Being aware that the pace of life is very fast in today’s society, it would be inappropriate to claim that we all have an extremely high literary culture. We think it’s there though a set of essential books everyone should read before forty.
So we made a choice ten works either because of their catchy themes, literary devices, or language milestones of universal literature, and somehow they stamped history and transformed it.
‘The Stranger’ – Albert Camus
protagonist abroad is an indifferent being who thinks reality is absurd and boring. In this way, Camus reflects on how technological progress has put him in a bubble and made him an “alien” as his environment should be.
This work, published in 1942, a literary classic will make you think about the lack of values in the world and how the absence of a goal in life leads us to utter indifference.
‘The history of the bird that swept the world’ – Haruki Murakami
This hypnotic Murakami novel revolves around a great mystery mixed between fantasy and reality.
Tooru Okada, the protagonist ‘Diary of the bird that blew up the world’, He receives a strange anonymous call, and from there his life begins to take a strange turn.
A book that undoubtedly reflects the Japanese author’s slow and relentless way of creating parallel realities.
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
‘Wuthering Heights’ It is the great romantic novel that gave rise to movies, operas, and even songs. Charlotte Brontë described her sister’s work as follows: “arid and gnarled like heather root”.
In this cornerstone of the gothic genre, tension, uncertainty, moonless nights, helpless imprisonment, excessive cruelty and a nightmarish atmosphere come together.
‘The name of the rose’ – Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco combines medieval chronicle, detective novel, ideological story and narrative allegory. historical mystery novel.
He describes the research titled ‘The Name of the Rose’ published in 1980 as follows: Baskerville monk William Together with his student Adso de Melk to solve crimes that take place in a mysterious and miserable Benedictine monastery.
‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ – Milan Kundera
psychology and philosophy combine in this novel by author and playwright Czech Milan Kundera.
Set in 1968, the film is the story of a man and his existential doubts about life as a couple.
Love, jealousy, sex, betrayals, weaknesses, death and other paradoxes of life make this book beautiful. a philosophical reflection on the futility of existence.
‘The Catcher in the Rye’ – JD Salinger
Wonderful work of false anthrop JD Salinger It went down in history not only with its groundbreaking and literary quality, but also with its accompanying legend. It’s where several serial killers in the United States have it as their bedside book.
‘The Catcher in the Rye’ is a candid account of a New York teenager’s adventures to survive a war that has affected successive generations around the world.
‘Women’ – Charles Bukowski
Clear and direct, Bukowski chronicles the adventures of a young man and his search for true love. A process of self-knowledge that leads him to sleep with countless women.
about One of the most acclaimed novels of the American author That it should be read before the other works of the tortured and alcoholic Bukowski.
‘Lolita’ – Vladimir Nabokov
‘Lolita’ is about a middle-aged man’s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl. This novel caused controversy from the time it was published and continues to be talked about to this day.
And this is one of ‘Lolita’ most disturbing and fascinating novels A universal classic that represents the triumph of literature and freedom and beauty.
Dubliners – James Joyce
Fifteen short stories make up the ‘Dubliners’. All constitute one realistic representation and sometimes a satire of the Irish middle and lower classes in early 20th century Dublin.
Irish writer seeks to reflect the cultural, mental and social paralysis affecting the city. “It’s a chapter in my country’s moral history, and I chose Dublin because it felt like a stroke center to me,” Joyce said.
‘The Fog’ – Miguel de Unamuno
‘Niebla’ tells the story of Augusto and his existential problem by questioning his daily life. While visiting Unamuno, he discovers something he did not expect, he is a fictional being.
about One of Miguel de Unamuno’s most famous novels and also one of the masterpieces of the ’98 generation.
Source: Informacion
