Le Monde’s 100 Books of the 20th Century (Books, Literature & Reading) Language Learning Forum

Le Monde’s 100 Books of the 20th Century
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4879 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish	Message 1 of 3 07 June 2012 at 3:16am \| IP Logged
	I just found this list from Le Monde of the 100 Books of the Century. There is everything on here: graphic novels, plays, poetry, theory, and novels. It is wonderfully different than most Anglo-centric lists I see. I'll be adding a lot of the French novels and comics to my own Super Challenge list, and I'd love to hear what people's experiences or thoughts are of any of these in their native language! 1. L’'Etranger Albert Camus 2. À la recherché de temps perdu Marcel Proust 3. Der Prozess Franz Kafka 4. Le Petit Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 5. La Condition humaine André Malraux 6. Voyage au bout de la nuit Louis-Ferdinand Céline 7. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 8. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 9. Le Grand Meaulnes Alain-Fournier 10. L’Écume des jours Boris Vian 11. Le Deuxième Sexe Simone de Beauvoir 12. En attendant Godot Samuel Beckett 13. L’Être et le Néant Jean-Paul Sartre 14. Il nome della rosa Umberto Eco 15. Arkhipelag GULAG Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 16. Paroles Jacques Prévert 17. Alcools Guillaume Apollinaire 18. Le Lotus bleu (Les aventures de Tintin) Hergé 19. The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 20. Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss 21. Brave New World Aldous Huxley 22. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell 23. Astérix le Gaulois René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo 24. La Cantatrice chauve Eugène Ionesco 25. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality Sigmund Freud 26. L'oeuvre au noir Marguerite Yourcenar 27. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 28. Ulysses James Joyce 29. Il deserto dei Tartari Dino Buzzati 30. Les Faux-monnayeurs André Gide 31. Le Hussard sur le toit Jean Giono 32. Belle du Seigneur Albert Cohen 33. Cien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez 34. The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 35. Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac 36. Zazie dans le métro Raymond Queneau 37. Verwirrung der Gefühle Stefan Zweig 38. Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 39. Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence 40. Der Zauberberg Thomas Mann 41. Bonjour tristesse Françoise Sagan 42. Le Silence de la mer Vercors 43. La Vie mode d'emploi Georges Perec 44. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle 45. Sous le soleil de Satan Georges Bernanos 46. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 47. Žert Milan Kundera 48. Il disprezzo Alberto Moravia 49. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie 50. Nadja André Breton 51. Aurélien Louis Aragon 52. Le Soulier de satin Paul Claudel 53. Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore Luigi Pirandello 54. Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht 55. Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique Michel Tournier 56. The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 57. Se questo è un uomo Primo Levi 58. The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 59. Les Vrilles de la vigne Colette 60. Capitale de la douleur Paul Éluard 61. Martin Eden Jack London 62. Corto Maltese – Una ballata del mare salato Hugo Pratt 63. Le degré zéro de l'écriture Roland Barthes 64. Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll 65. Le Rivage des Syrtes Julien Gracq 66. Les Mots et les Choses Michel Foucault 67. On the Road Jack Kerouac 68. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige Selma Lagerlöf 69. A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf 70. The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 71. Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein Marguerite Duras 72. Le Procès-verbal J. M. G. Le Clézio 73. Tropismes Nathalie Sarraute 74. Journal, 1887–1910 Jules Renard 75. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 76. Écrits Jacques Lacan 77. Le Théâtre et son double Antonin Artaud 78. Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos 79. Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges 80. Moravagine Blaise Cendrars 81. Le Général de l'armée morte Ismail Kadare 82. Sophie's Choice William Styron 83. Romancero Gitano Federico García Lorca 84. Pietr le Letton Georges Simenon 85. Notre Dame des Fleurs Jean Genet 86. Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Robert Musil 87. Fureur et Mystère René Char 88. The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 89. No Orchids For Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase 90. Blake et Mortimer Edgar P. Jacobs 91. Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke 92. La modification Michel Butor 93. The Burden of Our Time Hannah Arendt 94. Мастер и Маргарита Mikhail Bulgakov 95. The Rosy Crucifixion Henry Miller 96. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 97. Amers Saint-John Perse 98. Gaston André Franquin 99. Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 100. Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie Edited by kanewai on 07 June 2012 at 3:34am 8 persons have voted this message useful
Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5946 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French	Message 2 of 3 07 June 2012 at 6:32am \| IP Logged
	Interesting list! Of note, from the link you provided, it appears the ranking was not necessarily a listing of the "best" works from the last century, but rather a ranking in response to the question " Quels livres sont restés dans votre mémoire? (Which books have stayed in your memory?), which is a more interesting approach than looking for subjective opinions as to which are the "best" works. I am delighted to see Borges Ficciones mentioned (the main reason I would like some day to learn Spanish is to give Borges a try in the original Spanish). I am also thrilled (on the sad occasion of his death) to see that Ray Bradbury made the list - his The Martian Chronicles is the main reason why at one time I wanted to learn one of the aboriginal Martian languages, at least before learning (spoiler alert) that this would no longer be useful. 1 person has voted this message useful
Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4629 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian	Message 3 of 3 07 June 2012 at 10:46am \| IP Logged
	Interesting indeed. As always, such lists are necessarily subjective. It seems that no author is represented with more than one title, so in that sense, it can be seen just as much as a list of the 100 most important writers of the 20th century. In some cases I would have chosen another work of the same author. For example,from the works of Thomas Mann I would rank "Doctor Faustus" above "Der Zauberberg" as a book that has stayed in my memory. Edited by Ogrim on 07 June 2012 at 10:48am 1 person has voted this message useful

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