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My current reading list that leads towards Italian literature
For lovers of Italian literature and beyond:
Just looking to share this with you all, it's my current reading list that is organized chronologically from the Middle Ages to today. There is a heavy focus on Italian literature to capitalize on my mastery of the language, in which I've chosen to read all Italian texts in the original language, while peppering in a fair share of English language texts, and a handful of other-language texts.
There are two main reasons I've ideated this list: one is to fill in the gaps missing after not getting a standard Italian lyceum education in literature and to cover the "Great Italian Novels" (I grew up in the US with a standard American high school education in literature, but I've chosen great English texts to balance out the reading as well), and two, to prepare for additional cultural education re: Italy for the purpose of writing a novel set in that country. The Divine Comedy and The Betrothed aren't on the list because I've covered them already. I've just finished Il piacere (Pleasure) by D'Annunzio. At the end of the list, there is some random contemporary literature to close out the selection. Let me know what you think!
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BookAuthorYear
Vita NuovaDante Alighieri1294
DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1353
CanzoniereFrancesco Petrarca1374
Orlando furiosoLudovico Ariosto1516
Gerusalemme liberata (The Liberation of Jerusalem)Torquato Tasso1581
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1615
King LearWilliam Shakespeare1623
Paradise LostJohn Milton1674
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence Sterne1767
Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)Ugo Foscolo1802
FrankensteinMary Shelley1818
Le mie prigioni (My Prisons)Silvio Pellico1832
Moby-DickHerman Melville1851
I Malavoglia(The House by the Medlar Tree) Giovanni Verga1881
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1885
Il piacere (Pleasure)Gabriele D'Annunzio1889
I viceré (The Viceroys)Federico De Roberto1894
MyricaeGiovanni Pascoli1903
Il fu Mattia Pascal(The Late Mattia Pascal) Luigi Pirandello1904
Death in VeniceThomas Mann1912
La coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's Conscience)Italo Svevo1923
Gli indifferenti (The Indifferent Ones)Alberto Moravia1929
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli(Christ Stopped at Eboli) Carlo Levi1945
La casa in collina(The House on the Hill) Cesare Pavese1948
LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955
On the RoadJack Kerouac1957
Il gattopardo (The Leopard)Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1958
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958
A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M. Miller, Jr.1959
Catch-22Joseph Heller1961
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini(The Garden of the Finzi Contini) Giorgio Bassani1962
Una questione privata(A Private Matter) Beppe Fenoglio1963
La storia (History)Elsa Morante1974
Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose)Umberto Eco1980
Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy1985
BelovedToni Morrison1987
Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace1996
My Name is RedOrhan Pamuk1998
Così per sempre (This Way Forever)Chiara Valerio2022
M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa(M. The Last Days of Europe) Antonio Scurati2022
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For lovers of Italian literature and beyond:
Just looking to share this with you all, it's my current reading list that is organized chronologically from the Middle Ages to today. There is a heavy focus on Italian literature to capitalize on my mastery of the language, in which I've chosen to read all Italian texts in the original language, while peppering in a fair share of English language texts, and a handful of other-language texts.
There are two main reasons I've ideated this list: one is to fill in the gaps missing after not getting a standard Italian lyceum education in literature and to cover the "Great Italian Novels" (I grew up in the US with a standard American high school education in literature, but I've chosen great English texts to balance out the reading as well), and two, to prepare for additional cultural education re: Italy for the purpose of writing a novel set in that country. The Divine Comedy and The Betrothed aren't on the list because I've covered them already. I've just finished Il piacere (Pleasure) by D'Annunzio. At the end of the list, there is some random contemporary literature to close out the selection. Let me know what you think!
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BookAuthorYear
Vita NuovaDante Alighieri1294
DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1353
CanzoniereFrancesco Petrarca1374
Orlando furiosoLudovico Ariosto1516
Gerusalemme liberata (The Liberation of Jerusalem)Torquato Tasso1581
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1615
King LearWilliam Shakespeare1623
Paradise LostJohn Milton1674
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence Sterne1767
Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis (The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis)Ugo Foscolo1802
FrankensteinMary Shelley1818
Le mie prigioni (My Prisons)Silvio Pellico1832
Moby-DickHerman Melville1851
I Malavoglia(The House by the Medlar Tree) Giovanni Verga1881
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1885
Il piacere (Pleasure)Gabriele D'Annunzio1889
I viceré (The Viceroys)Federico De Roberto1894
MyricaeGiovanni Pascoli1903
Il fu Mattia Pascal(The Late Mattia Pascal) Luigi Pirandello1904
Death in VeniceThomas Mann1912
La coscienza di Zeno (Zeno's Conscience)Italo Svevo1923
Gli indifferenti (The Indifferent Ones)Alberto Moravia1929
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli(Christ Stopped at Eboli) Carlo Levi1945
La casa in collina(The House on the Hill) Cesare Pavese1948
LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955
On the RoadJack Kerouac1957
Il gattopardo (The Leopard)Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1958
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958
A Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M. Miller, Jr.1959
Catch-22Joseph Heller1961
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini(The Garden of the Finzi Contini) Giorgio Bassani1962
Una questione privata(A Private Matter) Beppe Fenoglio1963
La storia (History)Elsa Morante1974
Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose)Umberto Eco1980
Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy1985
BelovedToni Morrison1987
Infinite JestDavid Foster Wallace1996
My Name is RedOrhan Pamuk1998
Così per sempre (This Way Forever)Chiara Valerio2022
M. Gli ultimi giorni dell'Europa(M. The Last Days of Europe) Antonio Scurati2022
#entertainment
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