Vừa qua, tạp chí Time đã công bố 100 cuốn tiểu thuyết hay nhất kể từ năm 1923 đến nay. Danh sách do Richard Lacayo và Lev Grossman - hai nhà phê bình gạo cội của tạp chí này - bình chọn.
Phạm vi bình chọn là những tác phẩm xuất bản bằng tiếng Anh tại bất kỳ quốc gia nào trên thế giới kể từ năm 1923 (thời điểm tạp chí Time phát hành số đầu tiên). Điều này cũng có nghĩa, kiệt tác Ulysses của James Joyce đã bị "lọt khe", đơn giản vì tác phẩm này ra đời năm 1922.
Để thực hiện cuộc bình chọn này, nhà phê bình Richard Lacayo và người bạn đồng nghiệp Lev Grossman đã lên hai danh sách riêng biệt quan điểm của từng người. Sau khi khớp lại, Richard Lacayo cho biết, quan điểm của họ gặp nhau tại 80/100 tác phẩm.
Sau đây là danh sách cụ thể:
A - B:
1. The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
2. All The King"s Men - Robert Penn Warren
3. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
4. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
5. Animal Farm - George Orwell
6. Appointment in Samarra - John O"Hara
7. Are You There God? It"s me, Margaret - Judy Blume
8. The Assistant - Bernard Malamud
9. At Swim- Two- Birds - Flann O"Brien
10. Atonement - Ian McEwan
11. Beloved - Toni Morrison
12. The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood
13. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
14. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
15. Blood Meridia - Cormac McCarthy
16. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
C - D
18. Call it Sleep - Henry Roth
19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
20. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
21. A Clock Orange - Anthony Burgess
22. The Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
23. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
24. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
25. A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell
26. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
28. A Death in the Family - James Agee
29. The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
30. Deliverance - James Dickey
31. Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
F - G
32. Falconer - John Cheever
33. The French Lieutenant"s Woman - John Fowles
34. The Gold Notebook - Doris Lessing
35. Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin
36. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
37. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
38. Gravity"s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
39. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
H - I
40. A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
41. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
42. The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
43. Herzog - Saul Bellow
44. Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
45. A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul
46. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
47. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
48. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
L - N
49. Light in August - William Faulkner
50. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
51. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
52. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
53. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
54. Loving - Henry Green
55. Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
56. The Man Who Loved Children - Christina Stead
57. Midnight"s Children - Salman Rushdie
58. Money - Martin Amis
59. The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
60. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
61. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
62. Native Son - Richard Wright
63. Neuromancer - William Gibson
64. Never Let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
65. 1984 - George Orwell
O - R
66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest - Ken Kesey
68. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
69. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
70. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
71. Play it As It Lays - Joan Didion
72. Portnoy"s Complaint - Philip Roth
73. Possession - A.S. Byatt
74. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
75. The Prrime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
76. Rabbit, Run - John Updike
77. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
78. The Recognitions - William Gaddis
79. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
80. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
S - T
81. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
82. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
83. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
84. The Scot-Weed Factor - John Barth
85. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
86. The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
87. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
88. The Sun Also Rise - Ernest Hemingway
89. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
90. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
91. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
92. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
93. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
U - W
94. Ubik - Philip K. Dick
95. Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
96. Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
97. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
98. White Noise - Don DeLillo
99. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
100. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
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Hinh nhu minh moi' doc duoc co 2-3 cuon trong so nay (Catcher), sigh...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, em nhan duoc sach' roi anh Linh ah. Thanks anh nhieu :-X Such a great New Year gift :-)
You're welcome, honey ;)
ReplyDelete5. Animal Farm - George Orwell
ReplyDeleteGeorge Orwell is surely not my favorite.
20. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Has read in my puzzled 18-year-old age. Found so much of me in it.
21. A Clock Orange - Anthony Burgess
Have not read yet but the movie is great.
36. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
My 14-year-old age favorite.
37. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Too heavy. I like Of mice and man or East of Eden better.
60. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Have not finished. Seems great though.
64. Never Let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Have not begun yet. Still on bookshelf.
65. 1984 - George Orwell
A good prediction but surely not my favorite.
66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Have not finished. Will retry someday.
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest - Ken Kesey
“A bible of 70s rebel youth”. Perhaps not only 70s.
85. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
It’s great.
Em G doc nhieu nhi. To moi doc chung 5-6 cuon trong so nay thoi. Ah, ke nhin lai thi so thuc te da doc roi cua em G cung khong nhieu lam :P
ReplyDelete19. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
So funny.
20. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Great. Everyone should read it.
36. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
don't like it.
48. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Great but perhaps too long.
53. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Okay but too long. The book is darker and more complicated than the movie.
57. Midnight"s Children - Salman Rushdie
Great but a little hard read, so many newly invented words by the author.
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest - Ken Kesey
A Great book for 20s.
91. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
I read it when I was small, don't remember much now.
Hoa ra so minh doc cung khong den noi te lam.
Hien nam tren gia sach nhung chua doc: :D
5. Animal Farm - George Orwell
11. Beloved - Toni Morrison
23. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
24. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
37. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
39. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
46. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
52. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
65. 1984 - George Orwell
66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
74. The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
82. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
85. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
To tuong cai list o tren cua em G. la em y add them keo bi thieu :-D
ReplyDeleteOoops, bac Linh doc nhieu the, thoi gian dau ma kua gai. Thao nao ... :P Con` to thi ko dam nhin nua, vi e rang trong do minh chua doc quyen nao :">