#balzac/hugo related

[persephonediary]

What are your favorite books and movies? <3

OMG my 1st Ask, thank you Anon, it made my day 🥹💗

So… I’ll try to make it as short as possible (I’m very talkative sorry 🥲)

Favourite Films:

•Dead Poets Society • A Royal Affair

•Phantom of the Opera • Atonement

• The Wind That Shakes The Barley

• Anna Karenina( The BBC was the best but loved the film with Keira Knightley too 💕)

•The Schindler’s List •The Edge of Love

•Lost In Translation • Marie Antoinette

•La Piscine • Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg 💗

I love french cinema, la Nouvelle Vague 🤌 Period Dramas, Historical Romance 💕

Favourite Books :

•Dracula, Bram Stoker 💗

•Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 💗

•Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

•The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde (love of my life)💗

•The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

•Candide, Voltaire •Le Père Goriot, Balzac

• The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller

•If We Were Villains, M.L Rio

•The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald

• Faust, J.W. von Goethe (also the love of my life 💗)

• Anything & everything written by Jane Austen & Charles Dickens

•Perpetually obsessing over the diaries of Franz Kafka & of Sylvia Plath 💗😭

•Baudelaire, Verlaine, Victor Hugo 💗

•The Women Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir (all of her work is a brilliant)

• I Love Love Love love letters:

-Nabokov’s letters to Véra

-Vita Sackville West & Virginia Woolf’s love letters

-Lettre à Anne, François Mitterrand (if you can get pass the cheating bit haha their incredibly beautiful 🥹)

Same themes when it comes to books, my heart belongs to classic literature (Russian, French, German, English, Irish being my favourites), I also love mythology and philosophy. Anything romantic really haha, angst, drama, passion I love it all 💗

I tried to make it as short as possible, but I’m always open to literature and film related asks or DMs. I breathe and live for art, literature and cinema (thus this wee bit dramatic statement haha)

#about me #personal #anon ask #send anons #asks and replies #asks open

[parisaimelart]

Jusqu’au 5 mars 2023, l’exposition « Louis Boulanger, peintre rêveur » est l’occasion de découvrir un peintre romantique méconnu et de flâner dans la charmante maison de Victor Hugo place des Vosges. L’artiste est un intime de l’auteur des Misérables. Ce dernier l’appelle affectueusement « mon peintre ». Il est vrai qu’il fut le portraitiste attitré de la famille Hugo. Ses tableaux du poète et de sa femme Adèle traduisent magistralement la psychologie et le monde intérieur des modèles. La relation avec Hugo a souvent éclipsé l’étendue de l’oeuvre de Louis Boulanger. L’exposition rétablit cette injustice. Fidèle du salon d’Eugène Devéria, le peintre veut renouveler les arts de l’époque. Moins célèbre que Delacroix, il est à la source d’un romantisme plus radical, bouleversant le genre historique et proposant des oeuvres fantastiques et macabres. On pense à la puissante lithographie « le dernier jour d’un condamné » détenue par le musée du barreau de Paris. La rétrospective présente aussi des illustrations des oeuvres de Hugo, Dumas et de Balzac ainsi que d’admirables dessins de costumes de théâtre. Le romantisme, rébellion contre l’ordre classique et académique, n’a jamais été aussi nécessaire. Vous appréciez mes idées de sorties culturelles ? Choisissez votre prochaine exposition en vous abonnant à mon compte Instagram paris_aimelart @maisonsdevictorhugo @paris_aimelart @paris @timeoutparis @quefaireaparis @paris.explore @paris_art_com @artaparis @paris_culture @expositionparis.info @paris_love_street @parismusees #maisondevictorhugo #louisboulangerpeintrerêveur #romantisme #parisaimelart #paris_aimelart #parisexpos #parisexposition #exposparis #paris #exposition #parismusees #parisculturel #quefaireaparis #artparis #parisart #parisjetaime #parislife #parissecret #parisianlife (à Maison de Victor Hugo, Place des Vosges) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfBhO_rF2_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#maisondevictorhugo #louisboulangerpeintrerêveur #romantisme #parisaimelart #paris_aimelart #parisexpos #parisexposition #exposparis #paris #exposition #parismusees #parisculturel #quefaireaparis #artparis #parisart #parisjetaime #parislife #parissecret #parisianlife

[pompadourpink]

Hi! I’m so sorry it’s not a question directly related to French language. I’m going to change my surname this summer, and I want it to be something meaningful (I haven’t found a one yet) because I don’t want to be attached to my abusive father anymore. So, I was wondering if you (and your followers) could give me some recommendations? Thank you from the bottom of my heart! It means a lot to me.

Hello, I'm sure we can find something! Could you maybe send another question and add a few interests of yours? It will make it a lot easier to pick.

If you are into literature and a fan of a specific century, you can check out French Wikipedia and pick an author's name, or look up our architects, actors/actresses or directors from the early years of cinema, opera singers, composers, painters, fashion designers, historical figures, fictional characters, etc.

A few names I find super cool just based on how they sound: Debussy, Méliès, D'Orléans, Chateaubriand, Saint-Vincent, Yourcenar, Renoir, De Scudéry, Beaumarchais, Lautréamont, De Staël, Sévigné, De la Rochefoucault, Fontaine, Lumière, De Navarre, D'Aquitaine, Delacroix, Aragon, Géricault, Balzac.

Another few based on meaning: Lescaut (from Manon Lescaut, my favourite love story), Delcourt (from Nadja - André Breton, a foggy, surrealist love story), Dulac (after Germaine Dulac, one of the first female directors), Valmont (Malkovich's character in Dangerous Liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos, very deep character), De Bazan (after my favourite character in my favourite play, Ruy Blas - Victor Hugo), Villeneuve (the real name of Chris Marker, my favourite director).

But those are personal preferences, you'll have to see for yourself!

Love,

Mum

#ask #malks

[histoireettralala]

"Retour d'Egypte"

In this last year of the eighteenth century, the Parisian public rushed to grant Egypt the favors of fashion, when cabinetmakers, goldsmiths, painters and sculptors invented the "Retour d'Egypte" style (admittedly already in use in Rome by Piranesi in 1769 and in Paris by Séné in 1780), which was all the rage at the time: bronze figures wearing klaft supporting tables, consoles or pedestal tables, precious armchairs adorned with armrests in the shape of a sphinx, palm-shaped marquees, clocks influenced by Coptic art entered in force in the salons of the Faubourg Saint-Germain [..]

Bonaparte's own stepson, the future Prince Eugene, former member of the expedition, had his Parisian hotel in the rue de Lille overhauled [..] where the architect Bataille fits out an Egyptian-style portico and furnishes the apartments with an oriental boudoir decorated with a frieze representing a slave market and a harem. The rue de Sèvres is equipped with the famous Fellah fountain to distribute the waters of Gros-Caillou to the district. The English are not left out with the prestigious neo-Egyptian decorations created by Thomas Hoper in his London hotel on Duchess-Street or by Walsh Porter in his cottage in Craven. As for the pyramids, one now sees them in all the gardens (such as in Parc Monceau), but even more in the cemeteries, in Père-Lachaise mainly, under which several members of the expedition will be buried, the surgeon Dominique Larrey in particular. [..]

[Léon Cogniet (1794-1880)- L'expédition d'Egypte sous les ordres de Bonaparte.]

Even today, several streets in Paris evoke the expedition, such as the streets of Aboukir, Cairo or Heliopolis. And throughout the 19th century, the memory of the expedition made it possible to establish between France and Egypt privileged relations which reached their peak under the reign of Charles X [..] The expedition, again, provided painters the revelation of azure skies and golden light which, with Gros, Lancret, Chabrol, Lejeune, and later Delacroix, gave birth to the orientalist current expressed throughout the 19th century until the Third Republic. Egypt, of course, also inspired writers and travelers of the romantic era, such as Alexandre Dumas with his Voyage au Sinaï, Théophile Gautier with the Roman de la momie, Alfred de Vigny with the Plainte du Capitaine, but also Chateaubriand, Balzac, Flaubert, Nerval and Hugo, all fascinated by this real or imagined country.

Gonzague Saint-Bris- Desaix, le sultan de Bonaparte

#napoleonic #gonzague saint bris #desaix le sultan de bonaparte #retour d'égypte #arts and crafts #campaign of egypt

[lagren0uille]

2, 8, 11, 13, 23.

Thank you <3

2- What’s the worst book you’ve ever read, and why?

This question is hard bc there are obviously two ways of understanding that “worst”. From a purely objective point of view, I guess the “worst” novel I’ve ever read was that one fantasy book whose name eludes me, and which I tore and jumped upon in a fit of rage the first time I read as a teen.

From a very subjective POV, one of the most displeasing reading experience I ever had was probably Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. It’s surprising, bc I usually don’t have issue with edgy / cynical narrative point of views / voices, but I guess this one just displayed that one kind of misogyny which I cannot bear (the one which is deeply rooted in misanthropy). It’s very subjective opinion, however - and I guess there would be ppl to say that this novel is actually quite interesting.

8- The book you read when you’re stuck in bed sick

Either Tolkien’s The Simarillion or The Lord of the Rings, or perhaps a realist French novel from the XIX century - something familiar and not too demanding from a narrative point of view. Perhaps Balzac? Or Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris if I’m especially self-indulgent.

13 - The fictional character you want to believe you resemble and the fictional character you actually resemble

I think the reason why Dostoevsky resonates so much with me is bc his anthropology/vision of life is basically mine too. So I’d answer to both parts of this question with one of his characters.

I wouldn’t say I believe myself to be like Alyosha, bc that would be a lie (he is the one I somehow aspire to emulate), but I think I’d like to believe that I’m a bit like Ivan Karamazov. I admire his ability to look unflichingly at the ugliness of the world, the deep anger which stirs him in front of injustice and evil, and his tormented relationship with God is the most “relatable” (lol) “character trait” I’ve ever encountered.

Truth be told, however, I know I’m far too cowardly irl to ever be like him, and lack his self control. I think I especially ressemble the dostoevskyan buffons, who keep humilating themselves in situation of conflict out of fear and weird masochism. So somehow I think I’m a mixture of Dmitri Karamazov (for the restlessness, the lack of self control, the weird self destructive impulses) and... the man of the underground, unfortunately.

#mine #ask meme #frederick-the-great

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Apropos of nothing, I once again encourage everyone to read Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-century France by Brian Martin. 

Description: 

Following the French Revolution, radical military reforms created conditions for new physical and emotional intimacy between soldiers, establishing a model of fraternal affection that would persist from the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars through the Franco-Prussian War and World War I. 

Based on extensive research in French and American archives, and enriched by his reading of Napoleonic military memoirs and French military fiction from Hugo and Balzac to Zola and Proust, Brian Joseph Martin's view encompasses a broad range of emotional and erotic relationships in French armies from 1789 to 1916. 

He argues that the French Revolution's emphasis on military fraternity evolved into an unprecedented sense of camaraderie among soldiers in the armies of Napoleon. For many soldiers, the hardships of combat led to intimate friendships. For some, the homosociality of military life inspired mutual affection, lifelong commitment, and homoerotic desire.

Excerpt: 

Following Lannes’s agonizing death on May 31, 1809, Napoleon retreated to his tent where his valet Louis Constant later found the Emperor “seated, immobile, mute, and staring into space, in front of his hastily prepared meal. Napoleon’s eyes were inundated with tears; they multiplied and fell silently into the soup.”

[…]

Napoleon’s grief for Marshal Lannes took on the very public character of open lamentation. Rather than grieve behind closed doors and conceal his personal vulnerabilities in order to show public strength, Napoleon’s mourning for his beloved friend became a matter of great public spectacle. Like Achilles mourning his beloved Patroclus, Napoleon wept publicly and openly expressed his affection in a way that was widely reported, discussed, and admired by the officers and soldiers in his armies.

[…]

Napoleon’s public grief at the death of Jean Lannes represented a new model for social relations between soldiers in the early nineteenth-century France. weeping over his friend’s broken body, Napoleon demonstrated how the revolution and empire had made it possible not only for an emperor to grieve openly for a fallen marshal, but for a soldier to love his comrade. This uncharacteristic expression of affection between Napoleon and Lannes was echoes in similar relationships between officers and foot soldiers in Napoleon’s armies. Military memories of the first empire bear witness to a wide range of intimate relationships among generals, colonels, and captains as well as sergeants, corporals, and grunts (grognards), the infantry soldiers who made up the majority of the imperial armies. Napoleon’s love for Lannes might thus be said to represent a broad spectrum of masculine affection and intimacy in the ranks of the Grande Armée, or what could be called Napoleonic friendship.

#napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #napoleonic friendship #history #19th century #18th century #napoleonic #napoleonic france

[alainlesourd-14]

Honoré de BALZAC

Scènes de la vie privée

Mame et Delaunay-Vallée & Levavasseur, Paris 1830, 13x21,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Édition originale rare et recherchée.

Reliures en demi basane fauve, dos lisses ornés d’arabesques dorées ainsi que de motifs typographiques à froid, pièces de titre et de tomaison de basane bleu marine renouvelées, guirlandes dorées en tête et en queue, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, exemplaire réemboîté, reliures romantiques de l’époque.

Quelques petites rousseurs.

Précieux envoi autographe signé d’Honoré de Balzac : « à Monsieur Leroy comme un témoignage de la reconnaissance de l’auteur. Avril 1831. De Balzac ».

Exceptionnel envoi politique à Henry Leroy, dédicataire de l’ultime Lettre sur Paris publiée dans Le Voleur et témoin, aux lendemains des Trois Glorieuses, des velléités électorales de Balzac qui influenceront profondément ses écrits.

Au-delà du geste politique, le don de ces Scènes de la vie privée pour satisfaire à ses ambitions publiques inscrivent, dès l’origine de son engagement, la prééminence du projet littéraire sur l’action politique de l’auteur de La Comédie Humaine.

Bien qu’il considère la monarchie de Juillet comme une trahison, celle-ci offre à Balzac la possibilité de réaliser un rêve déjà ancien, celui de l’action politique. Déjà en 1819, il écrivait à sa sœur : « Si je suis un gaillard […], je puis avoir encore autre chose que la gloire littéraire, il est beau d’être un grand homme et un grand citoyen. » La modification des conditions d’éligibilité offre au démiurge l’occasion de participer à l’écriture de la grande Histoire. Balzac, « sur les traces de son modèle, Chateaubriand, veut cumuler les fonctions de penseur et d’acteur du politique » (cf. P. Baudouin in Balzac et le politique).

La maturation de cette ambition se fait au travers des Lettres sur Paris, 19 articles publiés dans Le Voleur entre septembre 1830 et mars 1831 et se concluant sur la célèbre Enquête sur la politique des deux ministères. Jamais signés, ces articles constituent la plus importante réflexion politique de Balzac et ont suscité, à ce titre, de très nombreuses études et commentaires. Chacune des Lettres est symboliquement adressée à un destinataire désigné uniquement par son initiale et sa ville. S’ils furent longtemps considérés comme fictifs, la plupart d’entre eux sont aujourd’hui identifiés, notamment parmi les proches de l’auteur et des personnalités politiques influentes.

Ainsi, c’est à la suite de la Lettre XVI du 26 février 1831 qui lui est adressée, que son ami Samuel Henry Berthoud suggère à Balzac de se présenter dans sa commune. Enthousiasmé par ce projet, Balzac annonce officiellement sa candidature dans la Lettre du 15 mars puis, toujours sur les conseils de Berthoud, adresse la Lettre XIX du 29 mars à M. L*** à Cambrai, astéronyme derrière lequel doit se reconnaitre l’avocat Henry Leroy, dont Balzac espère obtenir un soutien cambraisien décisif.

