Daca si tu te intrebi din cand in cand, dupa ce termini o carte, ”eu ce mai citesc?!”, sigur gasesti in ceea ce urmeaza o carte care ar putea fi urmatoarea de pe noptiera ta pregatita sa fie citita. Azi va fac o noua propunere. Topul a fost publicat de cotidianul britanic The Guardian pe 8 mai 2002 si contine cele mai bune 100 de lucrari de fictiune in ordinea alfabetica dupa autor si a fost realizata (decisa) de 100 de scriitori din 54 de tari:
- Chinua Achebe, O lume se destrama (Things Fall Apart)
- Hans Christian Andersen, Basme si povestiri (Fairy Tales and Stories)
- Jane Austen, Mandrie si prejudecata (Pride and Prejudice)
- Honore de Balzac, Mos Goriot (Old Goriot)
- Samuel Beckett, Trilogia: Molloy, Malone moare si The Unnamable (Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameronul (Decameron)
- Jorge Luis Borges, Fictiuni (Collected Fictions)
- Emily Bronte, La rascruce de vanturi (Wuthering Heights)
- Albert Camus, Strainul (The Stranger)
- Paul Celan, Poeme (Poems)
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Calatorie la capatul noptii (Journey to the End of the Night)
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Povestiri din Canterbury (Canterbury Tales)
- Anton P Cehov, Povesti alese (Selected Stories)
- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
- Dante Alighieri, Divina Comedie (The Divine Comedy)
- Charles Dickens, Marile sperante (Great Expectations)
- Denis Diderot, Jacques fatalistul si mama sa (Jacques the Fatalist and His Master)
- Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Feodor M Dostoievski, Crima si pedeapsa, Idiotul, Demonii si Fratii Karamazov (Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov)
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- Ralph Ellison, Omul invizibil (Invisible Man)
- Euripides, Medea
- William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom; Zgomotul si furia (Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury)
- Gustave Flaubert, Madam Bovary si Educatie sentimentala (Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education)
- Federico Garcia Lorca, Balade tiganesti (Gypsy Ballads)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Un veac de singuratate si Dragoste in vremea holerei (One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera)
- Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
- Nikolai Gogol, Suflete moarte (Dead Souls)
- Gunter Grass, Toba de tinichea (The Tin Drum)
- Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Diavolul pe care trebuie sa-l platesti in lumea de apoi (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands)
- Knut Hamsun, Foamea (Hunger)
- Ernest Hemingway, Batranul si marea (The Old Man and the Sea)
- Homer, Iliada si Odiseea (The Iliad and The Odyssey)
- Henrik Ibsen, Casa papusii (A Doll’s House)
- Israel, Cartea lui Iov (The Book of Job)
- James Joyce, Ulise (Ulysses)
- Franz Kafka, Povestiri/Nuvele, Procesul, Castelul (The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia)
- Kalidasa, Sakuntala (The Recognition of Sakuntala)
- Yasunari Kawabata, Sunetul muntelui (The Sound of the Mountain)
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba grecul (Zorba the Greek)
- DH Lawrence, Fii şi indragostiti (Sons and Lovers)
- Halldor K Laxness, Oameni independenţi (Independent People)
- Giacomo Leopardi, Poeme (Complete Poems)
- Doris Lessing, Jurnalul de aur (The Golden Notebook)
- Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Șosețica
- Lu Xun, Jurnalul unui nebun şi alte povestiri (Diary of a Madman and Other Stories)
- India, Mahabharata
- Naguib Mahfouz, Copiii din Gebelawi (Children of Gebelawi)
- Thomas Mann, Casa Buddenbrook si Muntele vrajit (Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain)
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- Michel de Montaigne, Esee (Essays)
- Elsa Morante, Istorie (History)
- Toni Morrison, Iubit (Beloved)
- Shikibu Murasaki, Povestea lui Genji Genji (The Tale of Genji Genji)
- Robert Musil, Barbatul fara insusiri (The Man Without Qualities)
- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
- Islanda, Njaals Saga
- George Orwell, 1984
- Ovidiu, Metamorfoze (Metamorphoses)
- Fernando Pessoa, Cartea nelinistii (The Book of Disquiet)
- Edgar Allan Poe, Povestiri complete (The Complete Tales)
- Marcel Proust, In cautarea timpului pierdut (Remembrance of Things Past)
- Francois Rabelais, Gargantua si Pantagruel (Gargantua and Pantagruel)
- Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo
- Jalal ad-din Rumi, Mathnawi
- Salman Rushdie, Copiii din miez de noapte (Midnight’s Children)
- Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Livada (The Orchard)
- Tayeb Salih, Anotimpul migratiei catre Nord (Season of Migration to the North)
- Jose Saramago, Orbirea (Blindness)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Regele Lear, Othello (Hamlet; King Lear; Othello)
Sophocles, Oedip rege (Oedipus the King) - Stendhal, Rosu si negru (The Red and the Black)
- Laurence Sterne, Viata si opiniile lui Tristram Shandy (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
- Italo Svevo, Confesiunile lui Zeno (Confessions of Zeno)
- Jonathan Swift, Calatoriile lui Gulliver (Gulliver’s Travels)
- Lev Tolstoi, Razboi si pace, Anna Karenina si Moartea lui Inva Ilici si alte povestiri (War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories)
- India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, 1001 de nopti (Thousand and One Nights)
- Mark Twain, Aventurile lui Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
- Valmiki, Ramayana
- Virgiliu, Eneida (The Aeneid)
- Walt Whitman, Fire de iarba (Leaves of Grass)
- Virginia Woolf, Doamna Dalloway; Farul (Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse)
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoriile lui Hadrian (Memoirs of Hadrian)
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