August 2016 – Encyclopedia of World Literature

Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century

August 26, 2016January 26, 2019 LitmanLeave a Comment

1 The StrangerThe Outsider Albert Camus 1942 French 2 In Search of Lost TimeRemembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust 1913–27 French 3 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 German 4 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French 5 Man’s Fate André Malraux 1933 French 6 Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 […]

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Le Monde’s 100 Books of the Century

“Insomnia”, TAHAR BEN JELLOUN.

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James Joyce

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