To read
The Bible
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess
John Milton: Paradise Lost Areopagitica
Shakespeare
Herman Melville: Typee,Omoo,Moby-Dick
William Faulkner
Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work
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Historia universal de la infamia, Ficciones, El Aleph.
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Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The English Teacher. See his works on mythology/religion (Gods, Demons and Others, The Ramayana) see list of works.
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The Comedians, The Heart of the Matter, A Burnt-Out Case, The Quiet American, The End of the Affair, The Ministry of Fear, Our Man in Havana, Monsignor Quixote
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The Salterton Trilogy, The Cornish Trilogy, The “Toronto Trilogy”
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney’s Version, Solomon Gursky Was Here
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Judith Hearne, The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Black Robe
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Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Sword of Honour
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Ulysses, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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The Second Sex, She Came to Stay, The Mandarins
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Threepenny Novel, Drums in the Night, The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre.
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Aké: The Years of Childhood, Death and the King’s Horseman, The Lion and the Jewel
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Les Enfants Terribles, Les Parents Terribles, Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus
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Les Enfants du Paradis, Paroles (wrote scenarios and dialogues for films. See list)
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Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, The Bluest Eye
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Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, Our Ancestors trilogy, Cosmicomics
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Una storia semplice, The Day of the Owl, To Each His Own. See films: Open Doors (1990), Cadaveri Eccellenti (1976) and Il giorno della civetta
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The Moon and the Bonfires, see translated poems.
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L’inserzione, Family sayings (Lessico famigliare), Caro Michele (film Caro Michele, 1976)
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Creator of detective Jules Maigret. Maigret and the Yellow Dog, Dirty Snow, Red Lights
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke,The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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Things Fall Apart,No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, An Image of Africa (lecture on Heart of Darkness)
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Mandelbaum Gate, The Driver’s Seat, Memento Mori
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The Ghost Writer,American Pastoral, Sabbath’s Theater