61 Essential Postmodern Reads

59 Werken 350,924 boeken 6,168 Besprekingen ½ 4.0
An annotated list put out by the LA Times in 2009 that names 61 essentials of post-modernism. Link to original article. Note: there is no ordering so #1, #2 ... #61 has no significance (someone toon meer should remove the numbers and replace with codes used in LA article; keep the original numbering as "(60| code1, code2)" for easier checking).

Note that #36 on the published list is Shelley Jackson's "Skin", which is neither finished nor a book that is in LibraryThing :) toon minder
Categorieën:
Year Awarded:
2009
WerkCategorieSorteerveld
The New York Trilogie (1985) door Paul Auster
4
Giles Goat-Boy (1966) door John Barth
7
G (1972) door John Berger
9
De onderspitdelver (1983) door Thomas Bernhard
10
2666 (2004) door Roberto Bolaño
11
Labyrinthe (1962) door Jorge Luis Borges
12
Naakte lunch (1962) door William S. Burroughs
13
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) door Robert Burton
14
Als op een winternacht een reiziger (1979) door Italo Calvino
15
Rayuela : een hinkelspel (1966) door Julio Cortázar
16
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (1968) door Robert Coover
17
Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine (1972) door Stanley Crawford
18
Het kaartenhuis (2000) door Mark Z. Danielewski
19
Great Jones Street (1972) door Don DeLillo
20
De man in het hoge kasteel (1962) door Philip K. Dick
21
De stad Gods roman (2000) door E. L. Doctorow
22
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (1997) door Geoff Dyer
23
De mysterieuze vlam van koningin Loana (2004) door Umberto Eco
24
Een hartverscheurend verhaal van duizelingwekkende genialiteit (2000) door Dave Eggers
25
Pornograaf in de zwarte tijd (1989) door Steve Erickson
26
I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) door Percival Everett
27
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) door William Faulkner
28
Alles is verlicht (2001) door Jonathan Safran Foer
29
J R (1975) door William Gaddis
30
The Tunnel (1995) door William H. Gass
31
The Lime Twig (1961) door John Hawkes
32
De rode letter (1850) door Nathaniel Hawthorne
33
De dagen van Lazarus (2008) door Aleksandar Hemon
34
Verslagen uit Vietnam (1977) door Michael Herr
35
De gedaanteverwisseling (1912) door Franz Kafka
36
Het boek van de lach en de vergetelheid (1979) door Milan Kundera
38
De Minna-mannen (1999) door Jonathan Lethem
38
Notable American Women (2002) door Ben Marcus
40
Wittgensteins minnares (1988) door David Markson
40
Dat wat overblijft (2005) door Tom McCarthy
41
Women and Men (1986) door Joseph McElroy
42
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright (1972) door Steven Millhauser
44
Bleek vuur (2011) door Vladimir Nabokov
45
Tegengif (1939) door Flann O'Brien
46
Wat ze droegen (1990) door Tim O'Brien
48
Best of American Splendor (2005) door Harvey Pekar
49
Regenboog van zwaartekracht (1973) door Thomas Pynchon
49
Het contraleven (1986) door Philip Roth
50
De ringen van Saturnus een Engelse pelgrimage (1995) door W. G. Sebald
52
Hamlet Prince of Denmark (1603) door William Shakespeare
53
Mulligan Stew (1979) door Gilbert Sorrentino
54
Trance (2005) door Christopher Sorrentino
55
Maus : vertelling van een overlevende (1973) door Art Spiegelman
55
Het leven en de opvattingen van de heer Tristram Shandy (1759) door Laurence Sterne
56
PopCo (2004) door Scarlett Thomas
58
Slachthuis vijf, of De kinderkruistocht een verplichte dans met de dood (1969) door Kurt Vonnegut
58
Infinite Jest (1996) door David Foster Wallace
59
De John Henry dagen (2001) door Colson Whitehead
61
De gruweltentoonstelling (1969) door J. G. Ballard
author is a character, self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, plays with language, blurs reality and fiction
In Memoriam to Identity (1990) door Kathy Acker
disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, plays with language, overtly references other fictional works
The Hundred Brothers (1997) door Donald Antrim
plays with language, includes fictional artifacts, blurs reality and fiction
Sixty Stories (1981) door Donald Barthelme
self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, blurs reality and fiction
De blinde huurmoordenaar (2000) door Margaret Atwood
self-contradicting plot, disrupts/plays with form, comments on its own bookishness, includes fictional artifacts
De mezzanino (1988) door Nicholson Baker

