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  • I once had a plan to read at least one classic novel from (almost) every country, I keep forgetting about it but I really should do it, I usually end up enjoying them

    Anyone has any non-western recommendations?

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    This was getting a bit out of hand with people sending asks instead of commenting, so I compiled everything that was sent to me under the cut. The rest of the recommendations are in the comments as usual. Thank you all for the recs!

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    Ok, inspired by @toadlett, I started compiling these in a google doc

    WORLD LITERATURE LIST
    WORLD LITERATURE LIST Asia Afghanistan: Armenia: Azerbaijan: Bahrain: Bangladesh: Bhutan: Brunei: Cambodia: China: Dream of Red Cha
    Google Docs

    And I saw that there are many lists online of a similar kind, but as I'm mostly interested in classical literature rather than modern, and also as I'd like to prioritize the books that have been recommended to me rather than ones I find online, I'll continue to curate this list. Thank you again! ☺️

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    12. hlblng said: For Iran you might like The Blind Owl from Sadegh Hedayat. I really didn’t enjoy reading it but I see why it is one of the foundational novels for Iranian literature in the early 20th century. And I saw you don’t have anything from austria yet. Ingeborg Bachmann got us our first nobel price and I like her short story collection the thirtieth year. The piano teacher by elfriede jelinek is a classic but I haven’t read it because it doesn’t speak to me that much tbh And I can recommend the Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler (1925). The movie eyes wide shut is based on it :)
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