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# <s>''Darkness at Noon''</s>, Arthur Koestler, set in 1938 during the Stalinist purges and Moscow show trials. | # <s>''Darkness at Noon''</s>, Arthur Koestler, set in 1938 during the Stalinist purges and Moscow show trials. | ||
− | # ''Le Feld-Maréchal von Bonaparte'', Jean Dutourd. | + | # <s>''Le Feld-Maréchal von Bonaparte''</s> and ''Au bon beurre'', Jean Dutourd. |
− | # '' | + | #* Following reading le Feld-Maréchal in [[July (2018)]], and recognizing Dutour as a major contemporary writer and thinker, I add to this list ''Le Septième Jour'', ''2024'', ''Rivarol'' and ''Mémoires de Mary Watson'' as a first salve (there are more titles of interest). |
# ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' of [[Anne Frank]], classic. | # ''The Diary of a Young Girl'' of [[Anne Frank]], classic. | ||
# <s>''Things Fall Apart''</s>, Chinua Achebe (1958), as the most widely read book in contemporary African literature, focuses on the clash of colonialism, Christianity, and native African culture. | # <s>''Things Fall Apart''</s>, Chinua Achebe (1958), as the most widely read book in contemporary African literature, focuses on the clash of colonialism, Christianity, and native African culture. | ||
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# ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' Thomas Kuhn (1962, last edition 1978) changed our view of science from a fully rational enterprise to one fraught with bias and irrational elements | # ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' Thomas Kuhn (1962, last edition 1978) changed our view of science from a fully rational enterprise to one fraught with bias and irrational elements | ||
# ''The Secret Agent'', Joseph Conrad. Inspired a movie that inspired a score to [[Philip Glass]], the novel is noted as well. | # ''The Secret Agent'', Joseph Conrad. Inspired a movie that inspired a score to [[Philip Glass]], the novel is noted as well. | ||
− | # ''Amusing Ourselves to Death'', Neil Postman. An evil danger for society even [[Orwell]] might have overlooked. | + | # <s>''Amusing Ourselves to Death''</s>, Neil Postman. An evil danger for society even [[Orwell]] might have overlooked. |
+ | #* Interesting idea but a bore to read as too anchored in its time. | ||
# ''<s>L'Enculé</s>'' and ''L'âge du Christ'', Marc-Édouard Nabe. | # ''<s>L'Enculé</s>'' and ''L'âge du Christ'', Marc-Édouard Nabe. | ||
# ''Confessions of a Mask'', Yukio [[Mishima]], on homosexuality in wartime Japan; I put the more urgent ''Temple of the Golden Pavilion'' on my [[Blog:Fabrice/My_May_reading_list:_Sade,_Nabe_and_Mishima.|May reading list]]. | # ''Confessions of a Mask'', Yukio [[Mishima]], on homosexuality in wartime Japan; I put the more urgent ''Temple of the Golden Pavilion'' on my [[Blog:Fabrice/My_May_reading_list:_Sade,_Nabe_and_Mishima.|May reading list]]. | ||
# ''Billy-Ze-Kick'', Jean Vautrin, recommended by [[Henri Guillemin]] [http://goo.gl/UY2fl2]. | # ''Billy-Ze-Kick'', Jean Vautrin, recommended by [[Henri Guillemin]] [http://goo.gl/UY2fl2]. | ||
− | # Le camp des Saints, Jean Raspail. | + | # ''Le camp des Saints'', Jean Raspail. |
# <s>Catch-22</s>, major contemporary work that sets out the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic) catch-22 fallacy]. | # <s>Catch-22</s>, major contemporary work that sets out the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic) catch-22 fallacy]. | ||
− | # Works from [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric-Emmanuel_Schmitt Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt] such as [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Visiteur_(Schmitt) Le Visiteur] or [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%89vangile_selon_Pilate L'Évangile selon Pilate]. | + | # Works from [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric-Emmanuel_Schmitt Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt] such as <s>[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Visiteur_(Schmitt) Le Visiteur]</s> or <s>[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%89vangile_selon_Pilate L'Évangile selon Pilate]</s>. |
# The Good Soldier Švejk, a classic of Czech literature. | # The Good Soldier Švejk, a classic of Czech literature. | ||
− | # Everything from [[Kurt Vonnegut]]; after reading ''Slaughterhouse 5'', I realised that Vonnegut is probably a favourite Author (what ''Cat's cradle'' by itself did not make me realise right away although it gives a consistent picture). This could include as a first further exploring: ''Player Piano'' (first novel), ''Mother Night'' (memoirs of the American Nazi met by Bobby Pilgrim and ''Galapagos'', as a later work, featuring Darwinism. ''Breakfast of Champions'' should also surface at some point. | + | # Everything from [[Kurt Vonnegut]]; after reading ''Slaughterhouse 5'', I realised that Vonnegut is probably a favourite Author (what ''Cat's cradle'' by itself did not make me realise right away although it gives a consistent picture). This could include as a first further exploring: ''Player Piano'' (first novel), <s>''Mother Night''</s> (memoirs of the American Nazi met by Bobby Pilgrim) and ''Galapagos'', as a later work, featuring Darwinism. ''Breakfast of Champions'' should also surface at some point. |
# The portrait of the artist as a young man, not in my [[Blog:Fabrice/My_August_(2017)_reading_list|Joyce's reading list selection]] of August 2017. | # The portrait of the artist as a young man, not in my [[Blog:Fabrice/My_August_(2017)_reading_list|Joyce's reading list selection]] of August 2017. | ||
+ | # ''Robinson Crusoe'', Defoe, classic. | ||
+ | # ''The Call of the Wild'', Jack London, classic. | ||
+ | # ''Moby Dick'', Herman Melville. | ||
+ | # ''Madame Bovary'', Flaubert. | ||
+ | # ''La princesse de Clèves'', Madame de Lafayette | ||
+ | # ''The Sound and the Fury'', Faulkner [https://thegreatestbooks.org/items/85] | ||
+ | # ''La cantatrice chauve'', Eugène Ionesco. | ||
+ | # ''Les Faux-monnayeurs'', André Gide. | ||
+ | # ''Le Hussard sur le toit'' and ''Un roi sans divertissement'' from Jean Giono. | ||
+ | # ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'', François Mauriac | ||
+ | # ''The Tale of Genji'', Murasaki Shikibu | ||
+ | # ''The Wind in the Willows'', Kenneth Grahame | ||
+ | # ''White Teeth'', Zadie Smith | ||
+ | # ''The Man Without Qualities'', Robert Musil | ||
I have a much longer reading list but it is not in electronic format yet, so I just add titles here now. | I have a much longer reading list but it is not in electronic format yet, so I just add titles here now. |
in no particular order (I aggregate at the end). Entries stroke through are those I finally read.
I have a much longer reading list but it is not in electronic format yet, so I just add titles here now.