Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

There will probably be a few posts in this thread with different categories (currently thinking of Polish & East European classics, Spanish classics incl LatAm), but first, authors from The Booklovers by The Divine Comedy (1994). As a teenager in the 90s, I thought I'd have read at least one whole proper book by each of these by the time I was 25, if not well before. Owch. Considering it's a set of books that's mattered to me for over half my life, I tend to forget about it quite a bit in favour of newer goals, so a list like this may remind me Reading pace can vary a lot due to health, other things I have to do, so no set targets and I don't call it a challenge. There are a few of these authors I don't actually want to read, but I they are in the list for the sake of completeness.

'The Booklovers'
Authors by whom I've still not finished one whole book. Abridged versions don't count.

(In January this year - 2019 - I knocked one off the list, Henry Fielding, with Tom Jones.)

Women writing in English
Aphra Behn (Oroonoko, July 2019)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Edith Wharton (Ethan Frome, August 2019)
Doris Lessing
Ivy Compton-Burnett (Manservant & Maidservant, September 2019)

Translated
Honoré de Balzac (Old Man Goriot, July 2019)
Nikolai Gogol (Dead Souls, November 2019)
Émile Zola (Thérèse Raquin, September 2019)
Marcel Proust
Simone de Beauvoir (Les Belles Images, August 2019)
Günter Grass (The Tin Drum, August 2020)

British men
Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe, October 2019)
Samuel Richardson (Pamela, December 2019)
Lawrence Sterne
William Makepeace Thackeray
Anthony Trollope (The Warden, December 2019)
Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier, December 2019)
Malcolm Bradbury (The History Man, August 2019)

American men
Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven: Tales & Poems, October 2019)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter, November 2019)
Herman Melville
William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, September 2019)
Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America, July 2019)
Paul Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar, April 2020)
Gore Vidal (Myra Breckinridge, November 2019)
John Updike (Rabbit, Run, October 2019)

Extras
Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics) (November 2019)
J.G. Ballard, Crash (December 2019)
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol & Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics) (Dec 2018-Jan 2019, & December 2019)
Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (March 2020)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (May 2020)
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (June 2020)
J.G. Ballard, High-Rise (July 2020)
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory (August 2020)
Albert Camus, The Plague (Sept 2020)


'Bluestocking'
by Momus (lyrics in link) . Another book-list song from the willfully pretentious side of early-90s indie, but which I only discovered later. The late 2010s are very different times, I can't imagine many people taking its attitude or nearly-all-male author list seriously if hearing it for the first time nowadays. And even if one of my responses to the lyrics now is "I'm too old to care what you think now, and I like that", in all honesty it still nags at me that I'd like to have read most of the books, and I still haven't.

So, as above: not read [one] whole book yet, abridged versions don't count:

Ovid
[The Perfumed Garden]
Petronius' Satyricon
The Arabian Nights
The Decameron
[Marquis de Sade, 120 Days]
[Frank Harris, The Life and Loves]
The Wings of the Dove
The Latins of the Silver Age*
Comte de Lautréamont
G. Cabrera Infante
Yukio Mishima
Blue Eyes, Black Hair by Marguerite Duras (quoted in French) (September 2019)

*I have read some Tacitus, but this is still on here because it covers quite a lot of authors.

Continuing the theme of books I heard about via musicians in the early 90s, yet *still* haven't read, a very much non-exhaustive list WRT Manic Street Preachers, esp Richey. (via this; just the ones that still seem important/appealing, and in some cases wouldn't go for the particular listed work by an author.)

