Around the world in 80 books
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xix, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize-winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle -- from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways"--
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Damrosch, D. (2021). Around the world in 80 books. [New York], Penguin Press.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: the voyage out -- Chapter 1. London: inventing a city: Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf ; Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; The complete Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle ; Something fresh / P. G. Wodehouse ; Riceyman steps / Arnold Bennett -- Chapter 2. Paris: writers' paradise: In search of lost time / Marcel Proust ; Nightwood / Djuna Barnes ; The lover / Marguerite Duras ; The end of the game / Julio Cortázar ; W, or the memory of childhood / Georges Perec -- Chapter 3. Kraków: After Auschwitz: The periodic table / Primo Levi ; The metamorphosis and other stories / Franz Kafka ; Poems / Paul Celan ; Selected and last poems, 1931-2004 / Czesław Miłosz ; Flights / OLga Tokarczuk -- Chapter 4. Venice-Florence: invisible cities: The travels / Marco Polo ; The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri ; The decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio ; By its cover / Donna Leon ; Invisible cities / Italo Calvino -- Chapter 5. Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat: stories within stories: Love songs of ancient Egypt ; The thousand and one nights ; Arabian nights and days / Naguib Mahfouz ; My name is red / Orhan Pamuk ; Celestial bodies / Jokha Alharthi -- Chapter 6. The Congo-Nigeria: (post) colonial encounters: Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad ; Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe ; Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka ; Giambatista Viko, or the rape of African discourse / Georges Ngal ; The thing around your neck / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Chapter 7. Israel / Palestine: strangers in a strange land: The Hebrew Bible ; The New Testment ; The missing file / D. A. Mishani ; The secret life of Saeed the Pessoptimist / Mahmoud Darwish -- Chapter 8. Persepolis / Tehran-Satrapi ; The conference of the birds / Farid ud-Din Attar ; Faces of love: Hafez and the poets of Shiraz ; A desertful of roses / Ghalib ; Call me Ishmael tonight / Agha Shahid Ali -- Chapter 9. Kim / Rudyard Kipling ; The home and the world / Rabindranath Tagore ; East, West / Salmon Rushdie ; The mandala of Sherlock Holmes / Jamyang Norbu ; Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Chapter 10. Shanghai-Beijing: journeys to the west: Journey to the West / Wu Cheng'en ; The real story of Ah-Q and other stories / Lu Xun ; Love in a fallen city / Eileen Chang ; Life and death are wearing me out / Mo Yan ; The rose of time / Bei Dao -- Chapter 11. Toyko-Kyoto: the West of the East: In the shade of spring leaves / Higuchi Ichiyō ; The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu ; The narrow road to the deep North / Matsuo Bashō ; The sea of fertility / Yukio Mishima ; "Prose of departure" / James Merrill -- Chapter 12. Brazil-Colombia: utopias, dystopias, heterotopias: Utopia / Thomas More ; Candide, or optimism / Voltaire ; Posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ; Family ties / Clarice Lispector ; One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez -- Chapter 13. Mexico-Guatemala: The pope's blowgun: Cantares Mexicanos: songs of the Aztecs ; Popol Vuh: The Mayan book of the dawn of life ; Selected works / Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz ; The president / Miguel Ángel Asturias ; The book of lamentations / Rosario Castellanos -- Chapter 14. The Antilles and beyond: fragments of epic memory: Omeros / Derek Walcott ; Ulysses / James Joyce ; Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; The Penelopiad / Margaret Atwood ; Atlas of remote islands / Judith Schalansky -- Chapter 15. Bar Harbor: the world on a desert island: One morning in Maine / Robert McCloskey ; The country of the pointed firs / Sarah Orne Jewett ; Memoirs of Hadrian / Marguerite Yourcenar ; The voyages of Doctor Dolittle / Hugh Lofting ; Stuart Little / E. B. White -- Chapter 16. New York: Migrant metropolis: A wrinkle in time / Madeleine E'Engle ; The labyrinth / Saul Steinberg ; Notes of a native son / James Baldwin ; Henderson the Rain King / Saul Bellow ; The Lord of the Rings / J. R. R. Tolkien -- Epilogue: The eighty-first book. | |
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ISBN:
9780593299883, 0593299884
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Description
"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize-winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle -- from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways"--,Provided by publisher.
