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Best Novels of Old Times
(since 1850 and only one per writer)
selected by piero scaruffi
1. Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
2. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
3. Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
4. Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
5. James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
6. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
7. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
8. Pynchon, Thomas: V
9. Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
10. Faulkner, William: Light in August
11. Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
12. Dostoevskij, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
13. Joyce, James: Ulysses
14. Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
15. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
16. Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
17. Gombrowicz: Pornography (1960)
18. Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace
19. Zola, Emile: Germinal (1885)
20. Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (1856)
21. Canetti: Autodafe (1935)
22. Balzac, Honore: Eugene Grandet (1833)
23. Jose, Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)
24. PerezGaldos, Benito: Nazarin (1895)
25. Svevo, Italo: Coscienza di Zeno (1923)
26. Goncarov, Ivan: Oblomov (1859)
27. Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
28. Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1985)
29. Carpentier, Alejo: "Lost Steps" (1953)
30. Pavese, Cesare: Luna e i falo' (1950)
31. Krasznahorkai, Laszlo: Satantango (1985)
32. Cortazar, Julio: Rayuela (1963)
33. Abe Kobo: Woman in the Dunes (1962)
34. VargasLlosa, Mario: Casa Verde (1966)
35. Gide: Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925)
36. Gadda: Cognizione del Dolore (1963)
37. Barth, John: Giles Goat Boy
38. Buzzati, Dino: Deserto dei tartari (1940)
39. Camus: "The Stranger" (1942)
40. Kis, Danilo: Clessidra (1972)
41. Unamuno, Miguel: Nebla (1914)
42. Singer, Isaac: Moskat Family (1950)
43. Oe, Kenzaburo: Silent Cry (1967)
44. Schnitzler, Arthur: Traumnovelle/ Dream Story (1925)
45. Lem: Solaris (1961)
46. GarciaMarquez: Cien Anos de Soledad (1967)
47. Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
48. Melville: "Moby Dick" (1851)
49. Marcel Proust: "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" (1922)
50. Rushdie: "Midnight's Children" (1980)
51. Bellow, Saul: "Herzog" (1964)
52. Pavic, Milroad: "The Dictionary of the Khazars" (1984)
53. Lessing, Doris: "The Golden Notebook" (1962)
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The Best Novels of the 20th Century
(Only one novel per writer, in chronological order)
Selected by Piero Scaruffi
Thomas Mann (Germany): "Buddenbrooks" (1901)
Henry James (USA): "The Golden Bowl" (1904)
Joseph Conrad (Britain): "Nostromo" (1904)
Luigi Pirandello (Italy): "The Late Mattia Pascal" (1904)
Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain): "Howards End" (1910)
Boris Bugayev "Andrey Bely" (Russia): "Petersburg" (1912)
Franz Kafka (Austria): "The Trial" (1915)
James Joyce (Ireland): "Ulysses" (1922)
Marcel Proust (France): "In Search of Lost Time" (1922)
Italo Svevo (Italy): "Zeno's Conscience" (1923)
Andre' Gide (France): "The Counterfeiters" (1925)
Francis-Scott Fitzgerald (USA): "The Great Gatsby" (1925)
Arthur Schnitzler: "Traumnovelle/ Dream Story" (1925)
Julien Green (France): "Adrienne Mesurat" (1927)
Virginia Woolf (Britain): "To the Lighthouse" (1927)
Mihail Sadoveanu (Romania): "Ancuta's Inn" (1928)
Stanislaw Witkiewicz (Poland): "Insatiability" (1930)
Vladislav Vancura (Czech): "Marketa Lazarova" (1931)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (France): "Journey to the End of the Night" (1932)