Les principaux espoirs politiques de Balzac se portent en effet sur Cambrai, dont il tente de séduire les élites tandis que Berthoud, rédacteur en chef de la Gazette de Cambrai, assure sa promotion et sa popularité auprès du peuple : « M. de Balzac n’est point seulement un écrivain célèbre, il est plus encore peut-être un publiciste profond. Il ne faut citer à l’appui de cette assertion que les Lettres sur Paris publiées dans Le voleur et dans lesquelles on remarque un jugement si sûr, une précision si lucide […]. En outre, M. de Balzac s’occupe d’une publication de politique populaire qui doit contribuer puissamment à répandre, parmi les classes pauvres, l’instruction et mieux encore : les idées saines. »

Ce faisant, le journaliste écrivait à son ami et champion : « Hâtez-vous […] de venir à Cambrai. Nous ferons aller la grosse caisse et la Société d’émulation servira d’instrument. »

C’est donc naturellement auprès d’Henry Leroy, président de cette influente Société d’émulation, que Balzac, devenu membre correspondant, déploie ses charmes. S’enquérant auprès de Berthoud de l’« espèce d’ouvrage politique [qui] pourrait appuyer [s]a candidature à Cambrai », Balzac choisit étrangement cette édition des Scènes de la vie privée, pourtant très peu « politique », qu’il offre à Henry Leroy par l’intermédiaire de son ami. En témoigne la lettre de remerciement que lui adresse l’avocat le 7 mai 1831 : « M. Berthoud m’a fait remettre de votre part deux volumes des Scènes de la vie privée. […] je me félicite […] d’en devoir la possession à son auteur, que tout le monde s’accorde à placer au rang des meilleurs écrivains ». Dès le 19 mars, Berthoud annonçait dans saGazette le don de deux ouvrages de Balzac à la Société d’émulation, les Scènes de la vie privée et Physiologie du mariage. La missive de Leroy semble modérer cette information puisqu’il ne remercie l’auteur que pour les Scènes.

Balzac « électeur éligible » comme il se plaisait à se présenter durant sa campagne, n’obtiendra aucun siège et moins de deux mois après avoir annoncé publiquement ses ambitions, il se retire de la course. Malgré les éloges médiatiques de quelques inconditionnels partisans du grand homme dont Le Voleur, L’Avenir ou la Revue encyclopédique qui prédisent à l’auteur un grand avenir politique, ou encore de La Mode qui ne craint pas de le poser en successeur de Chateaubriand, « digne d’allier les deux titres d’écrivain et d’homme d’État » (30 avril 1831), l’éphémère parcours politique de Balzac se solda par un cuisant échec.

Fustigeant à part égale les châtelains légitimistes dont il se réclame pourtant, et le peuple républicain – qu’il célèbre par ailleurs en affirmant connaître les attentes « de la partie solide de la nation, celle qui laboure, qui travaille » – Balzac se révèle un piètre politicien. Il n’abandonnera pourtant jamais ses espoirs et subira de nouveaux revers en 1832 et en 1848 car, comme le note Stefan Zweig dans sa biographie, le romancier s’est toujours trouvé « dans la politique pratique – comme dans les affaires – du mauvais côté ».

Cependant, au-delà du constat d’échec, ce premier épisode détermine autant qu’il révèle la complexité de la relation de Balzac à la politique qui se caractérise par une subordination du politique au littéraire. Dans Balzac et le politique Boris Lyon-Caen relève l’évidente « polyphonie littéraire » des Lettres sur Paris, tandis que Pierre Laforgue soupçonne une élaboration très précoce (contemporaine de cette première aventure électorale) des Scènes de la vie politique qui ne paraîtront qu’en 1842 mais qui hantent l’œuvre depuis 1830.

Enfin, Pierre Barbéris met l’accent sur l’importance déterminante sur l’œuvre balzacienne de la désillusion de 1831. Quelles que soient ses déclarations d’allégeance ultérieures, Balzac, dès 1831, ne peut plus être un acteur politique. En effet, l’exhaustive Comédie Humaine qu’il élabore, se nourrissant des échecs de l’homme, absorbera toutes les formes d’actions politiques et les velléités partisanes de son auteur. Ainsi de cet article de 1832 intitulé Du gouvernement moderne qui se mue en l’un de ses chefs d’œuvre : Le Médecin de campagne.

Or, en choisissant ses Scènes de la vie privée comme « ouvrage politique » pour appuyer sa candidature auprès de Leroy, Balzac témoigne, dès l’aube de son engagement, de la prédominance de son œuvre littéraire sur ses aspirations personnelles. Nul doute que le destinataire ne pouvait rien lire de politique dans cette œuvre totalisante, car, comme l’écrira lui-même bientôt Balzac dans Louis Lambert : « La politique est une science sans principes arrêtés, sans fixité possible ; elle est le génie du moment, l’application constante de la force, suivant la nécessité du jour. »

Pour découvrir dans ces Scènes un engagement politique plus vaste que ses ambitions électorales, il eut fallu que ce notable de Cambrai eut la perspicacité de Victor Hugo qui, aux funérailles de Balzac, déclarera : « À son insu, qu’il le veuille ou non, qu’il y consente ou non, l’auteur de cette œuvre immense et étrange est de la forte race des écrivains révolutionnaires. »

Remarquable exemplaire, portant un précieux envoi autographe, dans une élégante reliure du temps.

https://www.edition-originale.com/fr/litterature/editions-originales/balzac-scenes-de-la-vie-privee-1830-54224

[whatwoulddelanydo]

If one tried to construct the Temple of Literature from only the fifty “pillars” below, it would collapse spectacularly. Nevertheless, here is a contingent group of titles that, to paraphrase Christopher Higgs, if I hadn’t read and reread over the years, I wouldn’t be myself. How much that is worth, I’m not sure. 1)   Djuna Barnes—Nightwood 2)   Charles H. Kahn—The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (an edition of the fragments with commentary) 3)   William Shakespeare—Sonnets, Tragedies, most of the Comedies . . . 4)   Eileen Myles—Inferno, The Importance of Being Iceland. 5)   Charlotte Brontë—Jane Eyre, Villette 6)   Jane Austen—Emma, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion 7)   Marquis de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom, Julliette 8)   Shoshana Felman, “Turning the Screw of Interpretation” (from Writing and Madness) 9)   Herman Melville—Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, The Confidence Man, and the shorter works 10) Sir Thomas Browne—Urn Burial, Religio Medici, correspondence 11) Walter Pater—The Renaissance, Imaginary Portraits, “A Child in the House,” Marius the Epicurean 12) Richard Hughes—A High Wind in Jamaica, In Hazard 13) George Eliot—Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda 14)   Michel Foucault—The History of Madness, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things 15)  Joanna Russ—The Female Man, We Who Are About to . . ., On Strike Against God, “Souls,” The Two of Them 16)   Guy Davenport—Tatlin! The Jules Verne Steam Balloon, Da Vinci’s Bicycle, The Death of Picasso, Twelve Stories, A Table of Green Fields, Eclogues, The Geography of the Imagination, The Hunter Gracchus, Every Force Evolves a Form, A Balance of Quinces, The Balthus Notebook 17)   Jacques Derrida—Of Grammatology, Writing and Difference, Dissemination, Glas 18)   Roger Zelazny—His short fiction in four volumes. 19)   F. Scott Fitzgerald—The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, the short stories 20)   Nathanael West—Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million, The Day of the Locust, The Dream Life of Balso Snell, 21)   Henry Roth—Call it Sleep 22)   Virginia Woolf—To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Flush, The Years, A Room of One’s Own 23)   Vladimir Nabokov—Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire 24)   Mark Twain—Huckleberry Finn, The Diary of Adam and Eve 25)   Christina Stead—The Man Who Loved Children 26)   Baruch de Spinoza—Ethics, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus 27)   William Faulkner—The YoknapatawphaCounty sequence of stories and novels 28)   W. H. Auden—The Sea and the Mirror, The Age of Anxiety, The Selected Poems 29)   Ron Silliman—The Alphabet 30)   Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell—From Hell 31)  Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill—The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (series one & two) 32)   Marilyn Hacker—First Cities, Selected Poems 1965—1990, Squares and Courtyards, Winter Numbers, Desesparanto, Names 33)   Junot Diaz—Drown, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, This Is How You Lose Her 34)   Willa Cather—My Ántonia, Song of the Lark, A Lost Lady, My Mortal Enemy, Not Under Forty, Collected Stories (Library of America) 35)   Jean Genet—Our Lady of the Flowers, Miracle of the Rose, A Thief’s Journal, Funeral Rites, Querelle de Brest, The Maids, Deathwatch, The Balcony, The Blacks, The Screens 36)   James Joyce—A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Ulysses 37)   Gertrude Stein—Lectures in America, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, How to Write, Three Lives, Wars I Have Seen, Ida, Lucy Church Amiably, The Making of Americans, Tender Buttons 38)  John Livingston Lowe—The Road to Xanadu: A Study In The Ways Of the Imagination 39)   Erich Auerbach—Mimesis 40)   John Keene—Annotations 41)   Honoré de Balzac—Lost Illusions 42)   Gustave Flaubert—Sentimental Education 43)   William Gaddis—The Recognitions, Carpenter’s Gothic 44)   Brian Evenson—The Wavering Knife (contains “Barcode Jesus,” one of the finest American short stories of the last sixty years) 45)   Theodore Sturgeon—collected short stories in 13 volumes (1938—1987, indispensible reading) 46)   Thomas M. Disch—Camp Concentration, On Wings of Song, Getting into Death (stories), The Man Who Had No Idea (stories), Fundamental Disch (stories, librettos, and essays) 47)   Samuel Beckett—Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, More Pricks Than Kicks, all the plays 48)   Malcolm Lowry—Under the Volcano 49)  Walter Benjamin—The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire, Brecht, The Arcades Project 50)  William H. Gass—Omensetter’s Luck, The Heart of the Heart of the Country, On Being Blue, Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, The Tunnel, all the nonfiction. Some Corinthian Capitals for the 50 Columns Above: 1)    Susan Sontag—I, etcetera The flatness of Sontag fictive prose is seriously off-putting to many readers—and many serious readers at that. She wanted to make her points through architecture, rather than music or ekphrasis. And in this collection of short works, she did. Along with “The Way We Live Now,” they are exemplary. I read and reread them and I always learn from them. 2)    Glenway Wescott—The Pilgrim Hawk This is another miracle of narrative architecture. One corner is left un-built—the one that would have fixated around the homosexual fascination the young chauffeur exerts over the entire party. (The fact that there is so clearly room for it is what suggests that it is there, under the rest of the text.) Right now, you have to fill it in for yourself, but the rest is right there, as pristine as you’d expect to find it in Jane Austen. 3)    Michael Cunningham—The Hours This is one of the most important novels in the development of the American novel because it answers a challenge first articulated by Leslie Fiedler in his 1960 work, Love and Death in the American Novel. Claimed Fiedler, the novel as a genre must strive to encompass a rich set of deep and resonant relations between a man and a woman. And until the historical situation much improves in terms of equality, the cross-gender friendship at the center of this book is about the best we can hope for that is not just lies and/or simple fantasies. 4)    Longus—Daphnis and Chloe One of the oldest novels and one of the most effective. This is romance stripped to its bones; it’s quite wonderful and filled with narrative magic. 5)    Hugo Von Hofmannsthal—The Lord Chados Letter Whenever I feel myself straying near writers’ block, I read this witty farewell to literature by a young medieval much too full of his own accomplishments, and I go dancing away and back to the writing desk and get happily to work again. 6)    Leonid Tsypkin—Summer in Baden Baden. This astonishing chronicle of pathological gambling addiction is breathless and frightening, and is made more so when we realize that it is the great novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky who was so afflicted. With our return to the present, the ending is heartbreaking as we meet the scholars who are, themselves, addicted to their pursuit of the minutiae of Dostoevsky’s life, and what they have put at stake to pursue their obsessions and make this story recountable. This great short novel is by a Russian doctor and scholar who wrote only one.

“For Big Other on William H. Gass’s Birthday,” by Samuel R. Delany

Maybe if I read all these I’ll be able to soak up an iota of Delany’s greatness.

#samuel delany #temple of literature #literary pillars #william h glass #books #literature #reading list #canon

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17 French Love Quotes To Warm Your Heart

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17 French Love Quotes To Warm Your Heart

Esha Saxena Hyderabd040-395603080 August 30, 2019

When it comes to weaving together words that capture the true essence of love, the French seem to have got it just right. Often considered to be one of the most romantic languages in the world, French is a Romance language that originated from Latin. To the non-native ear, French sounds even more musical. This language is ardently dedicated to euphony and melodious intonation. To celebrate the beauty of this language, we have put together 17 love quotes in French that will both melt your heart and make you think.

17 Beautiful French Love Quotes For The Romantic In You

“Je t’aime plus qu’hier moins que demain” – Rosemonde Gérard English Translation: “I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”

“En sa beauté gît ma mort et ma vie.” – Maurice Scève English Translation: “In her beauty resides my death and my life.”

“Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.” – Blaise Pascal English Translation: “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

“Aimer, ce n’est pas se regarder l’un l’autre, c’est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry English Translation: “Love does not mean gazing at each other, but looking together in the same direction”

“L’amour est la poésie des sens.” – Honoré de Balzac English Translation: “Love is the poetry of the senses.”

“La passion est toute l’humanité, sans elle, la religion, l’histoire, le roman, l’art seraient inutiles.” – Honoré de Balzac English Translation: “Passion is in all humanity; without it, religion, history, literature, and art would be rendered useless.”

“Vivre sans aimer n’est pas proprement vivre.” – Molière English Translation: “To live without loving is to not really live.”

“On n’aime que ce qu’on ne possède pas tout entier.” – Marcel Proust English Translation: “We love only what we do not wholly possess.”

“La vie est un sommeil, l’amour en est le rêve.” – Alfred de Musset English Translation: “Life is a long sleep and love is its dream.”

“J’entends ta voix dans tous les bruits du monde.” – Paul Éluard English Translation: “I hear your voice in all of the world’s noise.”

“Je viens du ciel et les étoiles entre elles ne parlent que de toi.” – Francis Cabrel English Translation: “I come from the sky, and the stars only ever speak of you.”

“L’esprit s’enrichit de ce qu’il reçoit, le cœur de ce qu’il donne.” – Victor Hugo English Translation: “The spirit grows with what it receives, the heart with what it gives.”

“Aimer, c’est vivre; aimer, c’est voir; aimer, c’est être.” – Victor Hugo English Translation: “To love is to live; to love is to see; to love is to be.”

“Je t’aime parce que tout l’univers a conspiré à me faire arriver jusqu’à toi.” – Paulo Coelho English Translation: “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”

“Elle avait dans les yeux, la force de son coeur.” – Charles Baudelaire English Translation: “She had in her eyes, the force of her heart.”

“Je pense toujours à toi.” – Unknown English Translation: “I always think of you.”

“Il n’est rien de réel que le rêve et l’amour.” – Anna de Noailles English Translation: “Nothing is real, but dreams and love.”

These gorgeous quotes are great to text to your beloved. But, what about some basic French to impress them? Here are a few popular French phrases that you can pepper into your everyday conversations to woo your partner.

10 Popular Romantic French Phrases That You Should Know

“Je t’aime” English Translation: “I love you”

“Tu me manques.” English Translation: “You are missing from me.”

“Mon/ma chéri” English Translation: “My dear”

“Qu’est-ce que je ferais sans toi?” English Translation: “What would I do without you?

“Tu me rends fou.” English Translation: “You drive me crazy!”

“Tu es ma joie de vivre.” English Translation: “You are the joy of my life.”

“Je veux être avec toi.” English Translation: “I want to be with you.”

“Mon amour pour toi est éternel.” English Translation: “My love for you is eternal.”

“Veux-tu m’épouser?” English Translation: “Will you marry me?”

