I'm an American, and to broaden my horizons I'm going attempt to read the best novel from various European countries this year.
Working on the list now. Here's what I've got so far.
Italy: The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni Portugal: The Maias by Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros Ireland: Ulysses by James Joyce Spain: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Poland: The Doll by Boleslaw Pius, or something by Gombrowicz (Cosmos or Pornografia) Norway: Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Please make suggestions.
>If you think I've got the wrong book for a certain country, just say so. Don't flip out.
>If you're from outside Europe, you love someplace outside Europe, and you want to recommend something, go ahead and say the country and the book, that's fine.
British and Russian recommendations are welcome, but not really necessary, because I already read a lot of them.
Jonathan Campbell
Gene Wolfe for croatia
Grayson Walker
pic related for serbia/croatia depending on how you feel about things
fuck you pinky
Elijah Martinez
>reading Don Quixote without having read Amadis de Gaula or any other spanish chivalric romance Don't do it, you won't understand the true meaning of the book.
Luke Perez
Cheers, but do a bit of research on the monarchy's decline and the effects of the Industrial Revolution in Portugal before reading The Maias, otherwise you'll miss the entire point.
Oliver Jones
Probably Kazantzakis for Greece.
Jonathan Sanchez
Bruno Schulz (everything he wrote) for Poland
Thomas Gomez
>I'm an American stopped reading there
Justin Ortiz
user, you won't understand a shit if you read only one book from each country, because they are built on previous books. That's like trying to understand Bolaño without reading Borges.