William Faulkner (USA): "Light in August" (1932)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Spain): "San Manuel Bueno Martir" (1933)
Robert Musil (Austria): "The Man Without Qualities" (1933)
Karel Capek (Czech): "An Ordinary Life" (1934)
Elias Canetti (Germany): "Auto Da Fe" (1935)
Flann O'Brien (Ireland): "At Swim-two-birds" (1939)
Joseph Roth (Austria): "The Legend of the Holy Drinker" (1939)
Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia): "The Master and Margarita" (1940)
Albert Camus (France): "The Stranger" (1942)
Hermann Broch (Austria): "The Death of Virgil" (1945)
Julien Gracq (France): "A Dark Stranger" (1945)
Malcolm Lowry (Britain): "Under the Volcano" (1947)
Tanizaki Junichiro (Japan): "Makioka Sisters" (1948)
Cesare Pavese (Italy): "The Moon and the Bonfires" (1950)
Alejo Carpentier (Cuba): "The Lost Steps" (1953)
Rafael Sanchez-Ferlosio (Spain): "The River El Jarama" (1955)
William Gaddis (USA): "The Recognitions" (1955)
Elsa Morante (Italy): "Arthur's Island" (1957)
Patrick White (Australia): "Voss" (1957)
Augusto Roa-Bastos (Paraguay): "Son of Man" (1959)
Wilson Harris (Guyana): "Palace of the Peacock" (1960)
Ernesto Sabato (Argentina): "Of Heroes and Tombs" (1961)
Hugo Claus (Belgium): "Amazement" (1962)
Beppe Fenoglio (Italy): "A Private Question" (1963)
CarloEmilio Gadda (Italy): "Acquainted with Grief" (1963)
Ismail Kadare (Albania): "The General of the Dead Army" (1963)
Janet Frame (New Zealand): "Scented Gardens For The Blind" (1963)
Julio Cortazar (Argentina): "Hopscotch" (1963)
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1964)
Saul Bellow (USA): "Herzog" (1964)
John Barth (USA): "Giles Goat Boy" (1966)
Jose Lezama-Lima (Cuba): "Paradise" (1966)
Mario Vargas-Llosa (Peru): "The Green House" (1966)
Miguel Delibes (Spain): "Five Hours with Mario" (1966)
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (Colombia): "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967)
Milan Kundera (Czech): "The Joke" (1967)
Thomas Bernhard (Austria): "Gargoyles" (1967)
Vladimir Nabokov (Russia): "Ada" (1969)
Michel Tournier (France): "The Ogre" (1970)
Danilo Kis (Serbia): "Hourglass" (1972)
Thomas Pynchon (USA): "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973)
Andreas Embirikos (Greece): "The Great Eastern" (1975)
Imre Kertesz (Hungary): "Fateless" (1975)
Juan Goytisolo (Spain): "Juan the Landless" (1975)
Sasha Sokolov (Canada): "School For Fools" (1976)
Barbara Pym (Britain): "Quartet in Autumn" (1977)
Josef Skvorecky (Czech): "The Engineer of Human Souls" (1977)
Georges Perec (France): "La Vie Mode d'Emploi/ A User's Manual" (1978)
Cormac McCarthy (USA): "Suttree" (1979)
Italo Calvino (Italy): "If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" (1979)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): "Burger's Daughter" (1979)
Salman Rushdie (India): "Midnight's Children" (1980)
Elfriede Jelinek (Germany): "Die Ausgesperrten/ Wonderful Times" (1980)
German Espinosa (Colombia): "The Weaver of Crowns" (1982)
Uwe Johnson (Germany): "Jahrestage/ Anniversaries" (1983)
Jose Saramago (Portugal): "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" (1984)
Mahmud Dowlatabadi (Iran): "Kelidar" (1984)
Murakami Haruki (Japan): "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai (1954): "Satantango" (1985)
Peer Hultberg (Denmark): "Requiem" (1985)
Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
Joseph McElroy (USA): "Women and Men" (1987)
Milorad Pavic (Serbia): "Dictionary of the Khazars" (1988)
Gao Xingjian/Xingjian (China): "Soul Mountain" (1989)
Antonia Byatt (Britain): "Possession" (1990)
Agustina Bessa-Luis (Portugal): "Abraham's Valley" (1991)
