Japan (novel)
Work: 個人的な体験 A Personal Matter, 万延元年のフットボール The Silent Cry
US (novel)
Work: The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Song of Solomon
Santa Lucia (poetry/drama)
Work: Dream on Monkey Mountain, Omeros,
South Africa (novel/short story)
Work: The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, July’s People
Mexico (poetry/essay)
Work: Piedra de sol, Salamandra, El laberinto de la soledad, Vislumbres de la India
Germany/Romania (novel/poetry) communism under Nicolae Ceaușescu
Work: Nadirs, The Land of Green Plums, The Passport
France/Mauritania (novel/poetry/short story)
Work: Le Procès-Verbal (The Interrogation), Désert (Desert)
Britain (novel/short story)
Work: The Grass Is Singing, Cat Tales (The Old Age of El Magnifico)
Turkey (novel, screenwriting)
Work: The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red,Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind
UK (drama, screenplay)
Work: screenplay: The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981),The Trial (1993), Sleuth (2007). Drama: The Birthday Party, The Homecoming
Fengdu (city of ghosts) 豐都鬼城
Old Dachang
Monasteries at Meteora, Greece
Rabbi Loew and Golem by Mikoláš Aleš, 1899. Via Wikimedia.
Sinai Desert at Taba
Falasha
Ship breaking at Alang, Gujarat, India
“Pakistan’s south central mountains: the Pab, the Kirthar, the Central Brahui range.” p. 113
List of mountain ranges of Pakistan
Henry J. Kaiser (father of modern American shipbuilding)
Vo Nguyen Giap in 1954. Via Wikimedia.
Vo Nguyen Giap (General in the Vietnam People’s Army)
Bosozoku 暴走族 Japanese motorbike subculture
Haya-ji Shinto wind god
The Japanese wind god Fūjin, Sōtatsu, 17th century. Via Wikimedia.
Fujin Shinto wind god
Winston Churchill “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
The Ossuary and Port-Mahon Quarry
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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Nicolas Poussin, The Dance to The Music of Time, 1640. Wallace Collection, London. Via Wikimedia.
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John Martin, The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 1852. Via Wikimedia.
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Joyce in Zurich, c. 1918. Via Wikiemdia.
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
