It's good to have some of those Spanish-language books that haven't
already made it to our list. Did nobody mention "A Hundred Years of
Solitude" (Cien an~os de Soledad)? And I can tell you that as a
writer, I thought "El amor en los tiempos de colera" was stunning--an
old master on top of his game, no tricks.
Thanks, Alfredo.
On Oct 15, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Alfredo Covaleda wrote:
Let me introduce my big and brown nose in the middle of your
interesting conversation. Titles are in Spanish but are easy to
translate.
El Quijote de la Mancha. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Cien años de Soledad. García Márquez (Colombiano)
El amor en los tiempos del colera. García Márquez (Colombiano)
El Astillero. Juan Carlos Onetti (Uruguayo)
Las Lanzas Coloradas. Arturo Uslar Pietri (Venezolano) -->
historical about independence
La Vorágine. Jose Eustasio Rivera (Colombiano)
La hora 25. Constant Gheorghiu. (Rumano)
El nombre de la Rosa. Umberto Eco. (Italiano)
Maybe It is heretical to include next two books in a list of ten. I
agree. Probably are not depending what literature means.
Pulp. Charles Bukowsky (Estadinense nacido en Alemania)
Mucho después de media noche . Ray Bradbury (You know)
In a broad list I'll include:
El Perfume. Patrick Suskind (Alemán).
La Rayuela. Julio Cortazar (Argentino).
La Despedida. Milan Kundera. (Checo)
At least one book of stories of Horacio Quiroga like Cuentos de la
Selva or El Hombre Muerto (Uruguayo)
La Servidumbre Humana. William Somerset Maugham (Inglés).
La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre. Ramón Sender (España). --
> Did you see Herzog film witk Klaus Kinsky representing Lope de
Aguirre?
La Odisea del Rencor. Emil Ciorán. (Rumano). (Philosophy).
Un Cuento de Navidad or maybe Tiempos Difíciles de Charles Dickens
I know what does "El Ulises de Joyce" represent in Literature. I
have tried. Believe me... but I can't. I prefer thousands of times
Samuel Beckett than his fellow Joyce.
Alfredo
2010/10/12 Robert J. Cordingley <[email protected]>
What a terrific response! Thanks to everyone who shared their
recommendations. I've closed the list because with 119 candidates
we now can see 10 clear winners. Here are the top 10 Titles with
Author and (No. of Recommendations) that were recommended 3 or 4
times.
Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha (Don Quixote) by Miguel
de Cervantes (4)
Moby Dick or The Whale by Herman Melville (4)
Ulysses by James Joyce (4)
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (3)
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse (3)
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (3)
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse (3)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (3)
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse (3)
War & Peace by Lyev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy (3)
17 titles were recommended by 2 people, the remaining 92 only by 1.
25 people sent their recommendations. I believe I've actually read
7 of the recommended titles but none of them made the top 10, so I
do have a long way to go with my literary education!
I compiled the list from the posted emails using these guidelines:
I only included the first 10 mentioned if you went over the limit.
Thanks to those who stopped at 10 or less.
I didn't include any series, tho' I allowed one trilogy to remain on
the list
I didn't follow up on any referred lists because I wanted FRIAM list
members' recommendations, not someone else's, sorry.
I tried to exclude non-fiction.
I've sorted them by recommendations then alphabetically on title to
help you find your choices (with 'A' and 'The' at the end of their
titles).
The complete list is in the attached .xls file. Let me know if you
have any problems opening it.
Thanks again.
Robert C
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