Ryssarna håller stilen
Författare från 54 länder har enats om vilka som är världshistoriens 100 bästa böcker. Kul lista, dock utan inbördes ranking.
Det glädjer mig att ryssarna får bra utfall. Dostojevskij drar in fyra böcker på listan (Brott och straff, Idioten, Bröderna Karamazov och Onda andar). Där finns även Tjechov, Gogol, Nabokov och Tolstoj. Rödbetssoppa åt dem alla!
Vill man läsa nyare rysk litteratur (utanför 100-listan) är det Dmitri Gluchovskij som gäller. Hans Metro 2033 har blivit en världsuccé och beskrivs som en postapokalyptisk dystopi.
Storyn i korthet: Världen har gått under. I Moskvas atombombssäkra tunnelbanesystem klamrar sig några tusen människor kvar vid livet. Mer eller mindre civiliserat.
En uppföljare är på gång och ja, den ska heta Metro 2034.
maj 19th, 2010 at 12:32
Hela listan i alfabetisk ordning:
¤ Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
¤ Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
¤ Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
¤ Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
¤ Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
¤ Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
¤ Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
¤ Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
¤ Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
¤ Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
¤ Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
¤ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
¤ Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
¤ Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
¤ Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
¤ Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
¤ Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
¤ Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
¤ Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
¤ Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
¤ George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
¤ Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
¤ Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
¤ William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
¤ Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
¤ Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
¤ Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
¤ Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
¤ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
¤ Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
¤ Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
¤ Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
¤ Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
¤ Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
¤ Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
¤ Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll’s House
¤ The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
¤ James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
¤ Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
¤ Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
¤ Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
¤ Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
¤ DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
¤ Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
¤ Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
¤ Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
¤ Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
¤ Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
¤ Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).
¤ Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
¤ Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
¤ Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
¤ Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.
¤ Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
¤ Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
¤ Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
¤ Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
¤ Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
¤ Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
¤ George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
¤ Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
¤ Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
¤ Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
¤ Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
¤ Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
¤ Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
¤ Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
¤ Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight’s Children
¤ Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
¤ Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
¤ Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
¤ William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
¤ Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
¤ Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
¤ Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
¤ Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
¤ Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver’s Travels
¤ Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
¤ Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
¤ Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
¤ Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
¤ Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
¤ Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
¤ Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
¤ Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
maj 19th, 2010 at 12:40
Jag gillar Astrid, tro inget annat, men känns Pippi Långstrump inte lite malplacerad på denna listan?
maj 19th, 2010 at 13:34
Alla gillar Astrid. Men Longstocking och Illiaden, Longstocking versus Albert Camus, Longstocking jämte Kung Lear? Fan tro´t.
maj 19th, 2010 at 15:21
kul att jag är med :)
memoirs of hadrian är en toppbok, för alla som missat, fransk stilsäkerhet
maj 19th, 2010 at 16:14
Då får man testa Yourcenar…
…fint att Hamsuns ”Svält” är med. Hunger åt folket.