50-Famous Foreign
Literature
See also
Short Biographies of Foreign AuthorsThere is a lot of very famous
English literature which is very necessary to know in relation to Indian
literature. Here are some non-English literature from other countries
which are very famous. You will find either the name of the authors or
their works very familiar.
France
Dumas, Alexandre
(1) The Three Musketeers
(2) La Dame aux Caamelias
(3) the Count of Monte Cristo
France, Anatole (1844-1924) - Novelist, Essayist, Noble Laureate
Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre-dame
Les Miserables
Bug Jargal
Sartre, Jean-Paul
(1) The Nausea
(2) The Wall (Modern Voices)
(3) The Words
Germany
Nietzsche,
Friedrich
(1) The Anti-Christ
(2) Thus Spoke Zarathustra : a book of none and all
(3) The Portable Nietzsche
(4) Beyond Good and Evil
Greece
Homer, 8th century BC (poet)
(1) Iliad
(2) Odyssey
(3) Some poems - Little Iliad, Nostoi, Cypria, Epigoni,
(4) Epic Cycle (entire)
(5) Comic mini-epic - Batrachomyomachia (The Frog-Mouse War), and the Margites
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are often compared with
Mahaabhaarat epic of India, because no other epic exists in the world except
them in any country, other than these two. And even these two combined are not
comparable to the huge size of Mahaahaarat.
Nigeria
Achebe, Chinua
(1) Things Fall Apart
Russia
Chekhov, Anton
(1) Stories of Anton Chekhov
Gorky, Maxim (1868-1936)
- Novelist and Drama Writer
A prolific writer of stories
and novels.
(1) "A Girl and Death" - On October 11, 1931 Gorky read his fairy tale "A Girl
and Death" to his visitors Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov and Vyacheslav
Molotov. On that same day Stalin left his autograph on the last page of his work
: "This piece is stronger than Goethe's Faust (love defeats death)". Stalin and
Molotov were among those who carried his coffin. He wrote from 1901 to 1933.
(2) The Mother (1907)
Nabokov, Vladimir
(1) Lolita
Tolstoy, Leo
(1) War and Peace (1869)
(2) La Guerre et la Paix tome (in 2 parts)
(3) The Death of Ivan Ilych
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - Essayist, Philosopher, and Statesman
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) - Mystic, Poet and Artist
The Prophet
Brown, Dan
The Da Vinci Code
Goethe
Faust
Kierkegaard, Soren
Fear and Trembling
Lewis, CS
The Screwtape Letters
Voltaire
Candid
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