Don DeLillo (USA): "Underworld" (1997)
(since 1850 and only one per writer)
selected by piero scaruffi
1. Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
2. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
3. Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
4. Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
5. James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
6. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
7. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
8. Pynchon, Thomas: V
9. Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
10. Faulkner, William: Light in August
11. Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
12. Dostoevskij, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
13. Joyce, James: Ulysses
14. Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
15. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
16. Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
17. Gombrowicz: Pornography (1960)
18. Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace
19. Zola, Emile: Germinal (1885)
20. Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (1856)
21. Canetti: Autodafe (1935)
22. Balzac, Honore: Eugene Grandet (1833)
23. Jose, Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)
24. PerezGaldos, Benito: Nazarin (1895)
25. Svevo, Italo: Coscienza di Zeno (1923)
26. Goncarov, Ivan: Oblomov (1859)
27. Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
28. Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1985)
29. Carpentier, Alejo: "Lost Steps" (1953)
30. Pavese, Cesare: Luna e i falo' (1950)
31. Krasznahorkai, Laszlo: Satantango (1985)
32. Cortazar, Julio: Rayuela (1963)
33. Abe Kobo: Woman in the Dunes (1962)
34. VargasLlosa, Mario: Casa Verde (1966)
35. Gide: Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925)
36. Gadda: Cognizione del Dolore (1963)
37. Barth, John: Giles Goat Boy
38. Buzzati, Dino: Deserto dei tartari (1940)
39. Camus: "The Stranger" (1942)
40. Kis, Danilo: Clessidra (1972)
41. Unamuno, Miguel: Nebla (1914)
42. Singer, Isaac: Moskat Family (1950)
43. Oe, Kenzaburo: Silent Cry (1967)
44. Schnitzler, Arthur: Traumnovelle/ Dream Story (1925)
45. Lem: Solaris (1961)
46. GarciaMarquez: Cien Anos de Soledad (1967)
47. Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
48. Melville: "Moby Dick" (1851)
49. Marcel Proust: "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" (1922)
50. Rushdie: "Midnight's Children" (1980)
51. Bellow, Saul: "Herzog" (1964)
52. Pavic, Milroad: "The Dictionary of the Khazars" (1984)
53. Lessing, Doris: "The Golden Notebook" (1962)
----------------------- --------------------------------- --------------------------------
The Best Novels of the 20th Century
(Only one novel per writer, in chronological order)
Selected by Piero Scaruffi
Thomas Mann (Germany): "Buddenbrooks" (1901)
Henry James (USA): "The Golden Bowl" (1904)
Joseph Conrad (Britain): "Nostromo" (1904)
Luigi Pirandello (Italy): "The Late Mattia Pascal" (1904)
Edward-Morgan Forster (Britain): "Howards End" (1910)
Boris Bugayev "Andrey Bely" (Russia): "Petersburg" (1912)
Franz Kafka (Austria): "The Trial" (1915)
James Joyce (Ireland): "Ulysses" (1922)
Marcel Proust (France): "In Search of Lost Time" (1922)
Italo Svevo (Italy): "Zeno's Conscience" (1923)
Andre' Gide (France): "The Counterfeiters" (1925)
Francis-Scott Fitzgerald (USA): "The Great Gatsby" (1925)
Arthur Schnitzler: "Traumnovelle/ Dream Story" (1925)
Julien Green (France): "Adrienne Mesurat" (1927)
Virginia Woolf (Britain): "To the Lighthouse" (1927)
Mihail Sadoveanu (Romania): "Ancuta's Inn" (1928)
Stanislaw Witkiewicz (Poland): "Insatiability" (1930)
Vladislav Vancura (Czech): "Marketa Lazarova" (1931)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (France): "Journey to the End of the Night" (1932)