“Je veux passer ma vie avec toi.” English Translation: “I want to spend my life with you.”

Wasn’t that a treat for your soul? There is something about French, a certain je ne sais quoi that makes it widely considered to be one of the most beautiful languages in the world. Which one of these French quotes were you able to connect with the most? Let us know in the comments section below.

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(translated this map depicting the locations of Old Goriot + locations of the diffrent social classes in Paris in 1819)

#maps #reference #balzac/hugo related #le pére goriot #balzac #(something that doesn't look too clear here: both items 2 and 3 are within the faubourg saint-honoré) #(really don't know how accurate is the inclusion of the artists lodgings right bellow the bakners #these might be well stablished artists's ateliers?) #(also translated sabios as scholars but it's such an ambiguous word...) #anyways #if something is inaccurate here feel free to let me know

[reseau-actu]

Chaque année 170.000 hugo­lâtres effectuent le pélerinage dans l'ancien appartement de l'auteur des Misérables.

Bien que l'entrée soit gratuite, il faut saluer comme une performance que chaque année 170.000 hugolâtres effectuent le pèlerinage de l'ex-place Royale rebaptisée place des Vosges par reconnaissance envers les bons contribuables de ce département. Certes, Georges Simenon et Annie Girardot habitèrent aussi cet endroit, peut-être le plus prisé de la capitale. Jack Lang gîte toujours dans les parages et il y a gros à parier que DSK reçut davantage de visiteuses dans son logement que l'auteur des Misérables dans son somptueux 280 m2. En fait, c'est moins la vie quotidienne du génial touche-à-tout qu'on évoque que ses différents domiciles en prenant bien soin de préciser que presque toute sa vie il ne fut que locataire puisqu'il n'accéda à la propriété qu'en s'exilant à Guernesey.

Place des Vosges, il y a beaucoup de meubles et énormément de tableaux mais peu de souvenirs vraiment intimes. Sans doute Mme Hidalgo, tutelle municipale du musée, s'est-elle souvenue du fameux vers d'Après la bataille: «C'était un Espagnol de l'armée en déroute...» Heureusement, Paul Meurice, le jeune écrivain pour lequel sur le tard Hugo s'était pris d'amitié au point d'en faire son exécuteur testamentaire, avait pensé à tout. Sans sa générosité et le culte qu'il vouait au disparu, les milliers de missives envoyées par Juju à son Totor pendant un demi-siècle auraient été dispersées de même que les portraits de Lépoldine, la noyée de Villequier ; le pupitre devant lequel il écrivait debout comme Henri Troyat ; la table aux quatre encriers, œuvre de l'écrivain lui-même qui était aussi habile de ses mains que de son esprit. Sans omettre le lit où il s'est éteint avant d'être veillé par la flamme du Soldat inconnu. Je n'ai pas retrouvé le portrait de Léonie Biard, la jolie bourgeoise que son péché d'adultère conduisit en prison sans que son amant, à l'époque pair de France, fût inquiété. En revanche, j'ai salué en traversant la place de la Concorde la statue de Strasbourg pour laquelle Juju avait posé à la demande du sculpteur Pradier avant de lui donner un enfant. Par la suite, Hugo s'installa rue d'Issy, rue de la Tour-d'Auvergne puis, à son retour d'exil, sur cette avenue d'Eylau à laquelle on offrit son patronyme au lendemain de son 79e anniversaire. Ainsi, jusqu'à ce qu'il posât ses valises pour l'éternité au Panthéon, reçut-il chaque matin un courrier adressé «A Monsieur Victor Hugo, En son avenue, à Paris».

L'histoire littéraire n'a pas retenu le nombre de repas qu'Hugo ­prenait hors de chez lui. Peut-être au nom de la paix des ménages dînait-il souvent deux fois de suite

Regrets de n'avoir pu admirer les dessins à la plume du maître et feuilleter ses manuscrits légués selon son vœu à la Bibliothèque nationale. Des journées et des nuits qu'il consacra à l'une des œuvres littéraires les plus considérables du XIXe siècle, des discours politiques qu'il rédigeait presque chaque jour et des pièces de théâtre rarement jouées aujourd'hui, il ne reste plus que l'harmonie architecturale sur laquelle se posait son regard entre deux alexandrins. Des ombres talentueuses passent du salon rouge au salon chinois: Balzac, grand créateur de personnages mais médiocre styliste ; Alexandre Dumas, qui avait domicilié la Milady de ses Trois Mousquetaires 6, place des Vosges ; George Sand, qui, à Venise, trompait Chopin avec le médecin de l'hôtel Danieli ; Lamartine qui tâta lui aussi du suffrage universel ; Prosper Mérimée, qui trahit la confiance d'Hugo en devenant plus tard l'intendant des plaisirs de Napoléon le Petit, et surtout Théophile Gauthier, qui lui avait envoyé la préface de Mademoiselle de Maupin au fil de laquelle il définissait l'art romanesque.

Les relations avec Sainte-Beuve furent plus orageuses. Le critique le plus redouté de l'époque avait commencé par encenser Hugo. Avant de jalouser férocement ses succès et de tomber amoureux d'Adèle, sa femme. Bien sûr, tout en se proclamant démocrate, le père Hugo n'en avait pas moins été royaliste. Mais le charme bonapartiste s'était rompu lorsque Louis-Napoléon qu'il avait aidé à devenir président de la République décida de coiffer la couronne impériale. Ayant choisi l'exil, Hugo rompit avec Paris, l'Académie, les mondanités et la France. La vie ne devait pas être très gaie à Hauteville House, grande bâtisse à la décoration gothique. A quelques centaines de mètres, à l'enseigne de Hauteville Fairy, Juliette attendait son bien-aimé. C'est peu dire que ce dernier l'avait installée dans ses meubles car il avait conçu et souvent fabriqué le mobilier authentifié par les monogrammes de VH et JD. L'histoire littéraire n'a pas retenu le nombre de repas qu'Hugo prenait hors de chez lui. Peut-être au nom de la paix des ménages dînait-il souvent deux fois de suite.

D'autres trésors peu connus se cachent au dernier étage du musée parisien. Car le général Hugo, Adèle Hugo, Charles et François-Victor noircissaient aussi du papier. La visite est terminée. Il vaut mieux oublier le guide qui s'embrouille parfois dans les décennies.

#victor hugo #débats culturels #débat culture #culture #débat

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Literature and Writing

ANNE PERRY: PUT YOUR HEART ON THE PAGE - DEVELOPING CHARACTER

Developing Your Characters, like its predecessors, aims to give the viewer an all important one-on-one learning experience which they can view at their leisure, stopping to take in what is being imparted, or to consider their own responses to questions posed.

There is homework in the way of exercises for those who are writing, to think about, such as "what does each main character want? What do they need in their life". This installment, like Ms. Perry's previous titles provides a motivating force for aspiring novelist.? Anne Perry provides the insights personally. The exercises have been compiled by Anne and her long time literary agent Meg Davis.

DVD / 2016 / 60 minutes

ANNE PERRY: PUT YOUR HEART ON THE PAGE - PLOTTING TO ENRICHING YOUR BACK STORY

Anne Perry returns with yet another Master Class level presentation: Plotting to Enrich Your Back Story.

The program is aimed at helping the aspiring writer navigate the complex world of adding plots within their story so that they can carefully reveal information needed to build out the story lines and characters.

Anne Perry is the international bestselling author of over fifty novels, which have sold over 25 million copies. The Times selected her as one of the 20th Century's 100 Masters of Crime. In 2015 she was awarded the Premio de Honor Aragon Negro.

DVD / 2016 / 60 minutes

ANNE PERRY: PUT YOUR HEART ON THE PAGE

PUT YOUR HEART ON THE PAGE: An Introduction to Writing By Anne Perry

With 75 novels published since 1978, all remain in print. Sales total more than 25 million books.

Anne Perry started out as a good writer, but has won greatness inch by inch by reading other authors, listening to editors and agents, and adapting techniques from other creators. Now you, too, can learn from an author who The New York Times has called First Rate, and who is included in the 100 Masters of the crime genre; who has sold 25 million copies worldwide to continuing critical acclaim. In this instructional video, Anne references her quintet of novels about World War One to demonstrate the various themes which need to be considered when you first pick up that pen. Although writing a book can be like climbing Everest, the advice you find here will save troublesome extra drafts, and give you a head start towards an enjoyable writing experience and a successful novel.

DVD / 2015 / 67 minutes

SCIENCE FICTION: JULES VERNE TO RAY BRADBURY & BEYOND

Using screen adaptions of Frankenstein, 20,000 leagues Under The Sea, The Time Machine, and The Martian Chronicles, this program illustrates some major themes of science fiction. Students see how this literay form has developed in our century, and why is it so popular. Examples are discussed in terms of their psychological, religious and philosophical contributions.

DVD / 1990 / 30 minutes

SHAKESPEARE IS ALIVE & WELL IN MODERN WORLD

This program compares Shakespearean themes with similar themes from modern works, enabling students to penetrate complex Elizabethan vocabulary and experience insight into character's feelings, motives and actions. Film clips from screen adaptations of 'Wuthering Heights', 'Lord of the Flies', 'Mutiny on the Bounty', 'Animal Farm', 'The Lives of Dorian Gray' and others help illustrate themes like alienations, evil and ambition.

DVD / 1990 / 47 minutes

MARK TWAIN, HUCKLEBERRY FINN AND THE MISSISSIPPI: A COMMENTARY

Give students background information about Mark Twain and his work in this interview with noted scholar Lee chlesinger, Associate Professor of Literature at the State University of New York at Purchase. The program focuses on the deeper implications of Huckleberry Finn and makes an ideal introduction to the book.

DVD / 1987 / 25 minutes

SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES: A COMMENTARY

Explore the characters, stories and central themes of Shakespearean tragedy. The program is based on an interview with Suzanne L. Wofford, Assistant Professor of English, Yale University, who describes the theater of Shakespeare's day and the nature of Shakespearean tragedy.

DVD / 1987 / 28 minutes

STEINBECK: GRAPES OF WRATH & THE DEPRESSION - A VIDEO COMMENTARY

Introduce your students to one of the most important novels of the century. The program features an expert who provides backgrounds for both the novel and movie; covers social concerns suggested by the novel; the relationship of the novel to the movie and to documentaries and photography of the period.

DVD / 1987 / 26 minutes

INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH LITERATURE

Using selections from French prose and poetry, this program develops an overview of French history from the coronation of Charlemagne to the present. Included are dramatized reading from contemporary sources, commentary by modern scholars, on-location photography and fine are from major French libraries and museums. Students hear passages from Etieene de Fougeres, Guibert de Nogent, the 12th-century ltters of Heloise and Abelard, Francois Villon, Rabelais, Montaigne, Henry IV, Descartes, Pascal, Moliere, Racine, Louis XIV, Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Stephane Mallarme, Proust, Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir.

DVD / 1985

HARLEM RENAISSANCE & BEYOND, THE

This examination of current black literature deepens appreciation of black literary traditions and relates literary expression to social struggle. The spirit of Harlem and its people is evoked by excerpts from Hughes, Cullen and McKay. Selections from Brooks, Horne and Walker, with a discussion of "Native Son" by Richard Wright, illustrate changes in black literature after the Harlem Renaissance. These differences are related to changes wrought by the Depression and World War II. Contemporary black writers who deal with other themes explain their work and their feelings about black consciousness.

DVD / 1978 / 31 minutes

POETIC EXPERIENCE, THE

This program provides a simple, lyrical introduction to such poetic elements as word selection, rhythm, form, imagery, meter, simile, metaphor and rhyme. Instructive points are demonstrated by examples from Shakespeare, cummings, Whitman, Ciardi, Ferlinghetti, Booth, Horne, Williams, Cullen, MacLeish and Marianne Moore.

DVD / 1978

ELIZABETHAN AGE, THE

This program examines the main events and major trends of the reign of Elizabeth I and relates her personality to England's political, economic and cultural growth. Period art, music and excerpts from writings by Elizabeth and other major figures are included with on-location photography. The words of such Elizabethan writers as Shakespeare and John Davies communicate the enthusiasm for art and letters which swept England during the era. The political significance of Elizabeth's personal life is also noted.

DVD / 1977 / 37 minutes

EXPLORING THE NOVEL: FOR ENTERTAINMENT & COMPREHENSION

Introduce students to the traditions of realism and romanticism. Dramatized selections illustrate such major elements as characters, plot, setting, style, point of view and theme. Includes excerpts from the writings of Dickens, Salinger, Huxley, Hemingway, Austen, Joyce, Steinbeck, Kesey, Swift, Tolkien and others.

DVD / 1977 / 48 minutes

SHAKESPEARE: A DAY AT THE GLOBE

Students trace the development of England's commercial and military power, and social and cultural life. This leads to a discussion of early theaters and the operations of the Globe-its architecture, stage design and galleries. Dramatic readings, authentic costumes and sound effects present Shakespearean drama as it may have looked to its original audiences.

DVD / 1977 / 38 minutes

AMERICAN GOTHIC: HAWTHORNE & MELVILLE

Here's a great way to encourage students to appreciate the literature of these two giants. The program identifies Hawthorne and Melville as innovative symbolists whose focus on harsh realities and basic conflicts became foundations for later development of the American novel. Readings of major works are presented against a background of prints, paintings and photographs.

DVD / 1976 / 28 minutes

DRAMA/COMEDY

Comic drama draws on a lively repertoire of resources. This program discusses comedy-- its plot devices, stock characters, different forms, satiric goals and black humor--and illustrates its diversity with lively excerpts from Shakespeare, Kopit, Simon, Friedman, Goldsmith and Shaw.

DVD / 1975 / 45 minutes

POETRY OF ROCK: A REFLECTION OF HUMAN VALUES

The emotional content and the poetic techniques found in rock lyrics are examined in this program, which is ideally suited to introduce students to the universality of human values, to such poetic tools as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, symbolism and allegory and to lyric, dramatic and narrative poetic forms. Hit songs from the 1950's through the 1970's are used, and students are encouraged to compare the poetry of rock with more traditional forms.

DVD / 1975 / 40 minutes

LITERATURE WITH A MESSAGE: PROTEST & PROPAGANDA, SATIRE & SOCIAL COMMENT

This program analyzes literature written for a purpose--to rally support for causes, to satirize human folly, to protest injustice, to encourage idealism and spiritual rebirth. It examines different types of literary propaganda in the Horatio Alger stories, the wartime speeches of Winston Churchill and the story "Flowers For Algernon." Literature of protest is illustrated by passages from "Cry The Beloved Country" and poems by Stephen Crane, ee. cummings and Judith Viorst. Satire is examined in "Gulliver's Travels" and "Animal Farm." Social comment in modern drama is seen in Arthur Miller's "Death Of A Salesman."

DVD / 1974 / 35 minutes

TRAGIC FLAW: NOT IN THE STARS BUT IN OURSELVES

Studies the tragic hero who, despite courage, intelligence and willpower, must act within human limitations. Examines the imprefections of tragic heroes, the qualities of character that determine their choices and the consequences of those choices. Well-known literary characters such as Cervantes' Don Quixote and Fitgerald's Jay Gatsby illustrate this story of the tragic hero.

DVD / 1974 / 35 minutes

SHORT STORY, THE

This program explains the key elements of the short story and the varied methods and objectives of short story writers. The techniques of scuh writers as Poe, Thurber, Sillitoe, Updike, Saroyan, O. Henry, Anderson, London and Hemingway are compared. Dramatized reading from the work of Jean Stafford and Flannery O'Connor are followed by the authors' own insights into their work methods and feelings.

DVD / 1973 / 59 minutes

EDGAR ALLAN POE: LITERATURE OF MELANCHOLY

Through dramatizations and discussions of his work, this program examines Poe's personality and his view of the intellectual as a superior but isolated being. It also investigates the invention of the detective story, his understanding of horror, violence and paranoia, and his use of poetry to reveal melancholy and romantic love.

