Desert Island Collection - Top 24 - BooksJamis lu. C'est promis, j'essaie. En français, Jack Barron ou l'Eternité - sa lecture ne laisse pas indifférent ! Elle est très belle cette édition !! ah i didn't know he wrote books, I'll search for it! the best I've read the English, never the French. Excellent Genius JMG Le Clezio was just awarded the Nobel Prize today ! yes !!!!! ![]() Even harder an execice as for music and movies, these are the 24 books I would take on a desert island. Lots are missing (see at the end) but these have had deep impacts on me and have been my favs over the years. No particular order. For all the listed books, I enjoy most works of the corresponding writers but I had to choose one.
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Franz Kafka - Le Procés / The Trial Georges Perec - La vie mode d'emploi JMG Le Clezio - Le Procés-Verbal EM Cioran - De l'inconvénient d'être né Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal René Daumal - Le Mont Analogue Michel Leiris - Aurora Herman Hesse - Le Jeu des Perles de Verre Boris Vian - L'Automne à Pékin F. Nietzsche - Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra JK Huysmans - A Rebours Joseph Heller - Catch 22 Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron Lautréamont - Les Chants de Maldoror R. Zelazny - The Chronicles of Amber Philip K Dick - UBIK Louis Pauwels et Jaques Bergier - Le Matin des Magiciens Charles Bukowski - Play the piano like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin to bleed Philip Roth - The Human Stain Daniel Pennac - Aux fruits de la passion John Brunner - Stand on Zanzibar Charles Mingus - Beneath the underdog Louis Ferdinand Celine - Voyage au bout de la nuit John Irving - A prayer for Owen Meany Great books and writers are missing that were of my first selection: Dostoievsky, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Raymond Queneau, Alfred Jarry, Alexandre Vialatte, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Raymond Roussel, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, André Breton, Thomas Hardy, Garbriel Garcia Marquez, John Fowles, Umberto Eco, Andres Ibanes, Douglas "Godel, Escher, Bach" Hofstadter, Lawrence Durrell, Michel Onfray, William Gibson, Jorge Luis Borges, John Dos Passos, Thomas Mann, Jack Kerouack, Malcolm Lowry, Henry Miller..... and many more. All these (but one) are covers of books I own. Desert Island Coll. - Music - www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/370733734/in/set-132648/ Desert Island Coll. - Movies - www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/408783370/in/set-132648/ Desert Island Coll. - Books - www.flickr.com/photos/feuilllu/436336477/ CommentsRejean Pellerin
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Belle sélection!
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