Essential books by language

[Anonymous No.11534777]

English: Hamlet, Moby Dick, Alice's adventures in wonderland, Infinite Jest
Spanish: Don Quixote, Fictions, 2666, 100 Years of Solitude
French: Les Miserables, The Stranger, The Count of Montecristo, Madame Bovary
German: Faust, Siddartha, The Metamorphosis
Russian: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
Italian: The Divine Comedy, If on a winter's night a traveler
Norwegian: Hunger, A Doll's House
Greek: The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Bible
Latin: The Aeneid, The Metamorphoses

[Anonymous No.11534847]

>>11534777
gay lol

[Anonymous No.11534868]

>>11534777
And portuguese?
Nice trips

[Anonymous No.11534874]

French: in search of lost time

[Anonymous No.11534886]

>>11534777
FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.11534888]

>>11534777
For spanish I would add Hopscotch and remove Fictions and 2666. Only Faust and Madame Bovary are correct in german and french, there’s a lot of stuff that’s more important than The Stranger or Siddharta. You forgot Tristram Shandy too.
>Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.11534905]

>>11534888
Why would you remove Ficciones and add Hopscotch?

[Anonymous No.11534926]

cien años is not a very good book. And ive read it three times. Id put pedro paramo in its place (since garcia marquez ripped a few elements from it). Fucking meme list made me reply

[Anonymous No.11534935]

>>11534868
The Book of Disquiet, Blindness, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, Dom Casmurro

[Anonymous No.11534947]

A Doll's House was bad and the writer should feel bad

[Anonymous No.11534986]

>>11534777
Waste of trips

>>11534926
to be fair borges and bolaño don't belong there either. neither does calvino, dumas, camus, hugo, dfw, carroll, ibsen, hesse, kafka, probably ovid

[Anonymous No.11535034]

>>11534777
Isn't most of the Bible written in hebrew and in aramaic?

[Anonymous No.11535093]

>>11534986
What are you supposed to read then

[Anonymous No.11535188]

>>11535093
Spanish: Don Quijote
English: Hamlet
German: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship or Faust
French: Madam Bovary
Italian: Divine Comedy
Portuguese: Os lusiadas
Russian: Karamazov
Classic Latin: Odes (Horace)
Ecclesiastical Latin: Vulgate
Homeric Greek: Homer
Attic Greek: Oresteia
Koine: NT

you can go on

[Anonymous No.11535194]

>>11534986
Borges is the best writer in Spanish in the 21st century. Gtfo

[Anonymous No.11535225]

>>11535194
lol

>>11535188
Now that I think about it Le Cid or Gargantua and Pantagruel should be in French

[Anonymous No.11535232]

>>11534777
>2666

It's good, Bolaño is a great writer but he isn't one the best of the history. You, anglos, overrate him so much.

[Anonymous No.11535233]

>>11535225
>Borges is the best writer in Spanish in the 21st century. Gtfo
>lol
What did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.11535248]

>>11535232
>You, anglos, overrate him so much.
Name a better writer from his generation. I'll wait.

[Anonymous No.11535257]

>>11535248
He is probably the best of his generation, but we are talking about the best spanish literature of history.

[Anonymous No.11535273]

>>11535257
Tirso de Molina is probably my favorite Spanish writer.

[Anonymous No.11535304]

>>11535257
He still better than those rancid Spaniards from the 1700-1800s.

[Anonymous No.11535310]

>>11535188
>only one book
And then?

[Anonymous No.11535418]

>>11534777
>French: Les Miserables, The Stranger, The Count of Montecristo, Madame Bovary
No no no. The Stranger is strongly overrated outside France. Nobody in France would count it as an essential book. It's probably among the top 5 novels of the 20th century, but no more than that.
Monte Cristo : no. Too popular stuff. You have Rabelais, Montaigne, Balzac (Le Père Goriot), Voltaire, and many others who deserve much more than Dumas.

[Anonymous No.11535499]

>>11534905
Hopscotch is an ambitious yet succesful work. It’s very charged with questions and problems for the reader. A defining novel to be honest. It’s what art is about.

Also you could read Borges essays’ and you would get nearly the same you get with Fictions