DVD / 1970 / 30 minutes

GEOFFREY CHAUCER: POET AND PILGRIM

Through explanatory narrative, dramatized readings and medieval art, this program builds apprecication of "The Canterbury Tales" and a sense of 14th-century English life. On-location photography of the actual route followed by the Pilgrims, and of the great cathedrals of Canterbury, Salisbury and Winchester adds perspective to the poet's life. A pilgrim reviews the role of Canterbury pilgrimmages, Chaucer's career, his use of vernacular English, and his wit, descriptive genius and power of characterization. Students hear the Miller, Friar, Pardoner, Prioress, Wife of Bath and other pilgrims introduce themselves in the "Prologue" and then enjoy the classic tale of the Nun's Priest.

DVD / 1970 / 25 minutes

VICTORIAN AGE, THE

This program offers literary and historical insight into key Victorian themes. Charles Dickens is featured as the central Victorian novelist and his social themes are examined in depth. Students survey the range of Victorian thought and tradition in excerpts from Browning, Arnold, Tennyson, Carlyle and Ruskin. Dickens's impact on his time and on the novel itself is considered. Dramatized readings invite students analyze his themes. On-location photography and Victoria art are included.

DVD / 1970 / 29 minutes

JACK LONDON: A LIFE OF ADVENTURE

Extensive readings from Jack London's works- combined with his own photographs, illustrations from his books, historical documents and on-location photographs-help students comprehend the life experiences that shaped his writing. His themes of discipline, social justice, adaptability and individual survival are explored.

DVD / 1969 / 24 minutes

ADVENTURE IN LITERATURE, AN: TO BE A WOMAN AND A WRITER

This program uses numerous examples from literature to demonstrate the specific challenges women have faced as writers. Students will gain a deeper appreciation of the accomplishments of earlier generations of writers.

DVD

BIBLE, THE: A STUDY IN LITERATURE

Through art, drama and analysis, this program shows the Old & New Testament orgins of many contemporary literary forms, styles & devices. Students will discover elements of the short story, biography, fable, adventure, tradegy, parable and novel in the tales of Cain and Abel, Joseph, Balaam and the Ass, David and Goliath, Job, the Good Samaritan and the book of Esther. They also note the use of poetic devices in Genesis, the Pslams, The Book of Revelation and the tales of David and Noah.

DVD / 39 minutes

BRONTES, THE: FANTASY AND REALITY

Excerpts from journals, letters, poetry and prose enrich this narrative biography of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte. The program introduces the sisters' major works and illuminates their basic, recurrent themes. Samples of their own art-work, on-location photography of northern England, as well as prints, paintings and sketches portray the land and the period. Students follow the career of each sister and relate specific psychological concerns and fictional events to their experiences and to their times. The program concludes with a dramatized reading from "Wuther Heights."

DVD

CLASSROOM CLASSICS I

Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed. Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank & A Separate Peace by John Knowles.

DVD / 29 minutes

CLASSROOM CLASSICS II

Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed. Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: Lord of the Flies by William Golding & The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

DVD / 25 minutes

CLASSROOM CLASSICS III

Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed. Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee & The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.

DVD / 32 minutes

CLASSROOM CLASSICS IV

Identify major literary themes and see how characters and plots are developed. Program features dramatic clips from these popular classics: Animal Farm by George Orwell & The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

DVD / 33 minutes

CONCORD: A NATION'S CONSCIENCE

Students hear the voices of American social protest, moral outage and personal integrity, expressed in the writings of Emerson & Thoreau, and relate their philosophies to the calm beauty of rural New England, which inspired them both.

DVD / 25 minutes

DRAMA/TRAGEDY

After discussing the meaning of tragedy and tragic conflict, this program explores the major aspects of character and structure in tragic drama. The tragic world, tragic conflict and the tragic hero are illustrated and explored through selections from such great dramatists as Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Ibsen, Shakespeare, O'Neill, Sophocles and Arthur Miller. Throughout, the program refers to Aristotle's insights into the nature of tragedy.

DVD / 45 minutes

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, WRITER: "BIG, TWO HEARTED RIVER"

Photographs of the locale of Hemingway's powerful story about Nick Adams illustrate this program. Students examine the use of characterization, style and symbol to create and sustain excitement and also explore Hemingway's concern with the inner conflict that often develops when a young person struggles to relate to the adult world.

DVD

EXPLORING THE SHORT STORY: FOR ENTERTAINMENT & COMPREHENSION

Introduce students to the elements of character, setting, plot, point of view, theme and style. Excerpts from stories by authors such as Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe and Jack London illustrate how these authors transform their thoughts and feelings into meaningful messages.

DVD / 46 minutes

FORMS OF LITERATURE: POETRY

Students are introduced to the basic poetic techniques and the endless variety of poetic forms and subjects poets have used over the centuries. The enormous possibilities of poetic expression are explored through works by cummings, Shakespeare, Edward Lear, Wordsworth, Millay, Donne, Corso, Dorothy Parker, Homer, Keats, Roethke, Hart Crane, Pound, Yeats, Coleridge and Pablo Neruda. Students eventualoly examine a Shakepearean sonnet and analyze successive drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas, Dickinson, and Williams

DVD / 41 minutes

HOOKED ON READING: ADOLESCENT NOVELS

Dramatized selections from six popular adolescent novles stimulate interest and provoke discussion, causing students to interact with the characters and their problems. The novels are on a 7th to 12th grade interest level and have a 5th to 6th grade reading level. Each part dramatizes protions of two novels. Students are asked to speculate on what will happen as a result of the actions of the principal characters. Featuring: "The Pigman"; "The Contender"; "Lisa, Bright and Dark"; "The Outsiders"; "Sounder"; "Drop-Out."

DVD / 37 minutes

INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN LITERATURE, AN

Excerpts from Russian fiction, theatre and biography augment historical background to create a portrait of Russian social and literary development in the 19th and 20th centuries. This discussion is illuminated by photography, Russian art and sculpture. The program traces early 19th century Russian history and culture through Pushkin and Gogol. Profound changes in 19th century Russain life are reflected in excerpts from the works of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Yarmolinsky. Students see the 20th century unfold through excerpts from Pasternak, Sholokhov and Solzhenitsyn.

DVD / 55 minutes

LITERATURE OF THE SUPERNATURAL: WORLDS BEYOND REASON

An exciting exploration of the literature that deals with gods, angels, demons and spirits--beings who take an active and sometimes frightening interest in human affairs. Describes mankind's abiding fear of and fascination with life after death, and shows the high price that many fictional characters have paid for dabbling in the supernatural.

DVD / 41 minutes

ROMANTIC AGE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, THE

The period's literary themes and social currents are explored through extensive excerpts from Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats; biographical notes on each poet; and introductory analysis of their work. On-location photography is included with original illustrations and paintings from the National Portrait Gallery in London. Readings vividly demonstrate the influence of key ideas on the Romantic movement.

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SIX POETS: SEARCHING FOR RHYME AND REASON

Providing extensive biographical profiles and readings from each writer's most famous works, this series explores the lives and literary legacies of six major poets: John Donne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden.

John Donne: Synonymous with metaphysical poetry, John Donne combined wit with passion, startling diction with curious contrasts. This program chronicles his extraordinary life as lawyer, lover, sailor, father, preacher, and poet. Manuscripts and paintings are combined with readings from many of Donne's most famous writings, including "The Flea," "Elegy XX," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Calm," "Progress of the Soul," "Holy Sonnet XVII," "Meditation XVII," and "Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness."

Walt Whitman: A self-styled sketch runs, "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos." He could have added journalist, carpenter, nurse, and one of the greatest poets in English. This program presents a unique literary biography, tracing Whitman's childhood, various careers, and the evolution of the masterpiece that proved his lifelong work, Leaves of Grass. A collage of photos, paintings, and manuscripts accompanies excerpts of letters from Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as readings from sections of Leaves of Grass, such as "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and "Native Moments."

Emily Dickinson: While many of her literary peers achieved notoriety, "the woman in white" remained virtually unknown - by choice. The self-imposed obscurity of Emily Dickinson is just one of many aspects of her life that this program explores. Blending daguerreotypes, paintings, manuscripts, excerpts from Dickinson's letters, and readings from nearly a dozen of her poems, this program presents the biography of one of America's most unique and influential voices in poetry.

Ezra Pound: Ezra Pound wielded tremendous influence on the 20th century's literature while he cut a controversial path through its politics. His challenge, "make it new," became Modernism's touchstone. This program follows his life's extraordinary course, from his collaborations with Yeats and Eliot through his years of detention at St. Elizabeths Hospital. A wealth of photographs and manuscripts is blended with readings from his letters, essays, and poems, including "Meditatio," "In a Station of the Metro," and selections from his epic work, The Cantos.

T.S. Eliot: As a poet, T. S. Eliot did not just modernize, he revolutionized. As critic and publisher, he informed literary theory and promoted a generation of major young writers. This richly resourced program provides a concise biography of Eliot, tracing the key events of his life and highlighting his many contributions to English literature. The program features readings and excerpts from his major poems and critical work, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Sweeney among the Nightingales," "Gerontion," "The Hollow Men," "Ash Wednesday," The Wasteland, Four Quartets, and The Sacred Wood.

W.H. Auden: A prolific virtuoso of poetic forms and techniques, W. H. Auden achieved literary fame on both sides of the Atlantic. This program traces his life's story and provides a sampling of his very best works, including "Musee des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," "Epitaph on a Tyrant," "Leap Before You Look," and "The Shield of Achilles."

6 DVDs / 120 minutes

WALT WHITMAN: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL

Extensive readings, critical insights and biographical details are used to develop a texteured portrait of Walt Whitman and to demonstrate his innovative influences on American literature. The program explores his visions of political democracy, social harmony, and sensual joy in nature and the continuity of life. Photography of New York scenes illustrates selections from "Leaves Of Grass," "Drum Taps," and "Specimen Days."

DVD / 23 minutes

WHAT IS SATIRE?

Students review traditional targets for satire--pompous, domineering and hypocritical people; social, political and religious institutions--and traditional uses of satire--to amuse, criticize or persuade with varying degrees of subtlety. In this program, songs, essays, poems and works of fiction drawn from many periods illuminate the origins, development and results of this genre. Satirists such as Swift, Shaw, Woody Allen, and Dorothy Parker are presented.

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WORLD OF MARK TWAIN

Students explore Twain's works through excerpts from his best-known fiction, essays and letters. The program shows how the author's boyhood, riverboat and journalistic experiences influenced his writings.

