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From J.K. Rowling's love of Jane Austen to J.M. Coetzee, whose "top 10" includes Cervantes and Samuel Beckett, this irresistible companion for all passionate readers explores why "the canon" is for everyone "What makes a classic? For me, it's a book I can't imagine having lived without; a truthful, wholly imagined world, in astonishing language, by a writer unafraid to probe those things that scare us and scar us and make us human." --Charlotte Wood, author, The Submerged Cathedral Mark Twain defined a literary classic as "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." But what was true in the 19th century doesn't hold true today. In our uncertain modern times, not only do books considered classics still fill the shelves of many bookshops, but these books continue to exert a powerful influence on contemporary culture--some in obvious ways, such as the film and television adaptations of the works of Homer, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Henry James; other in less obvious ways, through their enduring impact on fellow writers, artists, and musicians. Offering many great contemporary authors' lists of their favorite classics, this accessible, impassioned, and inspiring guide to the great books of the past and why they still matter will be eagerly embraced and discussed by passionate and grateful readers.… (altro)
A collection of reviews. Gleeson-White has selected sixty-two great books, starting with The Iliad and ending with Midnight's Children. The book is of some use - I had never contemplated reading The Iliad, but might try it, and I know now to stay away from The Words to Say It and Blood Meridian. At first I was so irritated by Gleeson-White's style that I almost stopped reading. I shall allow the author to speak for herself. "From its disorienting, unsettling opening, never-before-seen sunglasses described as if they're from an alien world, Waiting for the Barbarians tells its unnerving, unpredictable, shocking story with the relentlessness of a drill driving towards the outer limits of the dark side of the imagination."
In her review of The Trial, Gleeson-White describes as Kafkaesque automated telephone-answering services and Ikea's multi-storey car park.
Gleeson-White drives relentlessly towards the banal. ( )
I think everybody has it in them to write a book like this, but wonderful nevertheless. It goes through the 'Western Canon' of literature, but tells the story of each novel it cites, as well as provides a contextual background for the work. Not only tracing the development of western literature by examining books the author loves, but provides a wonderful reading list for anybody who loves literature but feels they have a few holes in their knowledge. ( )
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I think that if we lose a sense of the past, we've lost much more than we can ever calculate. -- Norman Mailer
As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read it, and that is the definition of a classic. -- Carl F. Hovde on Moby-Dick
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For my parents, Judith and Michael Gleeson-White
In memory of my cousin Matthew Street, 1960-1980
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From J.K. Rowling's love of Jane Austen to J.M. Coetzee, whose "top 10" includes Cervantes and Samuel Beckett, this irresistible companion for all passionate readers explores why "the canon" is for everyone "What makes a classic? For me, it's a book I can't imagine having lived without; a truthful, wholly imagined world, in astonishing language, by a writer unafraid to probe those things that scare us and scar us and make us human." --Charlotte Wood, author, The Submerged Cathedral Mark Twain defined a literary classic as "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." But what was true in the 19th century doesn't hold true today. In our uncertain modern times, not only do books considered classics still fill the shelves of many bookshops, but these books continue to exert a powerful influence on contemporary culture--some in obvious ways, such as the film and television adaptations of the works of Homer, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Henry James; other in less obvious ways, through their enduring impact on fellow writers, artists, and musicians. Offering many great contemporary authors' lists of their favorite classics, this accessible, impassioned, and inspiring guide to the great books of the past and why they still matter will be eagerly embraced and discussed by passionate and grateful readers.
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In her review of The Trial, Gleeson-White describes as Kafkaesque automated telephone-answering services and Ikea's multi-storey car park.
Gleeson-White drives relentlessly towards the banal. (