![]() ![]() Not just a pool game or a video messaging app, the Venetian traveler Marco Polo casts his own ethnographic eye around the court of Kublai Khan. Described by one Lit Hum student as “a guilty pleasure” and “much better than the Iliad and the Odyssey.” When asked what the novel is about, Tolstoy famously replied that if he could answer that question he would not have written the novel.Ī gigantic historical novel set in India during partition about love, loss, and family.Ī fundamental text of the Hindu religion, sometimes classified as history or epic. Although Dostoevsky may have had an appetite for religious, philosophical, and moral questions, he did so as an artist who cared passionately about depicting the surface of character as well as its depth and who explored the innumerable ramifications of single, often simple acts.” – Robin Feuer Miller in The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the NovelĪnother gripping 800-page Russian novel. He is accompanied by his faithful companions Monkey and Pigsy, on what is both a literal and metaphorical journey to enlightenment.ĭostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864)Ī novella highly regarded by the French existentialists, Notes introduces the underground man, an unreliable first-person narrator, who champions free will and polemicizes against the view that man is rational creature who always acts in his own self-interest.ĭostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80)Ī gripping 800-page novel that “has engrossed and moved numerous generations of readers. Electronic edition available.Īn epic tale of a Chinese monk who travels to India to retrieve Buddhist scriptures and meets various demons and other creatures along the way. In the final poem (XII), James Joyce appears as a sort of Virgil-figure to provide Heaney with guidance. Patrick’s Purgatory, is inspired directly by Dante, and is concerned, among other things, with the victims of sectarian violence during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. This poem-sequence, set in a pilgrimage site known as St. If you choose to pick up this classic, check out our audio intro and reading guide for Day 3, Story 10. ![]() 'Let’s go to our country estates.'” – Joan Acocella in The New Yorker 'Let’s get out of here,' Pampinea, the eldest, says. ![]() An estimated sixty per cent of the population of Florence and the surrounding countryside died. “Rabelaisian rabble-rousing is founded on the assumption that the humourless are not yet wise - these novels insist you learn to laugh.” – Lucy Ellman in The GuardianĪ young woman who starts taking the trashy adventure/romance novels she reads much too seriously. “Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is like discovering a new letter in the alphabet, or a new note in the musical scale.” – Jane Ciabattari in BBCįrançois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. Jorge Luis Borges, Fictions / Ficciones (1956) Check out The Complete Works of Jane Austen for a listing.Īn interesting look at the social pressures on marriage in mid-twentieth century Senegal. Warning: not a happy ending.Ī modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Kamo no Chomei, Hojoki (An Account of My Hut) (1212)Ī thirteenth-century Japanese mixture of memoir and essay about Chomei’s move toward Buddhism and retirement from the world.Īny other novel by Austen. “No man knows himself less.” – David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions (1782) Three Chinese Poets: Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu (translated by Vikram Seth, 1992)Ī collection of eighth-century Tang poets. What does justice look like for Black people living in post-slavery America? Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015) ![]()
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