DVD / 31 minutes

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Reading/Rereading List

Reading/Rereading List The following is an incomplete, ongoing list of the books that I wish to read or read again. The list is separated by author, in chronological order of the year of the author’s birth. Note: Rather than list all of the works by each author, I have selected only the titles that currently interest me. For complete lists, search authors on wikipedia.org. Of course in the early centuries you will find the obvious choices from both the “Western canon” and the Eastern classics listed, with the more varied, fun stuff from the twentieth century farther down the page. To search this list, hold the command key and press the f key at the same time if you are on a mac, or hold the window key and press the + key and the f key if you are on some other brand of computer. Then type a title, or a year, or an author’s name to find them on this list. * - The Egyptian Book of the Dead (3150-1550 BCE) [Wallis Budge translation, 1895] * Homer (Greek, c. 750-650 BCE) - The Iliad (c. 760-10 BCE) - The Odyssey (c. 750-00 BCE) [Fagles translations] * Hesiod (Greek, c. 750-650 BCE) - Works and Days (c. 700 BCE)[Stallings translation] * Aesop (Greek, c. 620-564 BCE) - The Complete Fables [Temple and Temple translation] * Lao Tzu (Laozi) (Chinese, born 6th to 5th century BCE, died 531 BCE) - Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) (6th century BCE)[Lau translation][Mitchell translation] * Anonymous (Indian) - The Upanishads (800-400 BCE)[Mascaró translation] * Aeschylus (Greek, 523-426 BCE) - Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: – Prometheus Bound (date and authorship disputed) – The Suppliants (463 BCE) – Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE) – The Persians (472 BCE) [Vellacott translation] - The Oresteia (458 BCE): – Agamemnon – The Libation Bearers – The Eumenides [Fagles translation] * Anonymous (Indian) - Bhagavad Gita (part of the Mahabharata) (5th-2nd century BCE)[Mascaró translation][Mitchell translation] * Buddhist Scriptures (3rd century BCE) [Lopez edit] * Anonymous (Indian) The Dhammapada (3rd century BCE)[Mascaró translation] * Sophocles (Greek, c. 497-406 BCE) - The Three Theban Plays: – Antigone (c. 441 BCE) – Oedipus the King [aka Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus Rex] (c. 429 BCE) – Oedipus at Colonus (406 BCE) [Fagles translation] * Plato (Greek, c. 428-348 BCE) - The Symposium (385-370 BCE) [Gill translation] - The Republic (370 BCE) [Rowe translation] - The Last Days of Socrates (370 BCE) [Rowe translation] - Phaedrus (370 BCE) [Rowe translation] * Aristotle (Greek, 384-322 BCE) - Nicomachean Ethics (340 BCE)[Beresford Translation] - The Art of Rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred translation] - Poetics (335 BCE) [Heath translation] * Chuang Tzu (Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi) (Chinese, 369-286 BCE) - The Book of Chuang Tzu (3rd century BCE) [Palmer and Breuilly translation] * Ovid (Greek, 43 BCE- 18 CE) - Metamorphoses (8 CE) [Raeburn translation] * - Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century CE)[Translated by Robin Hard as The Library of Greek Mythology for Oxford World's Classics] * The Talmud (200 CE) - The Talmud: A Selection [Solomon translation] * Padmasambhava, a.k.a. Guru Rinpoche (Indian, 8th century) - The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol: Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State) (written during the 8th century and buried, discovered in the 14th century) [Dorje translation] * One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic compilation of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales. Earliest known fragment dated to 9th century, first reference to title appears in 12th century) English Translations: - The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights [Burton translation] * Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki) (Japanese, c. 973 or 978-1014 or 1031) - The Tale of Genji (<1021) [Tyler translation] * Snorri Sturluson (Icelandic, 1179-1241) - The Prose Edda (1220) * Anonymous (French, 13th century) - The Quest of the Holy Grail[Matarasso translation]- The Death of King Arthur[Cables translation] * Japanese Tales (c. 1100-1300) [Tyler translation] * The Tale of the Heike (Japanese, <1330) [Tyler translation] * Dante (Italian, 1265-1321) - The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (1308-20) [Kirkpatrick translation] * Thomas Malory (English, c. 1415-1471) - Le Morte d'Arthur (completed 1469-70, published 1485) [Penguin Classics, Volumes 1 & 2] * Wu Cheng'en (Chinese, c. 1500-82) - Journey to the West (1592) [Yu translation, 1983- complete] - Monkey [Popular Waley translation of Journey to the West, 1942- abridged] * Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish, 1547-1616) - Don Quixote (1605- Part 1, 1615- Part 2) [Rutherford translation] * Christopher Marlowe (English, 1564-93) - Doctor Faustus (c. 1589, or c. 1593) * William Shakespeare (English, 1564-1616) Tragedy: - Romeo and Juliet (1594-5) - Julius Caesar (1599-1600) - Hamlet (1600-1) - Othello (1603) - King Lear (1605-6) - Macbeth (1605-6) - Antony and Cleopatra (1606-7) Comedy: - The Merchant of Venice (1596-7) - As You Like It (1599-1600) Romance: - The Tempest (1611-2) History: - Richard II (1595-6) - Henry IV, Part One (1597-8) - Henry IV, Part Two (1597-8) - Henry V (1598-9) See also: - Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom * The Bible: Authorized King James Version (1611) [Oxford World's Classics] See also: - The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible, by Harold Bloom * John Milton (English, 1608-74) - Paradise Lost (1667) * Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) - Ethics (written 1664-5, published 1677) * Pu Songling (Chinese, 1640-1715) - Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (1740) [Minford translation] * Chikamatsu Monzaemon (Japanese, 1653-1725) - The Major Plays of Chikamatsu [Keene translation] * Tenzin Chögyel (Bhutanese, 1701-67) - The Life of the Buddha (1740)[Schaeffer translation] * Laurence Sterne (Irish, 1713-68) - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) * Cao Xueqin (Chinese, 1715 or 1724-1763 or 1764) - Dream of the Red Chamber, a.k.a. The Story of the Stone (1791) [Vol. 1-3 translated by David Hawkes, Vol. 4 & 5 translated by John Minford] * Horace Walpole (English, 1717-97) - The Castle of Otranto (1764) * Ueda Akinari (Japanese, 1734-1809) - Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776) [Chambers translation] * Marquis de Sade (French, 1740-1814) - The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales (1787)[Oxford World's Classics] * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, 1749-1832) - The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)- Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795) - Faust: A Tragedy (1808) - Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy (1832) [Constantine translations- Werther from Oxford World Classics, Faust from Penguin Classics] * William Blake (English, 1757-1827) - Selected Poems * William Thomas Beckford (English, 1760-1844) - Vathek (1786) * Jan Potocki (Polish, 1761-1815) - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1805-15) [Maclean translation] * Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817) - Pride and Prejudice (1813) * E. T. A. Hoffmann (Prussian, 1776-1822) - The Golden Pot and Other Tales (Oxford World’s Classics) — The Golden Pot (1814) — The Sandman (1816) — Princess Brambilla — Master Flea — My Cousin’s Corner Window - Tales of Hoffmann (Penguin Classics) — Mademoiselle de Scudery —The Sandman — The Artushof — Councillor Krespel — The Entail — Doge and Dogaressa — The Mines at Falun — The Choosing of the Bride Novel: - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (1819) [Bell translation] See also: - The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud * Washington Irving (American, 1783-1859) - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories * Thomas de Quincey (English, 1785-1859) - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)- On Murder (1827) * The Brothers Grimm (German) Jacob (1785-1863) Wilhelm (1786-1859) - Selected Tales [Luke translation] - Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm [Pullman translation] * George Gordon, Lord Byron (English, 1788-1824) - Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics) - Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) See also:- Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler * James Fenimore Cooper (American, 1789-1851) - The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) * Percy Bysshe Shelley (English, 1792-1822) - Selected Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) * John Keats (English, 1795-1821) - Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) * Mary Shelley (English, 1797-1851) - Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) * Honoré de Balzac (French, 1799-1850) From La Comédie Humaine novel sequence: - Eugénie Grandet (1834) [Crawford translation] - Old Man Goriot (1835) [McCannon translation] - Lost Illusions (1837-43) [Hunt translation] - A Harlot High and Low (1838-47) [Heppenstall translation] - The Black Sheep (1842) [Adamson translation] - Cousin Bette (1846) [Crawford translation] - Cousin Pons (1847) [Hunt translation] * Victor Hugo (French, 1802-85) - Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)[Sturrock translation] - Les Misérables (1862) [Donougher translation] * Alexandre Dumas (French, 1802-70) - The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) [Buss translation] * Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, 1804-1864) Novels: - The Scarlet Letter (1850) - The House of the Seven Gables (1851) - The Blithedale Romance (1852) - The Marble Faun (1860) Short stories: - Selected Tales and Sketches * Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849) - The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics) * Charles Darwin (English, 1809-82) - On the Origin of Species (1859) - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) - The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) * Nikolai Gogol (Russian, 1809-52) - The Collected Tales (1831-42) - Dead Souls (1842) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] * Elizabeth Gaskell (English, 1810-65) - North and South (1854-5) - Gothic Tales (1851-61) * Harriet Beecher Stowe (American, 1811-96) - Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) * Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870) - David Copperfield (1849-50) * Sheridan Le Fanu (Irish, 1814-73) - In a Glass Darkly (Oxford World’s Classics short story collection) * Emily Brontë (English, 1818-48) - Wuthering Heights (1847) * George Eliot (English, 1819-80) - Middlemarch (1871-72) * Herman Melville (American, 1819-91) - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) * Walt Whitman (American, 1819-92) - The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics) * Gustave Flaubert (French, 1821-80) - Madame Bovary (1857) [Davis translation] * Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian, 1821-81) - Crime and Punishment (1866) - The Idiot (1869) - The Brothers Karamazov (1880) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] * Leo Tolstoy (Russian, 1828-1910) Fiction - War and Peace (1869) - Anna Karenina (1877) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] Nonfiction- What is Art?[Pevear and Volokhonsky translation]- Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy * Emily Dickinson (American, 1830-86) - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson * Lewis Carroll (English, 1832-98) - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) - Through the Looking-Glass (1871) * Mark Twain (American, 1835-1910) - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) - Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches * Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (Austrian, 1836-95) - Venus in Furs (1870) * Thomas Hardy (English, 1840-1928) Novels: - The Return of the Native (1878) - Two on a Tower (1882) - The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) - The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved and The Well-Beloved (1892) - Jude the Obscure (1895) Short story collections: - The Withered Arm and Other Stories - The Distracted Preacher and Other Tales Poetry: - Selected Poems * Ambrose Bierce (American, 1842-circa 1914) - Tales of Soldiers and Civilians * Henry James (American, mostly writing in Britain, 1843-1916) Novels: - The Portrait of a Lady (1881) - What Maisie Knew (1897) - The Spoils of Poynton (1897) - The Wings of the Dove (1902) - The Ambassadors (1903) [see also: E. M. Forster’s 1905 novel Where Angels Fear to Tread, E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel, Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cynthia Ozick’s 2010 novel Foreign Bodies] - The Golden Bowl (1904) Short stories and novellas: - Daisy Miller (1878) - The Turn of the Screw (1898) - Selected Tales (includes Daisy Miller) See also: - What Henry James Knew & Other Essays on Writers by Cynthia Ozick * Friedrich Nietzsche (German, 1844-1900) - The Birth of Tragedy (1872) - Untimely Meditations (1876) - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) - Beyond Good and Evil (1886) - Twilight of the Idols (1888) and The Antichrist (1888) See also: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. Mencken * Bram Stoker (Irish, 1847-1912) - Dracula (1897) * Joris-Karl Huysmans (French, 1848-1907) - Against Nature (1884) * Lafcadio Hearn a.k.a. Koizumi Yakumo (Greek living in Japan, 1850-1904) - Japanese Ghost Stories (Penguin Classics) * Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish, 1850-94) - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) * Guy de Maupassant (French, 1850-93) - A Parisian Affair and Other Stories (1880-90) [Miles translation] - Belle-Ami (1885) [Parmée translation] - Pierre and Jean (1888) [Tancock translation] * Kate Chopin (American, 1850-1904) - The Awakening [1899] and Selected Stories * Oscar Wilde (Irish, 1854-1900) - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) - The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) * James Frazer (Scottish, 1854-1941) - The Golden Bough (1890) * Sigmund Freud (Austrian, 1856-1939) - The Psychology of Love (Penguin Classics collection) Contents – Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria (Dora) – Three Essays on Sexual Theory – On the Sexual Theories of Children – Contributions to the Psychology of Erotic Life – ‘A Child is being Beaten’ – On Female Sexuality - The Uncanny (Penguin Classics collection) Contents – Screen Memories – The Creative Writer and Daydreaming – Family Romances – Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood – The Uncanny - Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) (Collected in The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis and The Penguin Freud Reader) - Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) * L. Frank Baum (American, 1856-1919) The Wonderful World of Oz (Penguin Classics, 9780141180854) Contents - The Wizard of Oz (1900) - The Emerald City of Oz (1910) - Glinda of Oz (1920) * George Bernard Shaw (Irish, 1856-1950) - Man and Superman (1903) * Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857-1924) - Heart of Darkness (1899) - Lord Jim (1900) - Nostromo (1904) - The Secret Agent (1907) See also: The Portable Conrad (Penguin Classics), which contains both Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent, along with other quintessential stories and writings. * Arthur Conan Doyle (British, 1859-1930) Sherlock Holmes novels (selected): - A Study in Scarlet (1886) - The Sign of the Four (1890) - The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) Sherlock Holmes story collection: - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) * J. M. Barrie (Scottish, 1860-1937) - Peter Pan (Penguin Classics)Contents-- Peter and Wendy (1911)-- Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) * Anton Chekhov (Russian, 1860-1904) - Stories of Anton Chekhov (1883-1903) - The Complete Short Novels (1888-96) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translations] * Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American, 1860-1935) - The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings * Edith Wharton (American, 1862-1937) - The House of Mirth (1905) - Ethan Frome (1911) - The Age of Innocence (1920) * O. Henry (American, 1862-1910) - Selected Stories (1904-17) [Penguin Classics] * M. R. James (English, 1862-1936) - Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Vol. 1) - The Haunted Doll’s House and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Vol. 2) * Arthur Machen (Welsh, 1863-1947) - The Great God Pan (1894) (Collected in Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Oxford World’s Classics. “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language.” - Stephen King) - The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics) * Konstantin Stanislavski (Russian, 1863-1938) - An Actor Prepares (1936) See also: No Acting Please: “Beyond the Method” A Revolutionary Approach to Acting and Living by Eric Morris and Joan Hotchkis * Maurice Leblanc (French, 1864-1941) - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief (1905) * W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865-1939) - The Collected Poems (Finneran edit) * H. G. Wells (English, 1866-1946) - The Time Machine (1895) * Natsume Sōseki (Japanese, 1867-1916) - Sanshirō (1908) [Rubin translation] - Kokoro (1914) [McKinney translation] * Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) - The Phantom of the Opera (1910) * Edwin Arlington Robinson (American, 1869-1935) - Selected Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1896-1935) * Algernon Blackwood (English, 1869-1951) - Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories * D. T. Suzuki (Japanese, 1870-1966) - An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (1934) * Marcel Proust (French, 1871-1922) - In Search of Lost Time (formerly Remembrance of Things Past): Vol. 1: The Way by Swann’s (1913) [Davis translation] Vol. 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (scheduled publication of 1914 delayed by World War I until 1919) [Grieve translation] Vol 3: The Guermantes Way (1920/21) [Treharne translation] Vol. 4: Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/22) [Sturrock translation] Vol. 5 and 6: The Prisoner and The Fugitive - The Albertine novel, parts 1 & 2 (1923 and 1925) [Clark and Collier translations] Vol. 7: Finding Time Again (1927) [Patterson translation] See also: Marcel Proust: A Life, by Edmund White * Kyōka Izumi (Japanese, 1873-1939) - Japanese Gothic Tales - In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka [Inouye translations] * W. Somerset Maugham (English, 1874-1965) - The Magician (1908) - Of Human Bondage (1915) - The Moon and Sixpence (1919) - The Painted Veil (1925) - The Narrow Corner (1932) - Up at the Villa (1941) - The Razor’s Edge (1944) - Short Stories - Far Eastern Tales - More Far Eastern Tales - Ten Novels and Their Authors (1948-49) - A Writer’s Notebook (1949) * Sherwood Anderson (American, 1876-1941) - Winesburg, Ohio (1919) * Zitkála-Šá (Sioux, 1876-1938) - American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings * Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss, 1877-1962) - Beneath the Wheel (1906) - Siddhartha (1922) - Steppenwolf (1927) - Narcissus and Goldmund (1930) - Journey to the East (1932) - The Glass Bead Game (1943) * Lord Dunsany (English, 1878-1957) - In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales * E. M. Forster (English, 1879-1970) - A Room with a View (1908) - Howards End (1910) - A Passage to India (1924) - Selected Stories (1903-60) (Penguin Classics) - Aspects of the Novel (1927) * H. L. Mencken (American, 1880-1956) - A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writings (1949) * Lu Xun (Chinese, 1881-1936) - The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (1918-35) [Lovell translation] * James Joyce (Irish, 1882-1941) Short Stories: - Dubliners (1914) Novels: - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - Ulysses (1922) - Finnegans Wake (1939) See also: - Re Joyce, by Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) - James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study, by Stuart Gilbert - A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, by Joseph Campbell (author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Power of Myth, etc.) - Joyce’s Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake, by John Bishop * Virginia Woolf (English, 1882-1941) - Mrs. Dalloway (1925) - To the Lighthouse (1927) - The Waves (1931) * Franz Kafka (Austro-Hungarian, now Czech Republic, 1883-1924) - The Trial (written 1914-5, published 1925) - The Castle (written 1922, published 1926) - The Complete Short Stories (1908-24) [Muir translations] * Eugen Herrigel (German, 1884-1955) - Zen in the Art of Archery (1948) * D. H. Lawrence (English, 1885-1930) Fiction: - Sons and Lovers (1913) - The Rainbow (1915) - Women in Love (1920) - Lady Chatterly’s Lover (1928) - Selected Stories Literary criticism: - Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) * Ezra Pound (expatriate American, 1885-1972) - The Cantos of Ezra Pound (unfinished, 1917-69) See also: A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound by William Cookson * Sinclair Lewis (American, 1885-1951) - Main Street (1920) - Babbitt (1922) * Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen’s pen name) (Danish, 1885-1962) - Seven Gothic Tales (1934) - Out of Africa (1937) - Winter’s Tales (1942) - Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) (includes Babette’s Feast) * Ring Lardner (1885-1933) - Selected Stories (Penguin Classics) * Marianne Moore (American, 1887-1972) - Complete Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1921-67) - The Poems of Marianne Moore (Penguin Classics) * T. S. Eliot (American born British citizen, 1888-1965) - The Waste Land (1922) and Other Poems - Four Quartets (1943) * Fernando Pessoa (Portuguese, 1888-1935) - The Book of Disquiet [Zenith translation] * Eugene O'Neill (American, 1888-1953) - The Iceman Cometh (written 1939, first performed 1946) - Long Day’s Journey Into Night (written 1941, first performed 1956) * Katherine Mansfield (born in New Zealand, wrote in England, 1888-1923) - The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield * Katherine Anne Porter (American, 1890-1980) - The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter (1965) * H. P. Lovecraft (American, 1890-1937) - The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories - The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories See also: - H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq - I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 by S. T. Joshi - I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 by S. T. Joshi * Boris Pasternak (Russian, 1890-1960) - Doctor Zhivago (1957) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translation] * Mikhail Bulgakov (Russian, 1891-1940) - The Master and Margarita (written 1928-40, published 1967) [Pevear and Volokhonsky translation] * Zora Neale Hurston (American, 1891-1960) - Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) * Henry Miller (American, 1891-1980) - Tropic of Cancer (1934) - Tropic of Capricorn (1939) (Banned in the United States until 1964) * Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Japanese, 1892-1927) - Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories (1914-27) [Jay Rubin translation with introduction by Haruki Murakami] * Bruno Schulz (Polish, 1892-1942) - The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (1934) * J. R. R. Tolkein (English, 1892-1973) - The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (1937) - The Lord of the Rings (written 1937-49, published 1954-55) – The Fellowship of the Ring – The Two Towers – The Return of the King * Dorothy Parker (American, 1893-1967) - Complete Stories * Clark Ashton Smith (American, 1893-1961) - The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies (Weird Fiction from 1926-35) * Aldous Huxley (English, 1894-1963) Novels: - Brave New World (1932) - The Genius and Goddess (1955) - Island (1962) Essay collections: - The Perennial Philosophy (1945) - The Doors of Perception (1954) - Brave New World Revisited (1958) * F. Scott Fitzgerald (American, 1896-1940) - The Great Gatsby (1925) - Tender is the Night (1934) - The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection (Bruccoli Edit) * Betty Smith (American, 1896-1972) - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) * Joan Lindsay (Australian, 1896-1984) - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967) * John Dos Passos (American, 1896-1970) - U.S.A. trilogy (1938) 1. The 42nd Parallel (1930) 2. 