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Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,145,913 ratings — published 1866
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as comparative-literature)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,840 ratings — published 1942
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,176 ratings — published 1978
Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as comparative-literature)
avg rating 3.47 — 242 ratings — published 2018
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 410,731 ratings — published 1879
Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as comparative-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 560,406 ratings — published 1985
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,142,871 ratings — published 1967
Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.59 — 166 ratings — published 1993
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 287,564 ratings — published 1910
Don Quixote (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 313,716 ratings — published 1605
Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.28 — 43 ratings — published 2006
Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 91 ratings — published 2013
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 224,101 ratings — published 1831
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 962,478 ratings — published 1878
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,533,043 ratings — published 1915
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 387,763 ratings — published 1856
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 445,386 ratings — published 1925
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,265,275 ratings — published -750
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 249,546 ratings — published 1981
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 212,223 ratings — published 1321
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 223,314 ratings — published 1812
Candide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 309,118 ratings — published 1759
The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Translation/Transnation)
by (shelved 4 times as comparative-literature)
avg rating 3.48 — 63 ratings — published 2005
The Idiot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 229,855 ratings — published 1869
Demons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 67,243 ratings — published 1871
Distant Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 284 ratings — published 2013
Anatomy of Criticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,991 ratings — published 1957
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 132,144 ratings — published 1929
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,230 ratings — published 1982
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
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avg rating 3.29 — 34 ratings — published 1994
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 162,341 ratings — published 1774
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 123,392 ratings — published -1800
Of Love and Other Demons (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 90,049 ratings — published 1994
Snow Country (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 44,113 ratings — published 1948
Paradise (The Divine Comedy, #3)
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avg rating 3.96 — 22,493 ratings — published 1321
Mythology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 61,212 ratings — published 1942
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
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avg rating 3.69 — 182,969 ratings — published -441
Faust (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 53,001 ratings — published 1808
Les Misérables (Enriched Classics)
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avg rating 4.30 — 1,879 ratings — published
Death in Venice and Other Tales (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 16,281 ratings — published 1998
Death in Venice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 73,058 ratings — published 1911
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,988,202 ratings — published 1818
The Death of the Author
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avg rating 3.93 — 3,523 ratings — published 1967
Shakespeare's Ideas (Blackwell Great Minds)
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avg rating 3.70 — 20 ratings — published 2008
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 8,445 ratings — published 1947
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 8,151 ratings — published 1915
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 30,737 ratings — published -335
Midaq Alley (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 13,941 ratings — published 1947
War and Peace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 376,318 ratings — published 1868
Artful (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 4,014 ratings — published 2012
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“World literature is not an object, it’s a problem, and a problem that asks for a new critical method; and no one has ever found a method by just reading more texts”
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“If Borges’s constant vaivén (between politics and metaphysics, between north and south, between the small and the vast, between the universal and the insular) proves something, it is that literature’s relationship to borders of any kind is an arbitrary imposition. Nationalities, hemispheres, periods, schools, genres, and themes are artificial boundaries that may be useful for taxonomical purposes, but literature, as Borges repeatedly shows, should be read and written with a joyful disregard for these classifications.”
― Borges, Between History and Eternity
― Borges, Between History and Eternity
