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List: 100 Books of the Century by Le Monde

Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie

4.22 (9)

I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time.

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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5.0 (1)

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?

#259
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Fureur Et Mystere

Fureur Et Mystere

René Char

3.0 (1)

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Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness

Jean-Paul Sartre

3.0 (1)

Modern thought has realized considerable progress by reducing the existent to the series of appearances which manifest it.

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Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano

Malcolm Lowry

4.2 (5)

Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus.

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Four Plays

Four Plays

Eugene Ionesco

3.0 (3)

The Bald Soprano: Anti-play Scene: A middle class English interior, with English armchairs.

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Heinrich Böll

3.0 (3)

Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden.

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