Yukio Mishima
Another Country - James Baldwin
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (May 2020)
Crash - J.G. Ballard (December 2019)
The Atrocity Exhibition - J. G. Ballard
The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot
Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Junichiro Tanizaki
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
Masuji Ibuse
The Torture Garden - Octave Mirbeau
Poetry of William Blake
Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon

Polish Classics

Pre-19th century
Laments by Jan Kochanowski (1580) (August 2019)
The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy Krasicki (1776)

19th century
Dziady by Adam Mickiewicz (1823)
The Journal of Countess Francoise Krasinska by Klementyna Tanska Hoffmanowa (1825) (August 2019)
Konrad Wallenrod by Adam Mickiewicz (1828)*
Aleksander Fredro: Three Plays (1833, 1835) (April 2020)
Poems by Cyprian Norwid (d. 1883)
On the Niemen by Eliza Orzeszkowa (1888)
The Doll by Bolesław Prus (1890)

1900-1939
(The Peasants: Autumn by Wladysław Stanisław Reymont (1904); series out of print in English & prohibitively expensive)*
The Morality of Mrs. Dulska: A Play by Gabriela Zapolska (1906) (August 2019)
Zapolska's Women: Three Plays: Malka Szwarcenkopf, The Man, and Miss Maliczewska by Gabriela Zapolska (1897, 1907, 1910)
Kobiety, Women: A Novel of Polish Life by Zofia Nałkowska (1906)
The Faithful River by Stefan Żeromski (1912)*
The Coming Spring by Stefan Żeromski (1924)
Insatiability Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1930)
Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz (1933)
The Birch Grove and Other Stories by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1925-36) (April 2020)
The Salt of the Earth by Józef Wittlin (1935)
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schultz (1937)
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz (1937)


1939-1999
Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 by Józef Czapski (1949)
A World Apart by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1951)
Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz (1953)
The Issa Valley by Czesław Miłosz (1956)
The Eighth Day of the Week by Marek Hłasko (1956)
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czesław Miłosz (1959)
Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz (1960)
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuściński (1962)
A Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki (1963)
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz (1965)
Beautiful Twentysomethings by Marek Hłasko (1966)*
Tristan 1946 by by Maria Kuncewiczowa (1967)
Tango by Sławomir Mrożek (1968)
Diary by Witold Gombrowicz (1969)
Clementine Loves Red by Krystyna Boglar (1970)*
Detective Nosegood series by Marian Orłoń (1970s)*
The Polish Complex by Tadeusz Konwicki (1977)*
My Century by Aleksander Wat (1977)
Rudolf by Marian Pankowski (1980)*
The History of Polish Literature by Czesław Miłosz (1969, rev. 1981)
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982)
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski (1984)
Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki (1987)
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński (1992)
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (1993)
Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk (1996)
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk (1998) (September 2019)
In Red by Magdalena Tulli (1998)
Madame by Antoni Libera (1998)
The Collected Poems, 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert

Later collected works by authors who wrote mostly in the 20th Century
Proud to be a Mammal by Czesław Miłosz (August 2019)
Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wysława Szymborska
Is God Happy? Selected Essays by Leszek Kołakowski

Unspecified works
Tadeusz Różewicz
Stanisław Lem

Russian
Sketches from a Hunter's Album by Ivan Turgenev (1835)
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (1842) (November 2019)
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov (1859)
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862)
City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1863)
Russian Fairy Tales collected by Alexander Afanasyev (d.1871)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1879)
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922 by Marina Tsvetayeva*
The Golden Calf by Ilf & Petrov (1931)
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi (d.1952)
Stalingrad by Vassily Grossman (1952)
Anna Akhmatova: Collected / large Selected*
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957)
Life & Fate by Vassily Grossman (1960)
Sónechka by Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1995)
The Odessans by Irina Ratushinskaya (1996)*

(The rest are awaiting more research/time & just reflect what I've tagged for these countries on my GR shelves & not read.)

Hungary
[Life is a Dream by Gyula Krudy (1931)]
They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy (1934)
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (1937)
Embers by Sandor Marai (1942)
The Case Worker by Gyorgy Konrad (1969)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (1969)
The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai (1989)
War & War by László Krasznahorkai (1999)

Czech/Slovak
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (1923)
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek (1935)
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal (1965)

Romania
Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Mircea Eliade (1928)
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian (1934)
Shamanism by Mircea Eliade (1951)
Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu (1989)

Balkans / former Yugoslavia
The Bridge over the River Drina by Ivo Andrić (1945)
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš (1976)
Encyclopaedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš (1983)

I've read Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, its short, pretty good though, kind of a twilight zone episode with occasional surrealism.

Edit: Actually apparently thats a short story collection so i just read the title story, available here http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/01...