it
It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
Wolfsheim - It is not too late
Good thinking Sapphire. Let's add:Originally Posted by Sapphire
[color="blue"]Interesting to see this listed by country! I was very curious what book would be in the list to represent the Netherlands. It is always so hard to make lists like this! I wouldn't have been surprised if there wouldn't have been a book from the Netherlands in the list at all - I mean, it's just a little country in this big big world
Rituals, and
Lost Paradise
by Cees Nooteboom.
Both excellent, excellent books.
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Australia
Fiction
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
Illywhacker - Peter Carey
My Brilliant Career -Miles Franklin
Poor Fellow, My Country - Xavier Herbert
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf
Complete Stories - David Malouf
The Solid Mandala - Patrick White
The Eye of the Storm - Patrick White
The Vivisector - Patrick White
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
Poetry
Blood and Bone - Philip Hodgins
Collected Poems - AD Hope
Peripheral Light: New and Collected Poems - John Kinsella
Collected Poems - Les Murray
Once Bitten, Twice Bitten - Peter Porter
The Cost of Seriousness - Peter Porter
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'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.' - Groucho Marx
One is far more exposed to Western Literature these days. As an English major, a good majority of my classes concentrate solely on British and American works. I believe it's a bit forgivable, no?
Japan:
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
Kinkakuji - Yukio Mishima
Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
I'm reading Kokoro at the moment and it is excellent.
Also from Japan, I'd like to add A Dark Night's Passing by Naoya Shiga. Beautiful work.
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I'm glad someone added Australia (and Cloudstreet)
Hmmm everything seems pretty good on this list, but let me make a slight addition
Iran:
The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Last edited by Babak Movahed; 03-11-2010 at 01:21 AM.
Interesting but far from being Cortazar best work, which still his short stories, specially those about Cronopios and Famas. If anything, Dom Segundo Sombra, Martin Fierro, El Tunel de Sabato, Morel Invention are all more representative as romance of argentina tradition, at least somehow, they are not Borges.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 haven't had the change to pick it up yet. Recommended?
As Uruguay goes, Onetti must bow his head to Felisberto Hernandez and Horacio Quiroga, while talking about short stories. Quiroga is very important, history wise and well, it is quite hard to really put Argentina and Uruguay apart.
As Brazil goes...
Machado is not really a guy you can pinpoint a single work. Bras Cubas, I think it is a more original work than Dom Casmuro. But my favorite Machado are his short stories. His poetic work is quite good also. The same can be said about Rosa. Sagarana, A Outra Margem do Rio, etc.
Linspector is well reggarded, but not like Mario de Andrade and his Macunaima, Graciliano Ramos and Vidas Secas, Lima Barreto and Policarpo Quaresma and the obvious founder of brazilian novel tradition, Jose de Alencar. And Drummond is great poet, but jumping to him is ignoring all works of Castro Alves (Navio Negreiro) and Goncalves Dias (I-Juca Pirama) (and minor, but relevant poets from before the independence like Claudio Manoel da Costa) and people who wrote alongside him like Vincius de Moraes, Manoel Bandeira or Cecilia Meireles.
Onetti has wonderful novels ('Corpse Collector', 'Let the Wind Speak', 'The Shipyard').
'The Truce' is about the best thing Benedetti wrote. The work of his last years is essentially negligible.
I would add (as a starting-point and in no way a complete list) the following authors, some at least of which have been translated into English:
FICTION: Horacio Quiroga, Jules Supervielle, Felisberto Hernández, Anderssen Banchero, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Francisco Espínola, Armonía Somers, Tomás de Mattos, Antonio Larreta.
POETRY: Comte de Lautréamont (Isidore Ducasse), Julio Herrera y Reissig, Líber Falco, Idea Vilariño, Pedro Piccatto, Marosa di Giorgio.
DRAMA: Florencio Sánchez, Ernesto Herrera.
Australia
I agree with Sixsmith (and Jazz)....especially about Cloudstreet by Tim Winton and Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally (later filmed as Schindlers List)
but I would add:
Marcus Clarke: For The Term Of His Natural Life
Thomas Keneally: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
AB Facey: A Fortunate Life
Nam Le: The Boat
John Marsden: Tomorrow When The War Began
Moby-Dick, Merving
wat
nice list
The italian list is depressingly dry. It skips six centuries of literary history, at least a couple of which of outstanding quality. TWO books by Umberto Eco are honestly quite a lot, considering that Boccaccio and Ariosto have none.
If Latin classics are included (which they should not), limiting them to Ovid is at least brutal.
Even if we merely stick to literary relevance and influence, there is absolutely no ignoring Petrarca, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto.
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