Las 100 mejores novelas de todos tiempos
The 100 greatest novels of all time: The List. Básicamente, los sospechosos habituales, con un asombroso peso para la literatura en inglés. Entre las sorpresas, Frankenstein ocupa el décimo puesto. No me sorprende que esté, sino que la hayan reconocido.
So, are you congratulating yourself on having read everything on our list or screwing the newspaper up into a ball and aiming it at the nearest bin?
Are you wondering what happened to all those American writers from Bret Easton Ellis to Jeffrey Eugenides, from Jonathan Franzen to Cormac McCarthy?
Have women been short-changed? Should we have included Pat Barker, Elizabeth Bowen, A.S. Byatt, Penelope Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing and Iris Murdoch?
What’s happened to novels in translation such as Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Hesse’s Siddhartha, Mishima’s The Sea of Fertility, Süskind’s Perfume and Zola’s Germinal?
Writers such as J.G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Anthony Burgess, Bruce Chatwin, Robertson Davies, John Fowles, Nick Hornby, Russell Hoban, Somerset Maugham and V.S. Pritchett narrowly missed the final hundred. Were we wrong to lose them?
[Estoy escuchando: «Mr.Bonjangles (live)» de Robbie Williams en el disco Live summer 2003]