1919 (1932) 3. The Big Money (1936) * William Faulkner (American, 1897-1962) - The Sound and the Fury (1929) - As I Lay Dying (1930) - Light in August (1932) - Absalom, Absalom! (1936) - Go Down, Moses (1942) (Go Down, Moses consists of seven interrelated short stories) - The Hamlet (1940) - The Town (1957) - The Mansion (1959) (The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion form the Snopes trilogy) - Collected Stories - Uncollected Stories See also: - The Portable Faulkner (1946), edited by Malcolm Cowley (Penguin Classics) (The Portable Faulkner was published at a time when Faulkner’s fading reputation put his work at risk of ultimately languishing in a state of almost criminal neglect, Cowley compiled this definitive sample of Faulkner’s work up to that point. As a result, Faulkner became a household name. Faulkner wrote in a letter to Cowley, “The job is splendid. Damn you to hell anyway. But even if I had beat you to the idea, mine wouldn’t have been this good. By God, I didn’t know myself what I had tried to do, and how much I had succeeded.” More info, and table of contents at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288779/the-portable-faulkner-by-william-faulkner/9780142437285/ * Georges Bataille (French, 1897-1962) - Story of the Eye (1928)- Literature and Evil (1957)- Eroticism (1957) * R. H. Blyth (English, 1898-1964) - Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics (1942) * Ernest Hemingway (American, 1899-1961) - The Sun Also Rises (1926)- A Farewell to Arms (1929) - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) - The Old Man and the Sea (1951) - The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Preface by the Author * Yasunari Kawabata (Japanese, 1899-1972) - Snow Country (1935) - The Master of Go (1951) - Thousand Cranes (1952)- The Sound of the Mountain (1954) - The Old Capital (1962) - Beauty and Sadness (1964) * Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-American, 1899-1977) - Lolita (1955) - Speak, Memory (originally published as short stories from 1936-51, extended edition published 1966) * Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine, 1899-1986) - A Universal History of Iniquity (1935) - Ficciones/Fictions (1944) - Labyrinths (1962) - The Aleph and Other Stories (1933-1969) * John Steinbeck (American, 1902-68) - Of Mice and Men (1937) - The Grapes of Wrath (1939) - East of Eden (1952) * Stevie Smith (English, 1902-71) - Selected Poems of Stevie Smith * George Orwell (English, 1903-50) - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) * John Wyndham (English, 1903-69) - The Day of the Triffids (1951) - The Chrysalids (1955) - Chocky (1968) * Nathanael West (American, 1903-40) The Collected Works of Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust (1939) - Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) * Joseph Campbell (American, 1904-87) - A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949) - Myths to Live By (1972) - The Power of Myth (1988)- Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal- Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor * Graham Greene (English, 1904-91) - The Power and the Glory (1940) - The Quiet American (1955) - Complete Short Stories (Penguin Classics) * Shunryū Suzuki (Japanese, 1904-71) - Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (1970) * Jean-Paul Sartre (French, 1905-80) - Nausea (1938) - No Exit and Three Other Plays (1944-48) * Clifford Odets (American, 1906-63) - Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays (1935-38) * Samuel Beckett (Irish, 1906-89) Short Stories: - More Pricks than Kicks (1934) Plays: - Waiting for Godot (1949) - Endgame (1957) - Krapp’s Last Tape (1958) - Happy Days (1961) Novels: - Watt (written in France during WWII, published 1953) - Three Novels 1. Molly (1951) 2. Malone Dies (1951) 3. The Unnameable (1953) * Daphne du Maurier (English, 1907-89) - Rebecca (1937) - The Birds and Other Stories (1952, collection originally published as The Apple Tree in the U.K. and as Kiss Me Again, Stranger in the U.S.) * W. H. Auden (English, 1907-73) - Collected Poems (Vintage) * Eudora Welty (American, 1909-2001) - The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty * Malcolm Lowry (English, 1909-57) - Under the Volcano (1947) * Wallace Stegner (American, 1909-93) - The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) - Angle of Repose (1971) - The Spectator Bird (1976) - Crossing to Safety (1987) - Collected Stories (1990) - On Teaching and Writing Fiction (1988) * Nelson Algren (American, 1909-81) - The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) - A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) * Paul Bowles (American expatriate in Tangier, 1910-99) - The Sheltering Sky (1949) * William Golding (English, 1911-93) - Lord of the Flies (1954) * Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan) (Irish, 1911-66) - The Third Policeman (completed in 1940, published in 1967) * Tennessee Williams (American, 1911-83) - The Glass Menagerie (1944) - A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) * John Cheever (American, 1912-82) - The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) - The Wapshot Scandal (1964) - Bullet Park (1969) - Falconer (1977) - Collected Stories * Northrop Frye (Canadian, 1912- 91) - Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) - Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society * Ralph Ellison (American, 1913-94) - Invisible Man (1952) * Albert Camus (French, 1913-60) - The Stranger (1942) [Ward translation] - The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) [O'Brien translation] * Robertson Davies (Canadian, 1913-95) - The Deptford Trilogy 1. Fifth Business (1970) 2. The Manticore (1972) 3. World of Wonders (1975) * Alfred Bester (American, 1913-87) Novels: - The Demolished Man (1953) - The Stars My Destination (1956) Short story: - Fondly Fahrenheit (1954) * Delmore Schwartz (American, 1913-66) - In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories * John Berryman (American, 1914-72) - The Dream Songs (1969) - Collected Poems, 1937-1971 * James Purdy (American, 1914-2009) - The Complete Short Stories * Bernard Malamud (American, 1914-86) - The Assistant (1957) - The Fixer (1966) - Dubin’s Lives (1979) - The Complete Stories (written 1940-84, collected 1997) * Saul Bellow (Canadian-American, 1915-2005) - The Adventures of Augie March (1953) - Seize the Day (1956) - Henderson the Rain King (1959) - Herzog (1964) - Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) - Humboldt’s Gift (1975) - The Dean’s December (1980) - Ravelstein (2000) - Collected Stories (2001) Non-fiction:- It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future (1994) - Saul Bellow: Letters, edited by Benjamin Taylor See also: - The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, by Zachary Leader- The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005, by Zachary Leader * Arthur Miller (American, 1915-2005) - Death of a Salesman (1949) - The Crucible (1953) * Alan Watts (English, 1915-73) - The Way of Zen (1957)- Nature, Man and Woman (1958)- The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966) * Shirley Jackson (American, 1916-65) - The Lottery and Other Stories (1959) - The Sundial (1958) - The Haunting of Hill House (1959) - We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) * Jack Vance (American, 1916-2013) - Tales of the Dying Earth (1950-84) * Carson McCullers (American, 1917-67) - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) - The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951 novella along with previously published short stories) * Anthony Burgess (English, 1917-93) - A Clockwork Orange (1962) - The Wanting Seed (1962) - Earthly Powers (1980) * Robert Bloch (American, 1917-94) - Psycho (1959) * Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Indian, 1918-2008) - Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation (1963) * J. D. Salinger (American, 1919-2010) - The Catcher in the Rye (1951) - Nine Stories (1953) - Franny and Zooey (1961) - Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963) See also:- Salinger, by David Shields * Iris Murdoch (Anglo-Irish, 1919-99) - Under the Net (1954) - The Bell (1958) - A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970) - The Black Prince (1973) - The Sea, The Sea (1978) * Oakley Hall (American, 1920-2008) - Warlock (1958) * Sloan Wilson (American, 1920-2003) - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) * Isaac Asimov (Russian American, 1920-92) - Foundation Originally published as a series of eight short stories, between 1942-50. These were later divided into what is now known as the Foundation Trilogy of novels: 1. Foundation (1951) 2. Foundation and Empire (1952) 3. Second Foundation (1953) - Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Volume 1 * Frank Herbert (American, 1920-86) The Great Dune Trilogy: - Dune (1965) - Dune Messiah (1969) - Children of Dune (1976) * Richard Adams (English, 1920-2016) - Watership Down (1972) * Timothy Leary (American, 1920-96) - The Psychedelic Experience (1964, with Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and Ralph Metzner) * Charles Bukowski (German-born American, 1920-94) - Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) - Post Office (1971) - Factotum (1975) - Ham on Rye (1982) - Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983) See also: Charles Bukowski: Autobiographer, Gender Critic, Iconoclast by David Charlson * James Jones (American, 1921-77) - From Here to Eternity (1951) * Alex Haley (American, 1921-92) - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) - Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) * Patricia Highsmith (American, 1921-95) - Strangers on a Train (1950) - The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan) (1952) republished as Carol in 1990 under Highsmith’s name. - The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) - Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966) - Ripley Under Ground (1970) - Ripley’s Game (1974) - The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) - Ripley Under Water (1991) - The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith * Stanislaw Lem (Polish, 1921-2006) - Solaris (1961) - Mortal Engines (1961) - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (1965) * Jack Kerouac (American, 1922-69) - On the Road (1957) - On the Road: The Original Scroll - The Dharma Bums (1958) - Big Sur (1962) - Desolation Angels (1965) * Kurt Vonnegut (American, 1922-2007) - Cat’s Cradle (1963) - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1964)- Welcome to the Monkey House (Short Story Collection) (1968) - Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - Breakfast of Champions (1973) * William Gaddis (American, 1922-98) - The Recognitions (1955) - JR (1975) See also: - Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis, by Joseph Tabbi * Kingsley Amis (English, 1922-95) - Lucky Jim (1954) - The Green Man (1969) - Collected Short Stories (1980) - The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage (1997) * John Williams (American, 1922-94) - Stoner (1965) * Philip Larkin (English, 1922-85) - The Complete Poems * Howard Zinn (American, 1922-2010) - A People’s History of the United States (1980) * Joseph Heller (American, 1923-99) - Catch-22 (1961) * Italo Calvino (Italian, 1923-85) - Invisible Cities (1972) - If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979) - Why Read the Classics? (1991) [Weaver translations] * Norman Mailer (American, 1923-2007) - The Executioner’s Song (1979) * William H. Gass (American, 1924- ) - The Tunnel (1995) * Kōbō Abe (Japanese, 1924-93) - The Woman in the Dunes (1962)- The Face of Another (1964)- The Ruined Map (1967) - The Box Man (1973) * Truman Capote (American, 1924-84) - In Cold Blood (1966) - The Complete Stories of Truman Capote - A Capote Reader (Penguin Modern Classics) See also: - Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton * James Baldwin (American, 1924-87) - Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) - Notes of a Native Son (1955) - The Fire Next Time (1963) * Yukio Mishima (Japanese, 1925-70) - Confessions of a Mask (1949)- The Sound of Waves (1954) - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (1956)- After the Banquet (1960) - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) - The Sea of Fertility tetralogy (written 1965-70): 1. Spring Snow (1965) 2. Runaway Horses (1969) 3. The Temple of Dawn (1970) 4. The Decay of the Angel (1971) See also:Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima, by Naoki Inose * Flannery O'Connor (American, 1925-64) Novels: - Wise Blood (1952) - The Violent Bear It Away (1960) Short Story Collections: - A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955) - Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) - The Complete Stories (1971) * Robert Cormier (American, 1925-2000) - The Chocolate War (1974) - I Am the Cheese (1977) - Beyond the Chocolate War (1985) - We All Fall Down (1991) * Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russian, 1925-91 and 1933-2012, respectively) - Roadside Picnic (1971) (Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film Stalker is loosely based on Roadside Picnic, and the Strugatsky brothers wrote the screenplay) * Malcolm X (American, 1925-65) - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) (coauthor: Alex Haley) * Harper Lee (American, 1926-2016) - To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) * John Knowles (American, 1926-2001) - A Separate Peace (1959) * John Fowles (English, 1926-2005) - The Collector (1963) - The Magus (1965) - The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) - The Ebony Tower (1974) - Daniel Martin (1977) - Mantissa (1982) - A Maggot (1985) * Richard Yates (American, 1926-92) - Revolutionary Road (1961) - Disturbing the Peace (1975) - The Easter Parade (1976) - A Good School (1978) - The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (2001) * Daniel Keyes (American, 1927-2014) - Flowers for Algernon (1958 short story, 1966 novel) * John Ashbery (American, 1927- ) - Selected Poems * Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian, 1927-2014) - One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) [Rabassa translation] * David Markson (American, 1927-2010) - Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988) See also: - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein - The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Foster Wallace * Maya Angelou (American, 1928-2014) - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) * Cynthia Ozick (American, 1928- ) - The Puttermesser Papers (1997) - Foreign Bodies (2010) - Collected Stories - What Henry James Knew & Other Essays on Writers (1993) * Alan Sillitoe (English, 1928-2010) - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959) * Anne Sexton (American, 1928-74) - The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton * Hubert Selby, Jr. (American, 1928-2004) - Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) - Requiem for a Dream (1978) * William Kennedy (American, 1928- ) The Albany Cycle - An Albany Trio 1. Legs (1975) 2. Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game (1978) 3. Ironweed (1983) - Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2012) * Robert M. Pirsig (American, 1928- ) - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) - Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991) * Philip K. Dick (American, 1928-82) - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) - Ubik (1969) - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974) - A Scanner Darkly (1977) - Valis (1981) * Andy Warhol (American, 1928-87) - The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again (1975) * Milan Kundera (Czech-born French, 1929- ) - The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) - The Art of the Novel (1986) * Norton Juster (American, 1929- ) - The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) * J. G. Ballard (English, 1930-2009) - The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) - Crash (1973) - High-Rise (1975) - The Unlimited Dream Company (1979) - Super-Cannes (2000) - The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006) - The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 (2006) * John Barth (American, 1930- ) - The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) - Lost in the Funhouse (1968) * Chinua Achebe (Nigerian, 1930-2013) - The African Trilogy 1. Things Fall Apart (1958) 2. Arrow of God (1964) 3. No Longer At Ease (1960) - A Man of the People (1966) * Harold Pinter (English, 1930-2008) Plays: - The Birthday Party (1957) - The Homecoming (1964) - Betrayal (1978) * Harold Bloom (American, 1930- ) - The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973) - The Book of J. (1990) - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994) - Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998) - How to Read and Why (2000) - Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2003) - Novelists and Novels: A Collection of Critical Essays (2007) - The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (2011) - The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible (2011) - The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime (2015) * Toni Morrison (American, 1931- ) - The Bluest Eye (1970) - Sula (1973) - Song of Solomon (1977) - Beloved (1987) * Ram Dass (American, born Richard Alpert, 1931- ) - The Psychedelic Experience (1964, with Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner) - Be Here Now (1971) * Donald Barthelme (American, 1931-89) - Sixty Stories (1981 collection of stories originally published 1964-79) - Forty Stories (1987 collection of stories originally published 1964-76) * Colin Wilson (English, 1931-2013) Non-fiction - The Outsider (1954)- The Occult: A History (1971)- From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996) Fiction:- The Mind Parasites (1967)- The Philosopher's Stone (1969) * Tom Wolfe (American, 1931- ) - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) - The Right Stuff (1979) * E. L. Doctorow (American, 1931-2015) - The Book of Daniel (1971) - Ragtime (1975) - Billy Bathgate (1989) * John Updike (American, 1932-2009) - Rabbit, Run (1960) - The Centaur (1963) - Rabbit Redux (1971) - Rabbit is Rich (1981) - Rabbit at Rest (1990) - The Early Stories: 1953-1975 * Robert Coover (American, 1932- ) - The Origin of the Brunists (1966)- The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968)- The Public Burning (1977)- Spanking the Maid (1982)- Briar Rose (1996)- Ghost Town (1998) * Daniel Quinn (American, 1932- ) - Ishmael (1992) * Tom Robbins (American, 1932- ) - Jitterbug Perfume (1984) * Cormac McCarthy (American, 1933- ) - Blood Meridian (1985) - The Border Trilogy: 1. All the Pretty Horses (1992) 2. The Crossing (1994) 3. Cities of the Plain (1998) - No Country for Old Men (2005) - The Road (2006) * Philip Roth (American, 1933- ) - Goodbye, Columbus (1959) - Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) - Sabbath’s Theater (1995) - The American Trilogy: 1. American Pastoral (1997) 2. I Married a Communist (1998) 3. The Human Stain (2000) - Nemesis (2010) * Jerzy Kosiński (Polish-American, 1933-91) - The Painted Bird (1965) - Steps (1968) - Being There (1970) (Kosiński also wrote the screenplay for Hal Ashby’s 1979 film adaptation of Being There, starring Peter Sellers) * Susan Sontag (American, 1933-2004) - On Photography (1977) * Joan Didion (American, 1934- ) Fiction: - Play It as It Lays (1970) Nonfiction: - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) - The White Album (1979) * Carl Sagan (American, 1934-1996) - Cosmos (1980) - see Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980), the 13-epsiode TV series that the book is based on - Pale Blue Dot (1994) * Vincent Bugliosi (American, 1934-2015) - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (1974) - And the Sea Will Tell (1991) * Kenzaburō Ōe (Japanese, 1935- ) Novels: - Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958) - A Personal Matter (1965) - The Silent Cry (1967) Short story collection: - Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977) * Ken Kesey (American, 1935-2001) - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) - Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) * Richard Brautigan (American, 1935-84) Fiction: - Trout Fishing in America (1967) - In Watermelon Sugar (1968) - Revenge of the Lawn (1971) - The Abortion (1971) - So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away (1982) Poetry: - The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1969) * Larry McMurtry (American, 1936- ) - The Last Picture Show (1966) * Paul Zindel (American, 1936-2003) - The Pigman (1968) * A. S. Byatt (English, 1936- ) - Possession: A Romance (1990) - Little Black Book of Stories (2003) * Don DeLillo (American, 1936- ) - White Noise (1985) - Libra (1988) - Mao II (1992) - Underworld (1998) * Thomas Pynchon (American, 1937- ) - V. (1963) - Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) - Mason & Dixon (1997) - Against the Day (2006) See also: - A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel, 2nd Edition, by Steven Weisenburger - The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow to Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, by Stefano Ercolino Note: Pynchon dedicated G’s R to Richard Fariña - see below: * Richard Fariña (American, 1937-66) - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1966) * John Kennedy Toole (American, 1937-69) - A Confederacy of Dunces (completed 1964, published 1980) * Hunter S. Thompson (American, 1937-2005) - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971) * Joyce Carol Oates (American, 1938- ) Short story collections: - High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 - Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) - The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) Novels: - Blonde (2000) * Raymond Carver (American, 1938-88) Short story collections: - Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) - Where I’m Calling From: Selected Stories (1988) - Collected Stories (2009) - complete short fiction including Beginners * W. Timothy Gallwey (American, 1938- ) - The Inner Game of Tennis (1974) * Jean Giraud (French, 1938-2012) a.k.a. “Moebius” Graphic novels/comic book series: - Blueberry (1965-2007) - Arzach (1976) - The Long Tomorrow (1976) - The Airtight Garage (1976-80) - The Incal (1981-88, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky) - The World of Edena (1985-2001) * Margaret Atwood (Canadian, 1939- ) - The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) - Cat’s Eye (1988) * Angela Carter (English, 1940-92) - The Magic Toyshop (1967) - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) - Nights at the Circus (1984) - Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (1995) * J. M. Coetzee (South African, 1940- ) - Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) - Disgrace (1999) - Here and Now: Letters 2008-2011 (a collection of letters exchanged with Paul Auster) - The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, with Arabella Kurtz (2015) * Bob Dylan (American, 1941- ) - Chronicles: Volume One (2004) See also: - Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews, edited by Jonathan Cott - Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña by David Hajdu - Judas!: From Forest Hills to the Free Trade Hall: A Historical View of Dylan’s Big Boo by Clinton Heylin - Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan by Andrew McCarron * Stephen Hawking (English, 1942- ) - A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) * Sam Shepard (American, 1943- ) Sam Shepard: Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West) (1984) Shepard is also an actor- Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983 adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book of the same title), and Robert Rayburn aka “Papa Ray” in the 2015 Netflix series, Bloodline * Alice Walker (American, 1944- ) - The Color Purple (1982) * Katherine Dunn (American, 1945-2016) - Geek Love (1989) * Patti Smith (American, 1946- ) - Just Kids (2010) * David Lynch (American, 1946- ) - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (2006) * Keri Hulme (New Zealand, 1947- ) - The Bone People (1985) * Salman Rushdie (British Indian, 1947- ) - The Satanic Verses (1988) - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) * Paul Auster (American, 1947- ) - The New York Trilogy (1987) - Moon Palace (1989) - The Music of Chance (1990) - The Brooklyn Follies (2005) * Lydia Davis (American, 1947- ) - The End of the Story (1994) - The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009) - Can’t and Won’t: Stories (2014) * Francine Prose (American, 1947- ) - Reading Like a Writer (2006) - Mister Monkey (2016) * Stephen King (American, 1947- ) - Carrie (1974)- The Shining (1977) - The Stand (1978)- The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)- It (1986)- Misery (1987)- The Green Mile (1996) - On Writing (2000) - Doctor Sleep (2013) * S. E. Hinton (American, 1948- ) - The Outsiders (1967) * Ian McEwan (English, 1948- ) - In Between the Sheets (Short story collection) (1978) - Atonement (novel) (2001) * Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo, 1948- ) - Ceremony (1977) * Azar Nafisi (Iranian American, 1948- ) - Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) - Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter (2008) - The Republic of Imagination: A Life in Books (2014) * Lester Bangs (American, 1948-82) - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung * George R. R. Martin (American, 1948- ) - A Song of Ice and Fire 1. A Game of Thrones (1996) 2. A Clash of Kings (1998) 3. A Storm of Swords (2000) 4. A Feast for Crows (2005) 5. A Dance with Dragons (2011) 6. The Winds of Winter 7. A Dream of Spring * Haruki Murakami (Japanese, 1949- ) Novels: - A Wild Sheep Chase (1982) - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985) - Norwegian Wood (1987) - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-5) - Kafka on the Shore (2002) - After Dark (2004) - 1Q84 (2009-10) - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Endless Pilgrimage (2013) Short story collections: - The Elephant Vanishes (17 stories, 1980-91) - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (24 stories, 1980-2005) - Birthday Stories (an anthology of stories featuring birthdays, by various authors including Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, and Murakami himself) (2002) See also: The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Matthew Carl Stretcher * Martin Amis (Welsh, 1949- ) - London Fields (1989) - The Pregnant Widow (2010) - The Zone of Interest (2014) * Bob Roth (American, 1950- ) - Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation (2018) * Amy Hempel (American, 1951- ) - The Collected Stories (1985-2005) * Breece D'J Pancake (American, 1952-79) - The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake * Geoff Nicholson (British, 1953- ) - Everything and More (1994) * Alan Moore (English, 1953- ) - Watchmen (1987) (Graphic novel illustrated by Dave Gibbons) * Roberto Bolaño (Chilean, 1953-2003) - 2666 (2004) * Kazuo Ishiguro (British, 1954- ) - Never Let Me Go (2005) - The Buried Giant (2015) * Hanif Kureishi (British, 1954- ) - The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) * Iain Banks (Scottish, 1954-2013) - The Wasp Factory (1984) * Irvine Welsh (Scottish, 1957- ) - Trainspotting (1993) See also: - Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: A Reader’s Guide by Robert Morace * Jeanette Winterson (English, 1959- ) - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) - memoir * William T. Vollmann (American, 1959- ) - The Rainbow Stories (1989) - 13 Stories and 13 Epitaphs (1991) - The Royal Family (2000) * Jonathan Franzen (American, 1959- ) - The Corrections (2001) - Freedom (2010) - Purity (2015) * Neil Gaiman (English, 1960- ) - The Sandman (Graphic novel, various artists) * Rick Moody (American, 1961- ) - The Ice Storm (1994) - The Diviners (2005) - Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas (2007) - Hotels of North America (2015) * Daniel Clowes (American, 1961- ) Graphic Novels/ Comics: - Ghost World (1997) - Wilson (2010) - Mister Wonderful (2011) Screenplays: - Ghost World (2001) - Art School Confidential (2008) - Wilson (2017) * Jennifer Egan (American, 1962- ) - A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)- Manhattan Beach (2017) * David Foster Wallace (American, 1962-2008) Novels: - The Broom of the System (1987) - Infinite Jest (1996) - The Pale King (unfinished, published 2011) Short story collections: - Girl with Curious Hair (1989) - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) - Oblivion (2004) Nonfiction: - A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (1997) - Consider the Lobster (2005) - Both Flesh and Not (2012) See also: - David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide, by Stephen Burn - Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, by Greg Carlisle- Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky - Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, by D. T. Max * Peter Hedges (American, 1962- ) - What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1991) * JT Leroy, literary persona created by Laura Albert (American, 1965- ) - Sarah (1999) - The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (1999) * Mark Z. Danielewski (American, 1966- ) - House of Leaves (2000) - Only Revolutions (2006) * Ian F. Svenonius (American, 1968- ) - The Psychic Soviet (2006) - Super-Natural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group (2013) * Junot Díaz (Dominican American, 1968- ) - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) * Stephen Chbosky (American, 1970- ) - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) * Zadie Smith (English, 1975- ) - White Teeth (2000) - The Autograph Man (2002) * Eimear McBride (Irish, 1976- ) - A Girl is a Half-formed Thing (written 2004, published 2013) * Chen Chen (American, 1989- ) - When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017) * Anthologies: Penguin Classics: - The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: From Washington Irving to Lydia Davis - The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan - The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: From P. G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith - The Penguin Book of American Short Stories - The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories - The Penguin Book of English Short Stories - The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories- The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories - The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce - American Supernatural Tales- The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry - Roots of Yoga- Roots of Ayurveda- Hippocratic Writings- Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann - The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories- The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories Oxford World's Classics:- Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others- Late Victorian Gothic Tales - Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-De-Siecle - The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (editor: Tobias Wolff) - The Art of the Short Story: 52 Great Authors, Their Best Short Fiction, and Their Insights on Writing - The Best American Short Stories of the Century (editor: John Updike) - That Glimpse of Truth: The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written - The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories - The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: 1929-1964 - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A: Novellas - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B: Novellas * See also: The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books by J. Peder Zane - A funny article about the book: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time by Lev Grossman http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1578073,00.html Top 10 books from all of the book’s featured writers’ respective lists: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov Middlemarch by George Eliot

