Around the World in 80 Books
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'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the
perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen
GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe,
told through eighty classic and modern books'It is always a
pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all
of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all'
Orhan PamukInspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David
Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature
and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to
counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty
exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary
itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via
authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk,
Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these
works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world
bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world
literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very
different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the
world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and
meaning to their lives.In his literary cartography, Damrosch
includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial
classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of
fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to
the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer
us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social
consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More
designed Utopia to combat and the patriarchal structures within and
against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle, from
the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret
Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation
to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world
and its literature in new ways.
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