Trefwoorden

1001(1,005) 1001 books(1,034) 20th century(2,459) alternate history(935) American(2,367) American literature(3,503) classic(3,588) classics(3,915) drama(2,192) ebook(904) English(756) English literature(857) fantasy(768) favorites(896) fiction(32,768) goodreads(818) graphic novel(963) historical fiction(1,817) history(1,213) Holocaust(1,135) horror(1,136) humor(946) literary fiction(869) literature(5,749) memoir(896) metafiction(978) mystery(1,017) non-fiction(1,051) novel(6,315) own(1,394) owned(824) play(1,072) plays(1,173) postmodern(1,238) postmodernism(941) read(3,735) Roman(786) satire(900) science fiction(4,966) short stories(1,603) theatre(851) to-read(17,495) tragedy(789) unread(1,774) usa(1,145) Vietnam(999) Vietnam War(819) war(2,040) William Shakespeare(2,253) wwii(2,638)

Top Leden

rpeckham (52 werken), hewhocutsdown (51), alo1224 (48), CharlemangeOKeeffe (47), tootstorm (46), jmdunc54 (45), emaestra (43), MARizzo72 (43), sandrikoti (43), Adammmmm (41), JVermillion (41), bookmountain (40), efeltonf (40), KrisR (40), michaelg16 (40), phoebekw (40), dllman05 (39), GrettelTBR (39), HadriantheBlind (38), Himalmitra (38), hrebml (38), absurdeist (37), cns1000 (37), erohwedd (37), homeless (37), Larou (37), SleepySheep (37), thatguyzero (37), jasbro (36), MichaelCO (36), framji (35), Aaron.Cohen (34), eatsnacksreadbooks (34), eromsted (34), eswnr (34), harrietlouise (34), js31550 (34), link_rae (34), LSPopovich (34), Nicholae (34), PaulCranswick (34), uscer (34), abductee (33), aimg (33), iijjaallkkaa (33), KelMunger (33), Randy_Hierodule (33), runningbeardbooks (33), boookywooky (32), clawless (32), domgabfil (32), e-zReader (32), ericandsue (32), gsides78 (32), mick745 (32), proustitute (32), thalassa_thalassa (32), Themis-Athena (32), betweencoasts (31), Crypto-Willobie (31), darwin.8u (31), dyoneo (31), inunonaizo (31), JRsLibrary (31), Manas1000 (31), mcshaw66 (31), mffowler (31), minnesotaj (31), nicoelston (31), O_Hozomeen (31), Sandydog1 (31), SCPeterson (31), smithtm (31), toddstewart (31), twharring (31), Ashlad (30), augustgarage (30), coffee.a.go.go (30), D.Prisson (30), davidabrams (30), ELiz_M (30), Himmelkoemov (30), johnpkane (30), Robert_Musil (30), slickdpdx (30), srfudji (30), WestBranch (30), AlonzoGarcia (29), charon79 (29), dharmalita (29), FurfuralAndVanillin (29), gergacheck (29), hivetrick (29), mabroms (29), mediterraneobcn (29), miobrien (29), mmbalogh (29), OysteinH-O (29), piano3646 (29), tyrosine (29), ateolf (28), Chamblyman (28), chrisottolino (28), chrisvia (28), dcozy (28), hazzabamboo (28), jdtchicago (28), kamintra (28), Keelz09 (28), llibresantjoan (28), Mz.Balma (28), night_owl13 (28), opuscule (28), Roeghmann (28), sargesita (28), shearrob (28), shigekuni (28), soffitta1 (28), wesmrlnd (28), wordtron (28), alwaysalreadythecase (27), bookie53 (27), bridgitshearth (27), conorat (27), dehaansg (27), Estragon1958 (27), giogabbiano (27), humblenarrator (27), IamAleem (27), kswolff (27), libidinalautonomy (27), reelbigschmidt (27), ReneeGKC (27), silver55 (27), speedoflife (27), strangefate (27), vernaye (27), alaskabookworm (26), bibliopolitan (26), boban (26), bookstopshere (26), caitief (26), ceandrews_151 (26), Clio12 (26), coreymesler (26), danconley (26), Dorritt (26), gabebaker (26), Grant_McLeester (26), hobus (26), invisiblelizard (26), jjk (26), jonfaith (26), j_miah23 (26), Korrick (26), marisina_soy (26), Matthew_Hedgpeth (26), mr._sammy (26), necrodeathmortem (26), PaulGodfread (26), Rivaton (26), thewordygecko (26), VenRandle (26), weberam2 (26), xicohtli (26), zenosbooks (26), abbot (25), Anietzerck (25), Dan_Park (25), ednasilrak (25), haarpsichord (25), ibinu (25), sprainedbrain (25), vishbhavsar (25)