Time Magazine's Top Ten Literary Works Of All Time

[Les Enragés]

And I only read 4 1/2 of them. I got a lot of work to do.

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

10. Middlemarch by George Eliot


http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html

[UndergroundConnexion]

this is a very debatable list, i think a top 100 list would be more efficient. You cannot put 0ver 3000 years of litterature, in a list of 10

[Hate Is Art]

True, they are quite 'canonical' classics as well, not really very controversial. Nothing modernist/post modernist either. It's also very American, and Catcher In The Rye isn't in it either, which is odd.

[Les Enragés]

Originally posted by Hate Is [email protected] 10, 2007 07:48 pm
True, they are quite 'canonical' classics as well, not really very controversial. Nothing modernist/post modernist either. It's also very American, and Catcher In The Rye isn't in it either, which is odd.
Please, (sigh) Catcher in the Rye can not possibly compare with any of the works cited in that list.

[SPK]

Yes, three thousands years of world literature has been reduced to... ten works, all but one of which were written -- in English, French, and Russian -- in the past two centuries. <_<

[UndergroundConnexion]

there you go, i mean books like Homerus would certainly hold a place. I think we should make top tens (if we want 2 make top tens) , in blocks of 50 years..
For the last 50 years I&#39;d propose :

Harry Mullisch - The Assault
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in his Labyrinth or 100 yrs..
Jean-Paul Sartre - Any of his major works
Alex Haily - Malcom X Autobiography or Roots
Jostein Gaarner - Sophies World

..

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Hamlet is worthless as a piece of literature, IMO. Other than drama students and actors, who the fuck reads scripts?

[coda]

There are tons of top 100 lists

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html#indexes

http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/100best.html

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the...plete_list.html (http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html)


That particular TIME article says that list is the top 10 most chosen of 125 people&#39;s (writer&#39;s?) Best Of lists.


My own literature list based on my own intents and purposes would look something like this. Any and all writings by Flannery O&#39;Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jack London, John Steinbeck. Those are the big ones for me.

Tolstoy, Dickens, Guy de Maupassant and Twain could spin a good tale. And I have to admit I do like some of Fitzgerald&#39;s flapper stories like Tales of the Jazz Age. However bourgeoise, still completely capture that era-- a huge breakout for women-- like noone else has.

[chimx]

Any list that doesn&#39;t include Dostoevsky I am at odds with.

[coda]

I agree Chimx&#33;&#33;&#33;

That he doesn&#39;t rank in any top ten list is quite baffling. But, to each their own preference. He does come in at top 20 on a few lists.

I am right now reading "The Idiot." Brilliant and very insightful.

[coda]

<< Catcher In The Rye isn&#39;t in it either, which is odd>>>

Hate is Art, Catcher in the Rye is on TIMES All -Time 100 Novels List.

http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the...plete_list.html (http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html)


Here is the original TIME review of the book from 1951:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...ternalid=atb100 (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,889141,00.html?internalid=atb100)

[Hate Is Art]

Originally posted by Dr. [email protected] 10, 2007 11:34 pm
Hamlet is worthless as a piece of literature, IMO. Other than drama students and actors, who the fuck reads scripts?
Oh my, Hamlet is a fucking masterpiece of literature. I refuse to have anything bad said against it, any criticism of it is completly unfounded.

It&#39;s not a &#39;script&#39; its a playtext, and only one half of the actual work of art, the power in Hamlet comes through the acting and direction as well, not just some of the most amazing and beautiful and powerful lines ever written in the English language.

[UndergroundConnexion]

nothing wrong with reading scripts, as I read with great pleasures plays by Sartre , or even movie scenarios, such as the one of La Haine.

Yet personally, although udboubtly Hamlet has it&#39;s qualities, I found it shit to read.

[Hate Is Art]

Phillisteine.

[Tekun]

I remember reading somewhere that Malcolm X&#39;s Auto. was up there, where the hell is it?
I like Hamlet, but I prefer Macbeth or Othello as my fav
Marquez&#39;s 100yrs also deserves to be up there
Same goes for DuBois&#39; Souls of Black Folk

Other than that, I don&#39;t read much fiction

[1984]

Wasn&#39;t Don Quixote nominated the most important literacy work of all time many, many times by many, many critics...?

:rolleyes:

Why did they missed it this time...?

[The Anarchist Prince]

If you like Hamlet, read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. One of my fave books/plays ever.


PS: Needs more Hard Times.

[Les Enragés]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11, 2007 12:01 am
Any list that doesn&#39;t include Dostoevsky I am at odds with.
F. Dostoevsky was a bastard. He wrote the novel The Possessed which is about the "evils" of revolutionaries--- communists, socialists and anarchists. Has anyone read this novel? Dostoevsky based his novel on the so-called Nechayev affair. Dostoevsky supported the tsar and the Eastern Orthodox church--- yes very enlightened writer (sarcasm intended).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_%28novel%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nechaev

Hamlet is probably one of the greatest works of all time&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCBVmiVkzTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM75cYXuiWY...related&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM75cYXuiWY&mode=related&search=)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADcMbQgCAhY

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3...old+bloom&hl=en (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3614849423230018899&q=harold+bloom&hl=en)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3...old+bloom&hl=en (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3586098824214298816&q=harold+bloom&hl=en)

[Political_Chucky]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11, 2007 09:10 pm
Wasn&#39;t Don Quixote nominated the most important literacy work of all time many, many times by many, many critics...?

:rolleyes:

Why did they missed it this time...?
I&#39;m only half way through, but its such a great book. When I have the time, I am reading it. The list is shit however. There are greater masterpieces then the majority on the list.