The Armchair MA: World Literature
Below you’ll find a list of the works I hope to tackle, and links to my reviews where available!
- Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
- Honore de Balzac: Old Father Goriot
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron
- Albert Camus: The Stranger
- Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote
- Anton Chekhov: Thousand and One Nights, The Cherry Orchard
- Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Idiot, Crime and Punishment
- Euripides: Medea
- Gustave Flaubert: A Sentimental Education
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust
- Federico Garcia Lorca: Gypsy Ballads
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Anon: The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
- Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey
- Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Yasunari Kawabata: The Sound of the Mountain
- Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek
- Anon: Mahabharata
- Naguib Mahfouz: Children of Gebelawi
- Michel de Montaigne: Essays
- Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
- Ovid: Metamorphoses
- Jalalu’l-Din Rumi: The Mathnawi
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children
- Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
- Sophocles: Oedipus the King
- Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
- Virgil: The Aeneid
- Valmiki: Ramayana
- Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
- J.M. Coetzee: Waiting for the Barbarians
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Decolonizing the Mind
- Jamaica Kincaid: Annie John
- V.S. Naipaul: A Way in the World
- Derek Walcott: “A Far Cry from Africa”, “Names”, “The Sea is History”
- Wole Soyinka: Death and the King’s Horseman
- Maria Irene Fornes: Fefu and Her Friends
- Aeschylus: The Oresteia
- Bertolt Brecht: Man is Man
- Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge: “The Heat Bird”, “Nest”
