[Publib] Best Books Request

[Susan P Librarian]

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Tom Cooper <tcooper at wgpl.org> wrote:
> Hi All – I'm wondering if you'd be interested in helping me assemble a
> bibliography I've been wanting to do. Once it's done, I'll share it. You may
> recall that recently the permanent secretary of the Nobel Prize Committee
> stated that American authors were not likely to win the Nobel Prize for
> Literature because American readers were too insular and isolated. It was an
> insensitive thing to say on many levels, but it does bother me that many
> Americans spend their entire reading lives without learning much about the
> literature of other countries and cultures.
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> What I want to do is a bibliography of the best novels not written in
> English. There are the ones that anyone could pick, like Don Quixote, The
> Red and the Black, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Pere Goriot, et
> cetera. But then there are others like Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo or Yukio
> Mishima's Decay of the Angel that are less well known. So I am soliciting
> suggestions. What books have you read that were not written in English that
> made a big impression?
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> Thanks, and have a good weekend!
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> Tom Cooper, Director
> Webster Groves Public Library
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