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Mar 31, 2010 08:19AM
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Anna wrote: "Lucky Teapot wrote: "This list is ridiculous."Why is it ridicuous?"
I see it has improved a bit lately. At the time I made that comment, top 50 consisted mostly of really bad books, also the rest of the list didn't represent polish literature at all. It still looks like people are simply voting for the books they've read (out of all), not those they think are any good. It also seems to me that it has too many books from the same authors, including their less successful works, while it lacks some good and critically acclaimed contemporary literature. I suggest that people who create lists should add as many (good) books as possible right at the start so the list has any chance of being representative, especially as it is supposed to be about the whole literature of a nation.
I am Polish. I don't think the list is ridiculous. The top five books are ABSOLUTELY amazing. I couldn't agree more. However, I cannot agree with Bruno Schulz. Also, there is too much Henryk Sienkiewicz here, a historical-fiction writer. Sienkiewicz is overrated. I found his book boring.
5538858 wrote: "I am Polish. I don't think the list is ridiculous. The top five books are ABSOLUTELY amazing. I couldn't agree more. However, I cannot agree with Bruno Schulz. Also, there is too much Henryk Sienki..."Yeah, the list has changed, the top 5 is now rather good. Agree about Sienkiewicz, I wouldn't recommend him to anyone.
I love Skienkiewicz when reading in polish. I tried to read an English translation and it was pretty awful.
I've removed books by Boris Akunin and China Mieville - they are neither Polish authors nor were their books set in Poland.
Kasia The Bookworm wrote: "Note that Gunther Grass is not Polish writer but German."I removed The Tin Drum -- I hadn't voted for it myself but suspect whoever did so added it because it's set in Gdańsk/Danzig, Grass's home town (and as Hanae indicates above, "Polish books" could theoretically refer to either the author's nationality -- which in Grass's case is German -- OR the book's location, which in The Tin Drum is Polish now, though the better part of the action takes place during a time when the city was German). As this was the only book by Günter Grass on the list, I take it that you mean "Polish" to refer the author's nationality, though, Kasia ...
i have only read these in translation so i do not know if they are 'best', i only know they are accessible...
WHAT THE HELL IS "QUO VADIS" DOING HERE?!It is an compulsory reading in Poland and I can say -it is painful.
In position #171 is Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi. Levi was an Italian jew, not a Pole. He was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland which is the book's subject. So is it Polish literature?
George wrote: "In position #171 is Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi. Levi was an Italian jew, not a Pole. He was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland which is the book's subject. So is it P..."It's definitely not. Will remove it
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