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James Augustine[1] Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he perfected.
Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe does not extend far beyond Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there; Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."[2]
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Ulysses is a novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach in February 1922, in Paris. Considered one of the most important works of Modernist literature,[1] it has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement".[2]"Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking."[3]
Ulysses is approximately 265,000 words in length, uses a lexicon of 30,030 words (including proper names, plurals and various verb tenses),[5] and is divided into eighteen episodes. Since publication, the book has attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual "Joyce Wars." Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose—full of puns, parodies, and allusions, as well as its richcharacterisations and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.[6] Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate 16 June as Bloomsday.
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Drawing of Bloom by Joyce
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;[1]:11-12 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole.[note 1] Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English,[2] though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English[note 2] tragic sensibility into English literature.[3]
Conrad spoke both his native Polish language and the French language fluently from childhood and only acquired English in his twenties. Why then did he choose to write his books in, effectively, his third language? "Ah… to write French you have to know it. English is so plastic — if you haven't got a word you need you can make it, but to write French you have to be an artist like Anatole France."[21]
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Heart of Darkness (1899), by Joseph Conrad, is a short novel, presented as aframe narrative, about Charles Marlow’s job as an ivory transporter down theCongo River in Central Africa. This river is described to be “... a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.”
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh top-novel of the hundred-best-novels in English of the twentieth century;[1] and is included to the Western canon.
In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in his 1975 lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", saying the novella de-humanizedAfricans, denied them language and culture and reduced them to a metaphorical extension of the dark and dangerous jungle into which the Europeans venture. Achebe's lecture prompted a lively debate, reactions at the time ranged from dismay and outrage—Achebe recounted a Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts saying to Achebe after the lecture, "How dare you upset everything we have taught, everything we teach? Heart of Darkness is the most widely taught text in the university in this country. So how dare you say it's different?"[27]—to support for Achebe's view—"I now realize that I had never really read Heart of Darkness although I have taught it for years,"[28] one professor told Achebe. Other critiques include Hugh Curtler's Achebe on Conrad: Racism and Greatness in Heart of Darkness (1997).[29]
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. The screenplay by John Milius and Coppola came from Milius's idea of adapting Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness into the Vietnam War era.
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The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy.[1] The Secret Agent is also notable as it is one of Conrad's later political novels, which move away from his typical tales ofseafaring. The novel deals broadly with the notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism.[2] It portrays anarchist or revolutionary groups before many of the social uprisings of the twentieth century. However, it also deals with exploitation, particularly with regard to Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie.
Because of its terrorist theme, The Secret Agent was noted as "one of the three works of literature most cited in the American media" around two weeks after September 11, 2001.[3] The Secret Agent was ranked the 46th best novel of the 20th century by Modern Library.[4]Apocalypse Now - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy.[1] The Secret Agent is also notable as it is one of Conrad's later political novels, which move away from his typical tales ofseafaring. The novel deals broadly with the notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism.[2] It portrays anarchist or revolutionary groups before many of the social uprisings of the twentieth century. However, it also deals with exploitation, particularly with regard to Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr nɐˈbokəf] (
listen); 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899c – 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist.[1] Nabokov's first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.Nabokov's Lolita (1955) is his most famous novel, and often considered his finest work in English. It exhibits the love of intricate word play and synestheticdetail that characterised all his works. The novel was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels;[2]
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Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbɛ/,[1] born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013)[2] was a Nigerian[3] novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opus,[4] Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature.[5] Achebe wrote his novels in English and defended the use of English, a "language of colonisers", in African literature.
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Things Fall Apart is an English-language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe published in 1958. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world. The title of the novel comes from William Butler Yeats' poem"The Second Coming".[1]
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The 100 best books of all time
In 2002, the Norwegian Book Clubs gathered 100 authors from 54 countries and asked each one to list the 10 best works of fiction of all time. The authors responded and this list was created. The titles are arranged alphabetically by author name, so no one book stands above any other. The list-makers did, however, honor a single work – "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes – with the title of "best literary work ever written." The following is the group's definitive list of the world's 100 best books. How many have you read? -
1. 'Things Fall Apart,' by Chinua AchebeIn this 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, wrestler and town leader Okonkwo seems to have an idyllic life – until he loses his temper and causes his family to be thrown out of his village for a period of seven years. While Okonkwo is gone, European missionaries arrive, and the village to which he returns years later seems very different from the one that he remembers.
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In 2002, the Norwegian Book Clubs gathered 100 authors from 54 countries and asked each one to list the 10 best works of fiction of all time. The authors responded and this list was created. The titles are arranged alphabetically by author name, so no one book stands above any other. The list-makers did, however, honor a single work – "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes – with the title of "best literary work ever written." The following is the group's definitive list of the world's 100 best books. How many have you read? -
1. 'Things Fall Apart,' by Chinua AchebeIn this 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, wrestler and town leader Okonkwo seems to have an idyllic life – until he loses his temper and causes his family to be thrown out of his village for a period of seven years. While Okonkwo is gone, European missionaries arrive, and the village to which he returns years later seems very different from the one that he remembers.
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Khalil Gibran (full Arabic name Gibran Khalil Gibran, sometimes spelledKahlil;[a] Arabic: جبران خليل جبران / ALA-LC: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān;) (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American artist,poet, and writer.
