The Daily Telegraph has compiled a list of 110 best books of history, a sort of ideal library contained in 11 categories. Among the books offered forced many choices, some interesting proposal and a little too much English literature, especially in the poetry. So I thought to draw my own personal list, trying to figure out what book I would put on top of each category proposed. And the game around you. What are the books I could not miss in your library? Classics: here gets angry if I say Tolstoy Dostoevsky. And if he gets angry hard Dostoevsky Tolstoy. So I say to Oblomov Goncharov.
Poetry: The Waste Land of TS Eliot. (And here I am with the British).
Literary Fiction: Grass The Tin Drum. But even Opinions of a clown But Roth Bull. But ...
Romantic Fiction: Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago (the newspaper puts it into this category and I took advantage)
Children's Books: The Little Prince S. Exupery (ok not for children but I had to name him sooner or later).
Science Fiction: George Orwell's 1984 equal with equal with Huxley's Brave New World something to be chosen by Philip Dick.
Crime: The blue room Simenon
Crime: The blue room Simenon
Book That Changed the World: here you may dwell indefinitely. But I honor generations of nihilists: Fathers and Sons Turgenev .
Book That Changed Your World: The trilogy of City of K. of Agota Kristof .
History: category difficult. It would take the dear Vronsky. I do not go over books on Italian history since the war. War and Peace is worth?
Lives: do not have a great passion for biographies. I propose the Confessions of St. Augustine with the brain and the life of Coco Chanel with the heart. I do not know which approach would be more unusual .
ps. someone has kindly reported that this post is full of "tragic protosovietico literary snob" and that I should stop. And then I call them friends. bah.
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