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books november 2017
Polo, Marco, Rustichello da Pisa, John Frampton (translator) and Milton Rugoff. The Travels of Marco Polo. Signet Classics, 2004. (published c. 1300).
Orwell, George. Why I Write. Penguin Books, 2005. (first edition 1946).
Morin, Amy. 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears and Train Your Brain. William Morrow, 2015.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland. Dover Publications, 1998. (published as a serial 1915, first published 1979).
Why I Write
Orwell, George. Why I Write. Penguin Books, 2005. (first edition 1946).
Four essays:
Why I Write (1946)
The Lion and the Unicorn (1940)
A Hanging (1930)
On Writing
King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. New York: Scribner, 2010. Print. First published 2000.
Cormac McCarthy reading list
To read
Fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah, Foster Bible. Via Wikimedia.
The Bible
Canterbury Tales, Woodcut 1484. Via Wikimedia.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess
Satan presiding at the Infernal Council. 1824. John Martin. Via Wikimedia.
John Milton: Paradise Lost Areopagitica
Shakespeare
Etching of Joseph O. Eaton’s portrait of Herman Melville. Via Wikimedia.
Herman Melville: Typee,Omoo,Moby-Dick
William Faulkner
Flannery O’Connor Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Thomas Pynchon: V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon
MacKinlay Kantor: Andersonville, If the South Had Won the Civil War
Portrait of Dostoyevsky (Ф.М.Достоевского) by Vasily Perov, 1872. Via Wikimedia.
Ф.М.Достоевского Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment
Nobel Laureates 1980-1984
Jaroslav Seifert 1984
Czechoslovakia/Austria-Hungary (poetry)
Deštník z Picadilly
William Golding 1983
UK (novel/poetry/drama)
Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Free Fall
Gabriel García Márquez 1982
Colombia (novel/short story)
Cien años de soledad, Crónica de una muerte anunciada, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
Elias Canetti 1981
UK/Bulgaria (drama/novel/essay)
Czesław Miłosz 1980
Poland (poetry/essay)
Nobel Laureates 1989-1985
Camilo José Cela 1989
Spain (novel/short story) (see Generacion del 36 and tremendismo)
The Family of Pascual Duarte (La familia de Pascual Duarte), La colmena, San Camilo, 1936
نجيب محفوظ Naguib Mahfouz 1988
Egypt (novel/short story/screenplay)
ثلاثية القاهرة The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk بين القصرين, Palace of Desire قصر الشوق, Sugar Street السكرية [Novels named after actual streets in Cairo,])
Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский Joseph Brodsky 1987
US/Soviet Union (poetry/essay)
Less Than One: Selected Essays, Collected Poems in English, 1972–1999, To Urania : Selected Poems, 1965–1985
Akinwándé Oluwolé Babátúndé Sóyinká Wole Soyinka 1986
Nigeria (drama/novel/poetry)
Season of Anomy, The Interpreters, Death and the King’s Horseman
Claude Simon 1985
France/Madagascar (novel)
Nobel Laureates 1994-1990
大江 健三郎 Kenzaburō Ōe 1994
Japan (novel)
Work: 個人的な体験 A Personal Matter, 万延元年のフットボール The Silent Cry
Toni Morrison 1993
US (novel)
Work: The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Song of Solomon
Derek Walcott 1992
Santa Lucia (poetry/drama)
Work: Dream on Monkey Mountain, Omeros,
Nadine Gordimer 1991
South Africa (novel/short story)
Work: The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People
Octavio Paz 1990
Mexico (poetry/essay)
Work: Piedra de sol, Salamandra, El laberinto de la soledad, Vislumbres de la India
Nobel Laureates 1999-1995
Günter Grass 1999
Germany (novel, drama, graphic design) Nazi Germany
Work: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years (Danzig Trilogy)
José Saramago 1998
Portugal (novel)
Work: Memorial do Convento (Baltasar and Blimunda), O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo (The Gospel According to Jesus Christ), Ensaio sobre a cegueira (Blindness), História do Cerco de Lisboa (The History of the Siege of Lisbon)
Dario Fo 1997
Italy (drama)
Work: Guerra di popolo in Cile, Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga! (Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, Il Papa e la strega (The Pope and the Witch)
Wisława Szymborska 1996
Poland (poetry)
Work: Love At First Sight poem (Watch Three Colors: Red), Here, View With a Grain of Salt: Selected Poems
Seamus Heaney 1995
UK/Ireland (poetry)
Work: Beowulf 1999 translation, Death of a Naturalist, The Spirit Level