World Literature

World literature is sometimes used to refer to the sum total of the world's national literatures, but usually it refers to the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their country of origin. Often used in the past primarily for masterpieces of Western European literature, world literature today is increasingly seen in global context. ...more

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Crime and Punishment
The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Don Quixote
The Alchemist
The Kite Runner
Anna Karenina
The Odyssey
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Little Prince
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
The Trial

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Aminatta Forna
Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don’t understand either.
Aminatta Forna

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words
Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others, but to give birth to their own poetic voices and to hold history accountable for the catastrophes rearranging their lives.
Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

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