Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Some interesting novels

Students are invited to a second reading during the Class of History of Technology. In the following some titles are shown and suggested:

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon, V
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg
Thomas Mann, Die Buddenbrook (italiano)
Thomas Mann, Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (inglese)
Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenshaften (inglese)
James Joyce, Ulysses
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Herman Melville, Moby Dick, or the Whale
Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu (and also e-books@Adelaide)
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Don DeLillo, Underworld
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe, A tour through the whole island of Great Britain
Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett, World Without End
Ken Follett, Fall of giants
Ken Follett, Winter of the World
Jules Verne, Voyages extraordinaires
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Lew Tolstoy, War and Peace
Karl Marx, Capital; a critique of political economy

(for all these books an Italian translation exists)

1 comment:

  1. Good Evening,
    Im a student of "Tecnology History" course and I've few doubt about the blog that I wanted to clarify! Fisrt of all I didn't understand what's the role of the book... we have to read the book and extract from it several themes to talk about or just one that we've to develope then by using different sources!!
    Secondly there is a minimum number of posts per month that we must publish.
    Thank you in advance for the answer.

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