Grandma had these white books, one for each decade, that collected short works or excerpts from the Nobel prize of Lit. winners... Dad got them when she died, and I got through many in my early twenties, before mom got sick of them taking up so much shelf space and packed them up in a box under the stairs.
Without that cheat, my list would be much shorter
Tomas Tranströmer
Discounting the few poems in newspapers this week, nothing.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Hard to avoid for francophones...
Doris Lessing
Le Carnet d'or, maybe one or two others - all in translation as it's Mom's stuff, really.
Günter Grass
The Danzig trilogy, and one novel with a fish name in the title.
José Saramago
Perused through Mom's copy of his "Gospel".
Dario Fo
Saw at least Mort Accidentelle d'un Anarchiste on stage.
Kenzaburo Oe
A few novels (I know only their French titles), and maybe 3-4 short story collections.
Claude Simon
La route des Flandres.
William Golding
King of the Flies, and only in translation.
Gabriel García Márquez
Two and a half novel (never finished "the general..."
Saul Bellow
I've started a novel that I never finished (too boring) and don't remember much except it was about two writers.
Pablo Neruda
A few poems in school.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
L'archipel du goulag.
Samuel Beckett
I've seen his plays more than I've read them, with a few exceptions like Waiting for Godot. I've read a novel he wrote in French (it's one long sentence without any punctuation, not one of his most accessible works...)
Yasunari Kawabata
Several novels I don't know the English titles of. Les Belles Endormies, Kyoto, La danseuse d'Izu, Chronique d'Asukaga etc. He's one of the most read Japanese writers by francophones.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Most of his fiction, not so much of his philosophy.
John Steinbeck
Had to suffer through a few in English classes, and to watch productions too.
Saint-John Perse
A few of his poems in French classes.
Boris Pasternak
Docteur Jivago. If anything else, it would be non fiction, but I think I have him mixed up with another Russian novelist who wrote biographies/history books.
Albert Camus
L'Étranger, La Chute, Le Mythe de Sysiphe, Les Justes. Maybe others, but I've read him mostly between 16 and 25 with borrowed books, so I don't remember.
I've seen at least three plays on stage.
Ernest Hemingway
Alas we had to study The Old Man and the Sea in English classes. Yuk.
Winston Churchill
Parts of war memoirs, before I got bored.
François Mauriac
Le Cahier Noir, a few others Dad had from his school years. Didm't really liked him or cared much for his christian themes.
William Faulkner
Several short stories in school, none of his novels.
T.S. Eliot
Part of The Waste Land.
André Gide
Les nourritures terrestres, Prométhé mal enchainé, Les Faux-Monnayeurs are the ones I remember reading. It's from those years I was mostly borrowing's friends' books, so I'm not sure about others.
Hermann Hesse
Just Le Loup des Steppes.
Pearl Buck
Only Le Pavillon des femmes, in translation
Roger Martin du Gard
Mom had Les Thibault, but I don't remember reading them.
Eugene O'Neill
Only saw one stage production
Luigi Pirandello
Six personnages en quête d'auteur, but only seen on stage.
Thomas Mann
La Montagne magique, Mort à Venise, but I think I saw more movies based on his works.
Henri Bergson
Just excerpts in philosophy classes.
George Bernard Shaw
Never read, saw one of his plays.
William Butler Yeats
Some poems, some writings on Irish mythology.
Anatole France
Les Dieux ont soif. Read a few of his contes (tales) in school.
Romain Rolland
Only excepts in French literature classes.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Didn't ring a bell, but I found out I've actually seen a famous Debussy opera he wrote.
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle book, and novellas in school.
Frédéric Mistral
Nope. He's the one French writer on the list I had to look up first, and it's still a big nope. Never even heard the name.
Sully Prudhomme
Some poems in school. Tedious.
Without that cheat, my list would be much shorter
Tomas Tranströmer
Discounting the few poems in newspapers this week, nothing.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Hard to avoid for francophones...
Doris Lessing
Le Carnet d'or, maybe one or two others - all in translation as it's Mom's stuff, really.
Günter Grass
The Danzig trilogy, and one novel with a fish name in the title.
José Saramago
Perused through Mom's copy of his "Gospel".
Dario Fo
Saw at least Mort Accidentelle d'un Anarchiste on stage.
Kenzaburo Oe
A few novels (I know only their French titles), and maybe 3-4 short story collections.
Claude Simon
La route des Flandres.
William Golding
King of the Flies, and only in translation.
Gabriel García Márquez
Two and a half novel (never finished "the general..."
Saul Bellow
I've started a novel that I never finished (too boring) and don't remember much except it was about two writers.
Pablo Neruda
A few poems in school.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
L'archipel du goulag.
Samuel Beckett
I've seen his plays more than I've read them, with a few exceptions like Waiting for Godot. I've read a novel he wrote in French (it's one long sentence without any punctuation, not one of his most accessible works...)
