WLT's 40 Most Important Books, 1927-2001

Given by World Literature Today

40 Obras 275,150 Libros 4,394 Reseñas ½ 4.0
In celebration of its 75th anniversary, World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma has selected a list of the 40 most important books of the last 75 years. It includes works by writers from mostrar más 29 countries. mostrar menos
Years:
Todos, 1987 (1), 1978 (1), 1974 (1), 1972 (1), 1968 (1), 1967 (1), 1966 (1), 1964 (1), 1962 (4), 1961 (2), 1959 (1), 1958 (2), 1957 (1), 1956 (2), 1953 (1), 1952 (4), 1950 (1), 1948 (1), 1945 (1), 1944 (1), 1943 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (1), 1935 (1), 1934 (1), 1933 (1), 1931 (1), 1929 (1), 1928 (2), 1927 (1)
ObraAño
Red Sorghum por Mo Yan
1987
Bells in Winter por Czesław Miłosz
1978
EL CONSERVADOR por Nadine Gordimer
1974
Las ciudades invisibles por Italo Calvino
1972
House Made of Dawn por N. Scott Momaday
1968
Cien años de soledad por Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1967
Collected shorter poems, 1927-1957 por W. H. Auden
1966
Una cuestión personal por Kenzaburō Ōe
1964
El cuaderno dorado por Doris Lessing
1962
Pálido fuego por Vladimir Nabokov
1962
La plaza del Diamante por Mercè Rodoreda
1962
Un dia en la vida de Ivan Denisovich por Alexander Solzhenitsyn
1962
A house for Mr Biswas por V. S. Naipaul
1961
Libro del desasosiego por Fernando Pessoa
1961
El tambor de hojalata por Günter Grass
1959
Todo se desmorona por Chinua Achebe
1958
El guía por R. K. Narayan
1958
Voss por Patrick White
1957
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street por Naguib Mahfouz
1956
Gran Sertón: Veredas por João Guimarães Rosa
1956
Los pasos perdidos por Alejo Carpentier
1953
Esperando a Godot por Samuel Beckett
1952
El hombre invisible por Ralph Ellison
1952
El viejo y el mar por Ernest Hemingway
1952
In Country Sleep por Dylan Thomas
1952
El Laberinto de la Soledad por Octavio Paz
1950
País de nieve por Yasunari Kawabata
1948
Ayer y anteayer por S. Y. Agnon
1945
Ficciones por Jorge Luis Borges
1944
Cuatro cuartetos por T. S. Eliot
1943
El extranjero por Albert Camus
1942
Mother Courage and Her Children por Bertolt Brecht
1941
Requiem por Anna Akhmatova
1935
Gente independiente por Halldór Laxness
1934
Residencia en la Tierra por Pablo Neruda
1933
Στροφή por Γιῶργος Σεφέρης
1931
El Ruido y la Furia por William Faulkner
1929
Romancero gitano por Federico García Lorca
1928
The Tower por W. B. Yeats
1928
Al faro por Virginia Woolf
1927

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