09 September 2014

10 BEST BOOKS OF FICTION

10 BEST BOOKS OF FICTION © Farouk Asvat  

THE JOYS OF LITERATURE  
     towards an international library  

          a beginner's guide to the essential books of fiction:
          to understand the cultures of the world in the context of our time.

          these are the 10 perfect books of fiction: 
 
● HAMLET: William Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) (britain)
● DEMONS: Fýodor Dostoyevsky (russia)
● ANNA KARENINA: Leo Tolstoi (russia)
● GERMINAL: Émile Zola (france)
● PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: Jane Austen (britain)
● HEART OF DARNESS: Joseph Conrad (poland / britain)
● ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE: Gabriel García Márquez (colombia)
● MY NAME IS RED: Orhan Pamuk (turkeye)
● THE SOUND AND THE FURY: William Faulkner (usa)
● THE SEA OF FERTILITY: Yukio Mishima (japan)

[] + 5 LIST:

● LES LIASONS DANGEREUSES: Choderlos de Laclos (france)
● DAVID COPPERFIELD: Charles Dickens (britain)
● THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ: Carlos Fuentes (méxico)
● ZORBA THE GREEK: Nikos Kazantzakis (greece)
● LABYRINTHS: Jorge Luis Borges (argentina)

[] + 5 anthologies of POEMS:

● THE ESSENTIAL RUMI: Jalaluddin Balkhi Rumi (afghanistan - turkey) [tr. c barks & j moyne]
● SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE: William Blake (britain)
● GITANJALI: Rabindranath Tagore (india)
● SELECTED POEMS: William Butler Yeats (ireland)
● SELECTED POEMS: Pablo Neruda (chile) [tr. nathaniel tarn]

© farouk asvat

composed: 2010 [Johannesburg, South Africa under apartheid].

[] Acknowledgements:

10 Best Books of Fiction was previously published in:
     Weapons of Words (kindle, 2016);
     Weapons of Words (amazon paperback, p115, 2016).
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[§] Books by Farouk Asvat:

Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
The Wind Still Sings Sad Songs (poetry)
A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
This Masquerade (short stories)
Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
In The House Of Love (novel)*
Weapons Of Words (comparative literature & literary criticism)

¨ all my books are now available on amazon: in paperback & kindle
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