Born in the town of Bsharri in the north of modern-day Lebanon (then part ofOttoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he immigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.[6]
He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again especially in the 1960s counterculture.[6][7] Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.[7]
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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran.[1] It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over forty different languages[2] and has never been out of print.[3]Research on sales figures is difficult to come by, but Khalil Gibran is a very widely read poet in modern history, having been translated into well over 40 languages.[4] The Prophet is in its 163rd printing and has sold over 100 million copies[citation needed] since its original publication in 1923.[4] The Prophet is consistently in the best selling category (overall) at Amazon.[5] The Prophet is one of the best-selling books of all time.The Prophet (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khaled Hosseini (Persian: خالد حسینی [ˈxɒled hoˈsejni]; /ˈhɑːlɛd hoʊˈseɪni/;[1] born March 4, 1965), is an Afghan-born American novelist and physician.[2][3] He is a citizen of the United States where he has lived since he was fifteen years old. His 2003 debut novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, with the paperback spending 101 weeks on the bestseller list (#1 for 4 of those weeks).[4]
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Téa Obreht (born Tea Bajraktarević on 30 September 1985) is a Serbian-born Bosniak/Slovene American novelist.[1] Her debut novel, The Tiger's Wife (2011), won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction.[2]#
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The poet Charles Simic, wrote in The New York Review of Books giving his endorsement to the view that "this is a remarkable first novel." He went on to say: "Téa Obreht is an extraordinarily talented writer, skilled at combining different types of narrative — from objective depiction of events to stories mixing the fabulous and the real — in a way that brings to mind the novels of Mikhail Bulgakov, Gabriel García Márquez, and Milorad Pavić, the Serbian author of Dictionary of the Khazars.[4]
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Chinese literature extends thousands of years...
China's state-run General Administration of Press and Publication (新闻出版总署) screens all Chinese literature intended to be sold on the open market. The Chinese government continues to hold public book burnings[36] on unapproved yet popular "spiritual pollution" literature, though critics claim this spotlight on individual titles only helps fuel booksales.[37] Many new-generation Chinese authors who were the recipients of such government attention have been re-published in English and success in the western literary markets, namely Zhou Weihui's Shanghai Baby, Anchee Min's controversial memoir Red Azalea, Time Magazine banned-book covergirl Chun Sue's Beijing Doll, and Mian Mian's Candy. Online bestseller Ghost Blows Out the Light had to be rewritten to remove references to the supernatural before it could be released in print.[38]
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Jīn Xuěfēi (simplified Chinese: 金雪飞; traditional Chinese: 金雪飛; born February 21, 1956) is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.
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>> Can anyone recommend me any Chinese authors who write fiction in English? It seems that the most famous are Amy Tan and Ha Jin. I want to know if there are other good writers. I remember seeing a book by Liu Hong. Has anyone read her books?
>> Here are some that I've enjoyed reading. David Wong Louie and Samantha Chang are both Chinese-Americans, I believe. Ying Chen is a emigree from mainland China to Canada, and she writes in French. http://www.amazon.co...g Louie&x=0&y=0
Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie http://www.amazon.co...n chang&x=0&y=0
>> Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Samantha Lan Chang
Xiaolu Guo has written a book in English (Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers), as has Geling Yan (The Uninvited/Banquet Bug (Same book-different titles)).
Yiyun Li's first collection of short stories (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers) was written in English and she is writing her first full length novel in English which is due to be published this summer. All are worth reading.
I read one book by Liu Hong but didn't like it too much.
There's also Anchee Min.
>> There's a Li Yunyi short story on the New Yorker's site currently - I really enjoyed it, am about to see what else of her work I can find . . .
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Yiyun Li (李翊雲) (born 1972) is a Chinese American writer. Her debut short story collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers won the 2005 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and her second collection Gold Boy, Emerald Girl was shortlisted for the same award.
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Yiyun Li - A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Description
Brilliant and original, ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’ introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.
In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In 'Immortality', winner of the Paris Review prize, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In 'Extra', first published in the New Yorker, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy who has become an outcast in a remote country school. In their friendship, we see how love can begin to overcome the strictures that dominate their lives.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Amazon.co.uk: Yiyun Li: BooksModern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels [1] of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House.
Criticism of the Modern Library list includes that it did not include enough novels by women (and that only one woman was on the panel) and not enough novels from outside North America and Europe.
Editors' list (20th Century Great Novels)
| # | Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1922 | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| 2 | 1925 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 3 | 1916 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| 4 | 1955 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 5 | 1932 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 6 | 1929 | The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| 7 | 1961 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| 8 | 1940 | Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler |
| 9 | 1913 | Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence |
| 10 | 1939 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
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THE READERS' LIST
- ATLAS SHRUGGEDby Ayn Rand
- THE FOUNTAINHEADby Ayn Rand
- BATTLEFIELD EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
- THE LORD OF THE RINGSby J.R.R. Tolkien
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDby Harper Lee
- 1984by George Orwell
- ANTHEMby Ayn Rand
- WE THE LIVINGby Ayn Rand
- MISSION EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
- FEARby L. Ron Hubbard
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