WLT's 40 Most Important Books, 1927-2001

Given by World Literature Today

40 obres 280,479 Llibres 4,487 Ressenyes ½ 4.0
In celebration of its 75th anniversary, World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma has selected a list of the 40 most important books of the last 75 years. It includes works by writers from mostra'n més 29 countries. mostra'n menys
Years:
Tots, 1987 (1), 1978 (1), 1974 (1), 1972 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1964 (1), 1962 (4), 1961 (2), 1959 (1), 1958 (2), 1957 (1), 1956 (2), 1953 (1), 1952 (4), 1950 (1), 1948 (1), 1945 (1), 1944 (1), 1943 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (1), 1935 (1), 1934 (1), 1933 (1), 1931 (1), 1929 (1), 1928 (2), 1927 (1)
ObraAny
Red Sorghum de Mo Yan
1987
Bells in Winter de Czesław Miłosz
1978
The Conservationist de Nadine Gordimer
1974
Les ciutats invisibles de Italo Calvino
1972
House Made of Dawn de N. Scott Momaday
1968
Cent anys de solitud de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
Collected shorter poems, 1927-1957 de W. H. Auden
1966
Una qüestió personal de Kenzaburō Ōe
1964
El Quadern daurat de Doris Lessing
1962
Foc pàl·lid de Vladimir Nabokov
1962
La plaça del Diamant de Mercè Rodoreda
1962
Un Dia d'Ivan Deníssovitx de Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1962
A House for Mr Biswas de V. S. Naipaul
1961
Llibre del desfici de Fernando Pessoa
1961
El Timbal de llauna de Günter Grass
1959
Tot se'n va en orris de Chinua Achebe
1958
The Guide de R. K. Narayan
1958
Voss de Patrick White
1957
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street de Naguib Mahfouz
1956
Gran Sertão : riberes de João Guimarães Rosa
1956
Los pasos perdidos de Alejo Carpentier
1953
Tot esperant Godot de Samuel Beckett
1952
Invisible Man de Ralph Ellison
1952
El vell i la mar de Ernest Hemingway
1952
In Country Sleep de Dylan Thomas
1952
The Labyrinth of Solitude de Octavio Paz
1950
País de neu de Yasunari Kawabata
1948
Only Yesterday de S. Y. Agnon
1945
Ficciones de Jorge Luis Borges
1944
Quatre quartets de T. S. Eliot
1943
L'estrany de Albert Camus
1942
Mare Coratge i els seus fills de Bertolt Brecht
1941
Requiem de Anna Ahkmatova
1935
Independent People de Halldór Laxness
1934
Residence on Earth de Pablo Neruda
1933
Στροφή de Γιῶργος Σεφέρης
1931
El soroll i la fúria de William Faulkner
1929
Gypsy Ballads de Federico García Lorca
1928
The Tower de W. B. Yeats
1928
Al far de Virginia Woolf
1927

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