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  • May. 13th, 2004 at 10:00 AM
SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING, DML della Pandemica
Where have you gone?

Anyhoo, the object is to embolden the ones you've read, and italicize any important notes.

Cribbed from [info]brannen and Richard Rush.

Beowulf (in translation)
Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
Agee, James - A Death in the Family
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain
Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (in translation)
Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights (performed thesis)
Camus, Albert - The Stranger (in translation)
Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop
Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales (in translation)
Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cooper, James Fenimore - The Last of the Mohicans

Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Dante - Inferno (in translation)
de Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
Eliot, George - The Mill on the Floss
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Essays
Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner, William - The Sound and the Fury

Fielding, Henry - Tom Jones
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
Ford, Ford Madox - The Good Soldier
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust (auf Deutsch)
Golding, William - Lord of the Flies
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey (traductus Latinos)
Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale - Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll's House
James, Henry - The Portrait of a Lady
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis (in English, auf Deutsch)
Kingston, Maxine Hong - The Woman Warrior
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Mann, Thomas - The Magic Mountain
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude (in translation)
Melville, Herman - Bartleby the Scrivener
Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
Miller, Arthur - The Crucible
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
O'Connor, Flannery - A Good Man is Hard to Find
O'Neill, Eugene - Long Day's Journey into Night
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
Poe, Edgar Allan - Selected Tales
Proust, Marcel - Swann's Way
Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49
Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
Roth, Henry - Call It Sleep
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet

Shaw, George Bernard - Pygmalion
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Sophocles - Antigone
Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (in English, Latin translations)
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William - Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Voltaire - Candide
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. - Harrison Bergeron
Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
Wharton, Edith - The House of Mirth
Welty, Eudora - Collected Stories
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass (developed thesis)
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Comments

[info]me_tew wrote:
May. 13th, 2004 07:36 am (UTC)
Now then...

How many (if any) did you enjoy?
[info]dmlaenker wrote:
May. 13th, 2004 08:16 am (UTC)
It slides along a spectrum.

L'Etranger and The Metamorphosis thrilled me, while I didn't feel I understood any of the Ancient Classics, Things Fall Apart was interchangeable with That Book About Yams in my head, and I was fairly certain Wuthering Heights was conspiring to kill me.
(Anonymous) wrote:
May. 15th, 2004 07:16 pm (UTC)
KT (starting an anti-live-jounal coalition!!)
What is is about Wuthering Heights that people hate so much? I think it's a fabulous book... Of course, I read it to my great-grandmother when I was 12 years old the year before she died. She got cateracts and couldn't see to read, so we spent the whole summer sitting out on the front porch of my grandparent's summer camp and I read to her from the novel... it was one of the best summers I've ever had. So I've got a lot of emotional investment in the book.

But still, I think it has one of the most breath-taking romantic soliloquies in all of literature "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it." Just beautifully heart-breaking...
[info]dmlaenker wrote:
May. 15th, 2004 10:32 pm (UTC)
Re: KT (starting an anti-live-jounal coalition!!)
Greg and Amir and I primarily hate it because we read it in the context of a barrage of deconstructive theses and countertheses we had to eat in order to write a deconstructive or refutatory thesis of our own.

The romance was summarily purged from the literature. I wish I could have had some moment by which to attach sentiment, but alas, not really.
[info]dmlaenker wrote:
May. 13th, 2004 08:18 am (UTC)
I was also quite fond of One Hundred Years of Solitude, and I was amused by Kurt Vonnegut as always and I liked Flannery O'Connor's bourgeois antiheroes.
[info]tspencer227 wrote:
May. 15th, 2004 12:26 am (UTC)
if you liked L' Etranger, it was even more incredible reading it in the original French....so much is lost in translation, like transposing a symphony to piano. Ditto for "Waiting for Godot" and even "Le Petit Prince", which I'm surprised is not on the list.

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