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Alfred de Musset est né le 11 décembre 1810 à Paris, France dans une famille de classe supérieure mais pas riches. Pendant son enfance, son père a travaillé dans des divers postes gouvernementaux mais il n’a jamais donné d’argent à son fils. À un jeune âge, Alfred a découvert ses compétences d’improvisation, il a joué des divers rôles dans des petites pièces sur des histoires d’amour qu’il avait lu. Avant de poursuivre une carrière dans l’écriture, il a tenté d’avoir un carrière en medicine, en droit, en dessin et en anglais. Avec l’aide de Paul Foucher, (le beau-frère de Victor Hugo) Alfred est allé au Cénacle romantique en 1828 et était sous l’influence des quelques-uns des chefs du mouvement romantique car il a attiré l’attention de Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny et Charles Nodier. Après l'échec de sa pièce « La Nuit Vénitienne » en 1830, il a refusé de permettre aucun production d'autres de ses pièces, mais en même temps il a continué de publier des tragédies historiques. Alfred de Musset, est devenu l’un des premières écrivains romantiques avec son premier collection de poèmes, « Contes d’Espagne et d’Italie » qui a été publié entre 1833-1835. Alfred avait une relation amoureuse avec George Sand, il a écrit à propos de leur relation dans son roman autobiographique, « La confession d'un enfant du siècle » qui a été publié en 1836. Le 24 avril 1845, il a reçu La Légion D’honneur en même temps que Balzac et a été élu à l'Académie française en 1852. Alfred de Musset est décédé le 2 mai 1857 en raison d’une insuffisance cardiaque. Alfred de Musset reste comme un poète bien connu pour ses poèmes romantiques, un dramaturge très célèbre pour ses pièces de théâtre et un écriture pour ses romans qui ont aide à influencer le mouvement romantique du 19ieme siècle.

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1 Malala Yousafzai ( née en 1997) Malala Yousafzai est une activiste pakistanaise. Elle est le symbole  de la lutte pour l'éducation des filles et contre la violence des talibans. A l'âge de 17 ans, pour son engagement, elle reçoit le prix Nobel de la paix, ce qui en fait la plus jeune lauréate de l'histoire de  ce prix. 2 Rosa Park (1913-2005) Rosa Park est une figure emblématique de la lutte contre la ségrégation raciale aux Etats-Unis. Elle est devenue célèbre en 1955 en  refusant de céder sa place à un blanc dans un autobus. 3 Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) Simone de Beauvoir est une philosophe française. Elle est considérée comme une théoricienne du féminisme en rupture avec l'essentialisme naturalisant de la condition féminine. 4 Jeanne d'Arc ( 1412-1431) Jeanne d'Arc est un personnage   de l'histoire de France, chef de guerre,  Sainte de l'église catholique et l'une des personnalités les plus connues du Moyen-Age pour son charisme, sa jeunesse et ses prédictions. Elle délivre la France de l'occupation anglaise du siège d'Orléans, lors de la guerre de cent ans. 5 Jeanne Goodall (née en 1934) Jane Goodhall est une primatologue et ethnologue britannique. Elle est la première à découvrir que les chimpanzés utilisent des outils pour s'alimenter. 6 Amélia Mary Earhart ( 1897-1937) Amélia Earhart est la première femme  à avoir traversé l'océan atlantique en avion  puis  la première à l'avoir traversé en solitaire. 7 Katherine Switzer ( née en 1947) Katherine Switzer est une écrivaine et coureuse de marathon américaine. Elle est la première femme à avoir été enregistrée au marathon de Boston qui, jusque là, était interdit aux femmes. Au milieu de la course, les organisateurs ont voulu l'empêcher de poursuivre sa course par la force, en vain. 8 Valentina Terechcova (née en 1937) Valentina Terechcova est la permière cosmonaute soviétique,  la première femme à avoir effectué un vol dans l'espace et la seule  à l'avoir fait en solitaire à ce jour. Agée à l'époque de 26 ans, elle est également la plus jeune femme à avoir réalisé un vol dans l'espace 9 Maud Stevens Wagner ( 1927-1961) Maud Wagner est une artiste de cirque américaine. Elle est connue pour être  la première femme   tatoueuse des Etats-Unis. L'exhibition de son corps totalement tatoué a complété ses numéros d'acrobatie et de voltige. 10 Simone Veil ( 1927-2017) Simone Veil est une femme politique française. La loi qui autorise l'IVG porte son nom.  Par son parcours personnel ( elle est déportée à Auschwitz à 16 ans durant la shoah) elle est considérée comme promotrice de la réconciliation franco-allemande. Son courage, son humanisme et la force de son caratère en font une des personnalités les plus respectées des Français. Sous différents gouvernements elle a occupé quatre ministères,   elle est élue au parlement européen pour la première fois au suffrage universel . Elle est élue à l'académie française.

11 Anne-France Dautheville ( née en 1944) Anne-France Dautheville est la première femme à avoir fait le tour du monde à moto. Après qu'on aie mis en cause ses capacités lors de son premier raid en 1972, elle décide alors de partir seule. Parmi ses périples,  un tour de l'Autralie et de l' Amérique Latine. Elle a publié ses récits dans plusieurs  livres et sur les ondes de France Inter.