William Faulkner (USA): "Light in August" (1932)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (Spain): "San Manuel Bueno Martir" (1933)
Robert Musil (Austria): "The Man Without Qualities" (1933)
Karel Capek (Czech): "An Ordinary Life" (1934)
Elias Canetti (Germany): "Auto Da Fe" (1935)
Flann O'Brien (Ireland): "At Swim-two-birds" (1939)
Joseph Roth (Austria): "The Legend of the Holy Drinker" (1939)
Mikhail Bulgakov (Russia): "The Master and Margarita" (1940)
Albert Camus (France): "The Stranger" (1942)
Hermann Broch (Austria): "The Death of Virgil" (1945)
Julien Gracq (France): "A Dark Stranger" (1945)
Malcolm Lowry (Britain): "Under the Volcano" (1947)
Tanizaki Junichiro (Japan): "Makioka Sisters" (1948)
Cesare Pavese (Italy): "The Moon and the Bonfires" (1950)
Alejo Carpentier (Cuba): "The Lost Steps" (1953)
Rafael Sanchez-Ferlosio (Spain): "The River El Jarama" (1955)
William Gaddis (USA): "The Recognitions" (1955)
Elsa Morante (Italy): "Arthur's Island" (1957)
Patrick White (Australia): "Voss" (1957)
Augusto Roa-Bastos (Paraguay): "Son of Man" (1959)
Wilson Harris (Guyana): "Palace of the Peacock" (1960)
Ernesto Sabato (Argentina): "Of Heroes and Tombs" (1961)
Hugo Claus (Belgium): "Amazement" (1962)
Beppe Fenoglio (Italy): "A Private Question" (1963)
CarloEmilio Gadda (Italy): "Acquainted with Grief" (1963)
Ismail Kadare (Albania): "The General of the Dead Army" (1963)
Janet Frame (New Zealand): "Scented Gardens For The Blind" (1963)
Julio Cortazar (Argentina): "Hopscotch" (1963)
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico): "The Death of Artemio Cruz" (1964)
Saul Bellow (USA): "Herzog" (1964)
John Barth (USA): "Giles Goat Boy" (1966)
Jose Lezama-Lima (Cuba): "Paradise" (1966)
Mario Vargas-Llosa (Peru): "The Green House" (1966)
Miguel Delibes (Spain): "Five Hours with Mario" (1966)
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (Colombia): "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967)
Milan Kundera (Czech): "The Joke" (1967)
Thomas Bernhard (Austria): "Gargoyles" (1967)
Vladimir Nabokov (Russia): "Ada" (1969)
Michel Tournier (France): "The Ogre" (1970)
Danilo Kis (Serbia): "Hourglass" (1972)
Thomas Pynchon (USA): "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973)
Andreas Embirikos (Greece): "The Great Eastern" (1975)
Imre Kertesz (Hungary): "Fateless" (1975)
Juan Goytisolo (Spain): "Juan the Landless" (1975)
Sasha Sokolov (Canada): "School For Fools" (1976)
Barbara Pym (Britain): "Quartet in Autumn" (1977)
Josef Skvorecky (Czech): "The Engineer of Human Souls" (1977)
Georges Perec (France): "La Vie Mode d'Emploi/ A User's Manual" (1978)
Cormac McCarthy (USA): "Suttree" (1979)
Italo Calvino (Italy): "If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" (1979)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): "Burger's Daughter" (1979)
Salman Rushdie (India): "Midnight's Children" (1980)
Elfriede Jelinek (Germany): "Die Ausgesperrten/ Wonderful Times" (1980)
German Espinosa (Colombia): "The Weaver of Crowns" (1982)
Uwe Johnson (Germany): "Jahrestage/ Anniversaries" (1983)
Jose Saramago (Portugal): "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" (1984)
Mahmud Dowlatabadi (Iran): "Kelidar" (1984)
Murakami Haruki (Japan): "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai (1954): "Satantango" (1985)
Peer Hultberg (Denmark): "Requiem" (1985)
Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
Joseph McElroy (USA): "Women and Men" (1987)
Milorad Pavic (Serbia): "Dictionary of the Khazars" (1988)
Gao Xingjian/Xingjian (China): "Soul Mountain" (1989)
Antonia Byatt (Britain): "Possession" (1990)
Agustina Bessa-Luis (Portugal): "Abraham's Valley" (1991)
Don DeLillo (USA): "Underworld" (1997)
