Shkrimtari Jorge Luis Borges: Lexoni këto 74 libra

Në vitin 1985, shkrimtari i njohur Jorge Luis Borges nisi të radhiste librat të cilët atij i kishin ndihmuar në jetë, ia kishin ndryshuar jetën dhe librat të cilët ai do ti rekomandonte për lexim.

Detyra iu dha nga Hyspamerica – një botues nga Argjentina, ndërsa kësisoj shkrimtari i njohur nisi të krijonte listën e tij. Libraria personale e tij përmban tituj nga më të ndryshmit, disa të përkthyer në anglisht e disa vetëm në gjuhën spanjolle.

Një pjesë e librave janë edhe në gjuhën shqipe, sikurse Dino Buzzati, Dostojevski, Søren Kierkegaard, Daniel Defoe e autorë tjerë.

Po e paraqesim këtu listën e 74 librave të cilët duhet ti lexoni dhe për efekt gjetje i kemi lënë në anglisht:

1. Stories by Julio Cortázar
2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
3. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
4. The Blue Cross: A Father Broën Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
5. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
6. The Intelligence of Floëers by Maurice Maeterlinck
7. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
8. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
9. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
10. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
11. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
12. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
13. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
14. &17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
16. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill
17. Tales of Ise by Ariëara no Narihara
18. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
19. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
20. The Three Impostors
21. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
22. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
23. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
24. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edëard Gibbon
25. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
26. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
27. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
28. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
29. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
30. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
31. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
32. Travels by Marco Polo
33. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
34. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
35. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
36. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
37. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
38. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
39. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
40. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
41. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
42. Tales by Rudyard Kipling
43. Vathek by William Beckford
44. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
45. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
46. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
47. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
48. The Thousand and One Nights
49. Neë Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
50. Salvation of the Jeës, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
51. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
52. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
53. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor’s Return by David Garnett
54. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
55. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
56. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
57. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
58. Complete Poetry by William Blake
59. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
60. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
61. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
62. The Aeneid by Virgil
63. Stories by Voltaire
64. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
65. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
66. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
67. Egil’s Saga by Snorri Sturluson
68. The Book of the Dead
69. & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn.

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