[Publib] Best Books Request

[Taylor, Jane]

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.

 

Jane Taylor 

Branch Manager

Siouxland Libraries-Ronning Branch

3100 E 49th St

Sioux Falls, SD 57103

(605)367-8715

Fax (605)371-4144

jtaylor at siouxfalls.org <mailto:jtaylor at siouxfalls.org>  

website: www.siouxlandlib.org <http://www.siouxlandlib.org> 

 

 Message: 3

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:06:23 -0600

From: "Tom Cooper" <tcooper at wgpl.org>

Subject: [Publib] Best Books Request

To: <publib at webjunction.org>

Message-ID:

      <D0D6FD74554D8949AE1D43477038B4C90CA0BA at WGPLDC01.wgplstl.local>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

 

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. 

 

 

 

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? 

 

 

 

Thanks, and have a good weekend!

 

 

 

Tom Cooper, Director

Webster Groves Public Library

301 E. Lockwood

Webster Groves, MO 63119 

 

(314) 961-3784

tcooper at wgpl.org 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/publib/attachments/20081215/46c67bcb/attachment.htm