[Publib] Best Books Request

[Catherine Les]

Hi -
I've enjoyed the novels of Arturo Perez Reverte,
especially the Club Dumas and the Flanders Panel.

Catherine McCullough Les
Technical Services Supervisor
Sterling Heights Public Library, MI

--- 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. 
> 
>  
> 
> 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 
> 
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> the harm they may do. 
>                                              Nassim
> Nicholas Taleb 
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