Monday, March 10, 2008

Read the Nobels

There is a lot of work for me to do on the Nobels! I am in the Read the Nobels project, so I am slowly going to work on this. Have you read these?

Here is what I have read so far:

1990- Octavio Paz

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; o, Las trampas de la fe. – Barcelona : Seix Barral, 1982

1982- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Relato de un naufrago. – Barcelona: Tusquets, 1970
Del amor y otros demonios. – Madrid: Mondadori, 1994
Memoria de mis putas tristes. – New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004
1970- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Nobel Lecture on Literature 1972
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1963

1968- Yasunari Kawabata
Thousand Cranes / translated by Edward G. Seidensticker. – New York : Knopf, 1959

1967- Miguel Angel Asturias
Sociologia guatemalteca : El problema social del indio., 1923
El Señor Presidente. – Mexico City : Costa-Amic, 1946
Hombres de maíz. – Buenos Aires : Losada, 1949

1907- Rudyard Kippling
Jungle Book
, 1894


Will read soon:

1949- William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
. – New York : Cape & Smith, 1930
2001-Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
The Mystic Masseur.
– London: Deutsch, 1957.
2000- Gao Xingjian
Soul Mountain / transl. by Mabel Lee. – HarperCollins, 1999.
1983- William Golding
Lord of the Flies-1954

* Completed books off the "will read soon" list will be ORANGE.

1 comment:

Trish @ Love, Laughter, Insanity said...

I read As I Lay Dying last year. I have a love/hate relationship with Faulkner, but I always seem to go back for more. Good luck with the challenge!