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phree  ·  4068 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mind-blowing literature?

I study Portuguese and Brazilian literature, so here are some novels you probably haven't heard of before:

António Lobo Antunes, The Natural Order of Things José Saramago, Blindness Milton Hatoum, The Brothers Chico Buarque, Budapest

On a differente note:

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller Dostoevski, Brothers Karamazov Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury





user-inactivated  ·  4068 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good choices! I recently read Calvino's Invisible Cities and absolutely adored it - it's just so full of pure inventiveness and wonder. Also really like Saramago and Dostoevski and have heard nothing but the best things about Faulkner. Definitely going to look through them all.