Title:
Around the world in 80 books / David Damrosch.
ISBN:
9780593299883
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
xix, 412 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
London : Inventing a City -- Paris : Writers' Paradise -- Krakow : After Auschwitz -- Venice-Florence : Invisible cities -- Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat : Stories within stories -- Congo-Nigeria : (Post)Colonial encounters -- Israel/Palestine : Strangers in a strange land -- Tehran-Shiraz : A desertful of roses -- Calcutta/Kolkata : Rewriting empire -- Shanghai-Beijing : Journeys to the west -- Tokyo-Kyoto : The west of the east -- Brazil-Columbia : Utopias, dystopias, heterotopias -- Mexico-Guatemala : The Pope's blowgun -- Antilles and beyond : Fragments of epic memory -- Bar Harbor : the world on a desert island -- New York : Migrant metropolis.
Chapter one. London: Inventing a City : Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway ; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations ; Arthur Conan Doyle, Complete Sherlock Holmes ; P. G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh ; Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps -- Chapter two. Paris: Writers' Paradise : Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time ; Djuna Barnes, Nightwood ; Marguerite Duras, Lover ; Julio Cortazar, End of the Game ; Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood -- Chapter three. Krakow: After Auschwitz : Primo Levi, Periodic Table ; Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories ; Paul Celan, Poems ; Czeslaw Milosz, Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004 ; Olga Tokarczuk, Flights -- Chapter four. Venice-Florence: Invisible cities : Marco Polo, Travels ; Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy ; Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron ; Donna Leon, By Its Cover ; Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities -- Chapter five. Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat: Stories within stories : Love Songs of Ancient Egypt ; Thousand and One Nights ; Naguib Mahfouz, Arabian Nights and Days ; Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red ; Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies -- Chapter six. Congo-Nigeria: (Post)Colonial encounters : Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness ; Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart ; Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman ; Georges Ngal, Giambatista Viko, or The Rape of African Discourse ; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Thing Around Your Neck -- Chapter seven. Israel/Palestine: Strangers in a strange land : Hebrew Bible ; New Testament ; D. A. Mishani, Missing File ; Emile Habibi, Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist ; Mahmoud Darwish, Butterfly's Burden -- Chapter eight. Tehran-Shiraz: A desertful of roses : Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis ; Farid ud-Din Attar, Conference of the Birds ; Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz ; Ghalib, A Desertful of Roses ; Agha Shahid Ali, Call Me Ishmael Tonight -- Chapter nine. Calcutta/Kolkata: Rewriting empire : Rudyard Kipling, Kim ; Rabindranath Tagore, Home and the World ; Salman Rushdie, East, West ; Jamyang Norbu, Mandala of Sherlock Holmes ; Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies -- Chapter ten. Shanghai-Beijing: Journeys to the west : Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West ; Lu Xun, Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Stories ; Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City ; Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out ; Bei Dao, Rose of Time -- Chapter eleven. Tokyo-Kyoto: The west of the east : Higuchi Ichiyo, In the Shade of Spring Leaves ; Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji ; Matsuo Basho, Narrow Road to the Deep North ; Yukio Mishima, Sea of Fertility ; James Merrill, "Prose of Departure" -- Chapter twelve. Brazil-Columbia: Utopias, dystopias, heterotopias : Thomas More, Utopia ; Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism ; Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas ; Clarice Lispector, Family Ties ; Gabriel Garcià Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Chapter thirteen. Mexico-Guatemala: The Pope's blowgun : Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs ; Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life ; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Selected Works ; Miguel Angel Asturias, President ; Rosario Castellanos, Book of Lamentations -- Chapter fourteen. Antilles and beyond: Fragments of epic memory : Derek Walcott, Omeros ; James Joyce, Ulysses ; Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea ; Margaret Atwood, Penelopiad ; Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands -- Chapter fifteen. Bar Harbor: the world on a desert island : Robert McCloskey, One Morning in Maine ; Sarah Orne Jewett, Country of the Pointed Firs ; Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian ; Hugh Lofting, Voyages of Doctor Dolittle ; E. B. White, Stuart Little -- Chapter sixteen. New York: Migrant metropolis : Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time ; Saul Steinberg, Labyrinth ; James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son ; Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King ; J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings.
Summary:
"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize-winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle -- from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways." -- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1248688197
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