12 Nelly Bly (1864-1922) Nelly Bly est une pionnière dans le journalisme clandestin qu'elle initie  en se faisant interner dix jours dans un asile psychiatrique.Par ailleurs, elle a réalisé un tour du monde en 72 jours. 13 Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) Indira Gandhi est la deuxième femme à être élue démocratiquement à la tête d'un gouvernement. Elle aligne le développement de l'Inde sur le modèle socialiste et mène son pays à la tête de la première puissance nucléaire des pays du Tiers-Monde. 14 Gertrude Ederle  1905-2003) Gertrude Ederle est la première femme a avoir effectué la traversée de la Manche à la nage au bout de 14 heures et 39 minutes en 1926. 15 Une amazone Née dans l'antiquité, la légende des Amazones se retrouve dans les quatre continents . Elle correspond à des peuples de femmes  guerrières. Selon la mythologie, celles-ci se seraient créées comme armée de résistance, au moment du "grand renversement",  passage  de l'âge d'or des premières sociétés matriarcales aux sociétés patriarcales sur la quasi-totalité du globe terrestre.

16 Claire Gibault ( née 1945) Claire Gibault est la première femme chef d'orchestre. Elle a obtenu plusieurs premiers prix dont celui de direction d 'orchestre. En trente ans de carrière, elle a dirigé plusieurs orchestres philharmoniques européens et américains. Elle est, par ailleurs, députée européenne. 17 Kate Bush (née en 1958) Kate Bush est une artiste britannique. Elle cumule de nombreux records,  comme celui d'être la première et seule femme auteure-compositrice-interprète à atteindre le sommet des classements au Royaume-Unis et aux Etats-Unis alors qu'elle n'a que 19 ans. Elle est considérée comme une icône vivante.

18 Agatha Christie ( 1890-1976) Avec  53 romans, 87 nouvelles, racontant les aventures de 11 héros différents, l'adaptation de 20 films et de 100 téléfilms , Agatha Christie est l'un des écrivains Anglo-saxons de romans policiers les  plus importants, les plus novateurs et les plus lus  après William Shakespeare. 19 Mélanie Bonnis ( 1858-1937) Mel Bonnis est une compositrice française. Après 22 ans de carrière, Mel Bonnis laisse une oeuvre de près de 300 pièces encore en cours d'édition ou de réédition. En comparaison Mozart en avait composées 600 et beethoven 500 inachevées.

20 Germaine Taillefer (1892-1983)

Germaine Taillefer est une compositrice française. Condisciple de Claude Debussy, elle a été l'élève de Maurice Ravel , et membre du  "groupe des six" , un groupe de compositeurs français qui réagissait contre le Wagnérisme et l'impressionnisme. Ce collectif  a  été très influencé par Erick Satie qui  déclare germaine Taillefer comme "   sa soeur en musique",  ainsi que  par la poésie de Jean-Cocteau qui se considère comme le porte-parole du sextuor. Son oeuvre est composée de six catalogues. 21 Louise Michel (1830-1905) Louise Michel est une institutrice, militante anarchiste et figure emblématique de la Commune de Paris. Elle est la première à populariser le drapeau noir dans le mouvement libertaire. 22 Florence Artaud ( 1957-2015) Florence Artaud est une navigatrice française. En 1990 elle bat le record de la traversée de l'atlantique nord à la voile et en solitaire et elle est la première femme à être sortie victorieuse de la route du Rhum.

23 Madonna Louise Ciccone  ( 1958) Madonna Louise Ciccone est une artiste et femme d'affaire américaine. Arrivée à New-York avec 35 dollars en poche alors que sa tournée  2008-2009 est   considérée comme la plus lucrative de tous les temps pour un artiste solo, elle incarne ainsi le mythe américain de la self-made-woman, parvenue aux sommets à partir de rien, par sa seule volonté. 24 Hélène Boucher ( 1908-1934) Hélène Boucher est une aviatrice française. Elle a battu de nombreux records de vitesses masculins et féminins. Elle s'est spécialisée dans le looping , c'est-à-dire l'acrobatie aérienne. 25 Georges Sand ( 1804-1876) Georges Sand est un écrivain français. Elle a la particularité d'avoir pendant toute sa carrière adopté un nom et des vêtements d'homme. Elle est la seule dont les critiques acceptaient de parler au masculin et qui a été  classée parmi les "auteurs"  au même titre que Balzac ou Hugo. Avec 70 romans et cinquante volumes d'oeuvres diverses elle fait partie des écrivains les plus prolifiques.

26 Camille Claudel ( 1864-1943) Camille Claudel est une sculptrice française. Son art s'apparente à l'art nouveau . Son génie vise à saisir une science des attitudes et le vécu d'un geste dans l'instensité de l'instant. Elle vit longtemps sous l'emprise du sculpteur Auguste Rodin et elle connaît des troubles psychiatriques dus à cette relation. Elle a été internée trente ans, et ce,  jusqu'à sa mort dans un asile. 27 Marie Curie ( 1867-1934) Avec son mari elle étudie les radiations radioactives sur la base des radiations de Bequerel . Ils découvrent ainsi le radium et le polonium, 900 et 400 fois plus radioactifs que l'uranium. Elle est la première femme à avoir reçu le prix Nobel et la seule femme à en avoir reçu deux. 28 Gabrielle Chasnel dite Coco Chanel (1883-1971) Gabrielle Chasnel dite Coco Chanel. Elle commence à fabriquer des chapeaux et débarrasse la mode des froufrous volumineux de l'époque. Elle veut libérer le corps de la femme, lance la tendance des cheveux courts et   le style simple et pratique de la garçonne (tailleurs, pantalons, jupe courte). 29 Margareth Hamilton ( née en  1936) Margareth Hamilton est une informaticienne à la tête de l'équipe qui développa le logiciel de vol pour les missions Apollo de la NASA pour la prise en charge de la navigation et l'aterrissage sur la Lune. Sans son travail l'homme n'aurait jamais foulé le sol lunaire. 30 La Reine Hatchepsout ( entre 1478 et 1458 avant Jésus-Christ) La reine Hatchepsout fut l'un des plus grands pharaons à avoir régné et la femme de l'histoire la plus puissante dont nous ayons connaissance. A 25 ans, elle est la première souveraine de l'humanité. Elle assoit sa postérité en développant le commerce, en initiant une renaissane architecturale, en organisant des expéditions scientifiques à l'étranger et en menant à une longue période de paix d'où son image de   "souveraine éclairée". Un manga japonais lui a été dédié. 31 Rosalind Elsie Frankin (1920-1958 ) Rosalind Frankin est une biologiste britannique. Elle a participé de manière déterminante à la découverte de la structure en double hélice de l'ADN. Rosalind Franklin, elle est  la grande oubliée du prix Nobel ( tout comme sept autres chercheuses)  et l'exemple parfait du travail féminin non reconnu.   32 Alice Guy ( 1873-1968) Alice Guy est la première femme cinéaste de l'histoire du cinéma. Elle réalise son premier   film en 1896 qui est aussi le premier film de fiction au monde. Elle a fondé sa propre maison de production aux Etats-Unis la Solax Film qui devient la plus grande maison de production juste avant la naissance d'Hollywood. Elle a créé plus de 600 films jusqu'en 1920 allant du western au fantastique. 33 Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941) Virginia Woolf est une femme de lettres anglaise. Elle est considérée comme une des romancières les plus novatrices dans la langue anglaise en développant la psychologie de ses personnages et en ayant exploré des possibilités de narration morcelée. 34 Olympes de Gouges ( 1748-1793) Olympe de Gouges est une femme de lettres et une femme politique française. Abolitioniste, elle est également considérée comme la première féministe de l'histoire avec sa "Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne". 35 Barbara ( 1930-1997) Barbara est une auteure-compositrice-interprétète française. Les textes, la voix, la personnalité  et la musique de Barbara évoquent une émotion et une sensibilité  très fortes, mystérieuses et très particulières. Elle laisse une empreinte remarquable dans la chanson française. 36 Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017) Maryam Mirzakhani est une  mathématicienne iranienne. Elle est la seule femme à avoir reçu la médaille Fields  ( équivalent du prix Nobel) pour avoir mis en relation plusieurs disciplines mathématiques sur la base de son étude sur les surfaces de Riemann. 37 Frida Kahlo ( 1907-1954) Frida Kahlo est une artiste peintre mexicaine. Blessée au cours  d'un accident de circulation, elle portera des corsets qui sont à l'origine de nombreux autoportraits. Sa forte personnalité et la crudité de ses tableaux divisent l'opinion au sujet de son oeuvre, plutôt inclassable. 38 Françoise Barré Sinoussi ( née en 1947) Françoise Barré-Sinoussi est une chercheuse française en virologie. Elle a reçu le prix  Nobel pour la découverte du VIH. Elle est présidente  de la première société indépendante de chercheurs contre le VIH. 39 François Héritier ( 1933-2017) Françoise Héritier est une anthropologue et ethnologue française. Elle a succédé à Claude Levi-Straus qui voyait en elle son seul successeur. Elle est considérée comme une des plus grandes intellectuelles françaises et a constribué à la création de la chaîne Arte. 40 Catherine Vidal (née en  1951) Catherine Vidal est une neurobiologiste française et directrice de recherche à l'institut Pasteur. Elle est l'auteure de plusieurs ouvrages sur la plasticité cérébrale qui remettent en question le déterminisme biologique. 41 Miss Tic ( née en 1956) Miss tic est une artiste française qui a utilisé le graffiti comme moyen d'expression en peignant des autoportraits avec ses poèmes en épigrammes. Elle parvient ensuite à se défaire de la marginalité de la rue pour évoluer vers une pratique artistique reconnue avec la publication de recueils de ses oeuvres et une bonne cinquantaine d'expositions. 42 Claire Brétécher ( née en 1940) Claire Brétécher est une auteure de bande-dessinée humoristique française. Elle est la seule femme a avoir participé à la revue Pilote. Elle a co-fondé l'Echo des Savanes, s'est fait connaître en collaborant avec le Nouvel Observateur. Ses oeuvres telles que "Les Frustrés" et "Agrippine" en font une pionnière de la critique sociale. 43 Juliette ( née en 1962) Juliette est une parolière, compositrice et  chanteuse française. Après plus de 25 ans de  carrière et plus de onze albums, elle fait partie des   figures du paysage musical français. Elle se décrit comme " une artisane de la chanson" et témoigne d'un humour et d'un esprit critique dévastateurs tout en ayant pu rester libre. 44 Golda Meir  (1898-1978) Golda Meir est une femme politique israëlienne qui a occupé les fonctions de ministre puis de premier ministre en Israël, 3eme femme a accéder à ce niveau de responsabilité dans le monde. Elle fait partie des 24 signataires de l'indépendance de l'état d'Israël en 1948. 45 Nicki de Saint-Phalle ( 1930-2002) Nicki de Saint Phalle est une plasticienne et sculptrice française. Elle se fait connaître par les "tirs", des performances où l'artiste tire à la carabine sur des poches de peinture,  et ses sculptures monumentales. C'est à 22 ans, lorsqu'elle est hopsitalisée en hôpital psychiatrique pour une grave dépression, qu'elle commence son oeuvre. 46 Emilie du Châtelet ( 1706-1749) Emilie du Châtelet est une femme de lettres et de sciences française. Elle est connue pour avoir traduit  l'oeuvre de Newton et à avoir fait connaître celle du physicien Leibniz. Elle a entretenu une liaison de quinze ans avec le philosophe Voltaire. 47 Daphné du Maurier ( 1907-1989) Daphné du Maurier est une romancière britannique. Ses romans au supense psychologique et criminel ont inspirés des films d'Alfred Hitchcock comme Rebecca,  Les oiseaux ou l'Auberge de la Jamaïque. 48 Angela Davis ( née en 1944) Angela Davis est une militante afro-américaine une intellectuelle des plus radicales de son époque. Elle milite pour la condition afro-américaine en replaçant la notion de race dans un contexte marxiste de classe. Elle a été à deux reprises candidate à la vice-présidence des Etats-Unis mais aussi la femme la plus recherchée par le FBI. 49 Alexandra David Néel (  1868-1969) Alexandra David Néel est une exploratrice  française. Elle a effectué deux périples d'envergure, le premier Indo-tibétain de 14 ans, l'autre,  en Chine,de neuf ans. Elle est la première européene à séjourner à Lhassa , la ville sainte et capitale du Tibet,  dont l'accès a été interdit pendant des annnées aux explorateurs. 50 Anne Bonny (née en 1700) Anne Bonny est  l'une des femmes pirates  les plus célèbres de l'histoire de l'humanité. En refusant de se soumettre comme ses co-équipiers, elle s'illustre par sa force de personnalité tout comme le fut son compagnon le pirate Jack Rackam qui a inspiré l'auteur de bande-dessiné Hergé.

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Pierre-Jean David (Mar 12, 1788 – Jan 4, 1856) was a French sculptor and medallist. He adopted the name David d’Angers, following his entry into the studio of the painter Jacques-Louis David in 1809 as a way of both expressing his patrimony and distinguishing himself from the master painter.

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He was born in Angers in 1788. His father was a wood carver and ornamental sculptor, who had joined the volunteer Republican army as a musketeer, fighting against the Chouans of La Vendée. He studied in the studio of Jean-Jacques Delusse and in 1808 traveled to Paris to study in the studio of Philippe-Laurent Roland. While in Paris he did work both on the Arc de Triomphe and the exterior of the Louvre. In 1810 he succeeded in taking the second place prize at the École des Beaux-Arts for his Othryades. In 1811 David’s La Douleur won the École’s competition for tête d’expression followed by his taking of the Prix de Rome for his Epaminondas in the same year. He spent five years in Rome, during which time he frequented the studio of Antonio Canova and made small trips around Italy to Venice, Naples and Florence.

Returning from Rome around the time of the restoration of the Bourbons and their accompanying foreign conquerors and returned royalists, David d’Angers would not remain in the neighborhood of the Tuileries, opting instead to travel to London. Here John Flaxman and others took him to task for the political sins of David the painter, to whom he was erroneously supposed to be related.

With great difficulty he made his way to Paris again, where a comparatively prosperous career opened before him. His medallions and busts were in much request, as well as orders for monumental works. One of the most famous of these was that of Gutenberg at Strassburg; but those he himself valued most were the statue of Barra (Joseph Bara), a drummer boy who purportedly continued to beat his drum until the moment of death in the war in La Vendée, and the monument to the Greek liberator Markos Botsaris.

David’s busts and medallions were very numerous, and among his sitters may be found not only the illustrious men and women of France, but many others both of England and Germany countries which he visited professionally in 1827 and 1829. His medallions number over 500.

David’s fame rests firmly on his pediment of the Pantheon, his marble Wounded Philopoemen in the Louvre and his equestrian monument to General Jacques-Nicolas Gobert in Père Lachaise Cemetery. In addition to that of Gobert, he did sculptures for seven other tombs at Père Lachaise, including the bronze busts of the writer, Honoré de Balzac and physician Samuel Hahnemann.

In the Musée David in Angers is an almost complete collection of his works either in the form of copies or in the original moulds. As an example of his benevolence of character may be mentioned his rushing off to the sickbed of Rouget de Lisle, the author of the Marseillaise Hymn, modelling and carving him in marble without delay, making a lottery of the work, and sending to the poet in the extremity of need the proceeds.

Of Reviving Greece, his monument to the Greek liberator Markos Botsaris, showing a Greek child reading his name, Victor Hugo said, “It is difficult to see anything more beautiful in the world; this statue joins the grandeur of Pheidias to the expressive manner of Puget.”

David d’Angers was originally published on HiSoUR Art Collection