Yasunari Kawabata
Several novels I don't know the English titles of. Les Belles Endormies, Kyoto, La danseuse d'Izu, Chronique d'Asukaga etc. He's one of the most read Japanese writers by francophones.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Most of his fiction, not so much of his philosophy.
John Steinbeck
Had to suffer through a few in English classes, and to watch productions too.
Saint-John Perse
A few of his poems in French classes.
Boris Pasternak
Docteur Jivago. If anything else, it would be non fiction, but I think I have him mixed up with another Russian novelist who wrote biographies/history books.
Albert Camus
L'Étranger, La Chute, Le Mythe de Sysiphe, Les Justes. Maybe others, but I've read him mostly between 16 and 25 with borrowed books, so I don't remember.
I've seen at least three plays on stage.
Ernest Hemingway
Alas we had to study The Old Man and the Sea in English classes. Yuk.
Winston Churchill
Parts of war memoirs, before I got bored.
François Mauriac
Le Cahier Noir, a few others Dad had from his school years. Didm't really liked him or cared much for his christian themes.
William Faulkner
Several short stories in school, none of his novels.
T.S. Eliot
Part of The Waste Land.
André Gide
Les nourritures terrestres, Prométhé mal enchainé, Les Faux-Monnayeurs are the ones I remember reading. It's from those years I was mostly borrowing's friends' books, so I'm not sure about others.
Hermann Hesse
Just Le Loup des Steppes.
Pearl Buck
Only Le Pavillon des femmes, in translation
Roger Martin du Gard
Mom had Les Thibault, but I don't remember reading them.
Eugene O'Neill
Only saw one stage production
Luigi Pirandello
Six personnages en quête d'auteur, but only seen on stage.
Thomas Mann
La Montagne magique, Mort à Venise, but I think I saw more movies based on his works.
Henri Bergson
Just excerpts in philosophy classes.
George Bernard Shaw
Never read, saw one of his plays.
William Butler Yeats
Some poems, some writings on Irish mythology.
Anatole France
Les Dieux ont soif. Read a few of his contes (tales) in school.
Romain Rolland
Only excepts in French literature classes.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Didn't ring a bell, but I found out I've actually seen a famous Debussy opera he wrote.
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle book, and novellas in school.
Frédéric Mistral
Nope. He's the one French writer on the list I had to look up first, and it's still a big nope. Never even heard the name.
Sully Prudhomme
Some poems in school. Tedious.
So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
26/09/2009 08:17:06 PM
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Myself, so far...
26/09/2009 08:22:52 PM
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Wow
26/09/2009 08:52:10 PM
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Oh.
26/09/2009 09:01:31 PM
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Yes, even people with virtually no education have usually heard of Churchill and/or Kipling. *NM*
26/09/2009 09:37:59 PM
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I've read 36 of those
26/09/2009 09:04:18 PM
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Okay, I've read a few of these people. (EDITED to specify what works)
26/09/2009 09:36:31 PM
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Gee, I wonder what the theme is...
26/09/2009 09:37:38 PM
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It's not so hard to figure that out...
26/09/2009 09:44:55 PM
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Why is that? Because the prize is utterly meaningless?
26/09/2009 09:58:39 PM
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Of course it is meaningless, all prizes are.
26/09/2009 10:08:36 PM
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Oh...but those are the "Some People" that I look down my elitist nose at.
26/09/2009 10:18:01 PM
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Let's see.
26/09/2009 09:58:12 PM
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Of all the Russian authors to receive the prize, Solzhenitsyn is the worst stylistically
26/09/2009 10:03:11 PM
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I've been meaning to read Pasternak for such a long time.
26/09/2009 10:06:28 PM
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Don't put it on a list at amazon. Put it in the cart, then click on "purchase".
26/09/2009 10:23:33 PM
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I don't buy books online myself. If I did people would never know what to get me.
26/09/2009 10:26:01 PM
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See, I can't remember if I read Pasternak...
26/09/2009 10:11:14 PM
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It's one of my favorite books of all time.
26/09/2009 10:21:37 PM
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There's an ITV film of the book with Keira Knightley. It looks utterly appalling. *NM*
26/09/2009 10:25:12 PM
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For what it's worth, the recent Russian miniseries wasn't fantastic.
27/09/2009 03:02:25 AM
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Only 10 of them.
26/09/2009 11:53:47 PM
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From my list, Hesse's Siddhartha is my foremost recommendation. *NM*
26/09/2009 11:55:03 PM
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Only these ones have I already read, but I'll try the challenge. Could take me a while, atm.
27/09/2009 02:48:10 AM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
28/09/2009 09:55:36 AM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
28/09/2009 06:15:01 PM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
28/09/2009 06:51:05 PM
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Re: So, I have a list of authors here. It's a bit like Pokémon... Gotta catch them all.
29/09/2009 02:20:37 PM
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I worked out that the best way to make use of this thread is to remove the names I have read...
02/10/2009 08:43:57 PM
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A great deal of those... after a fashion
08/10/2011 06:30:00 PM
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