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Le
Monde's "Les cent du siècle"
The March 19, 1999 issue of
Le Monde (published in Paris), announced a contest for its
readers. Entrants were to choose either a top 50 or top 100 "livres
du siècle" from the list of 200 titles below, and also rank this
list from 1-50 or 1-100. The editors of Le Monde will then
select their rankings, and grant the award to the entrant whose
submitted list comes closest to theirs. (contest deadline was May
15th; results will be announced on October 22).
The list include works of literary fiction, science fiction, detective/mystery,
essays, philosophy, and the social sciences, but leans towards literature.
The list is relatively broad in national origin as well as genre:
although it is French-centric, inevitably, it includes a fair proportion
of works from other countries and other languages
The list below presents the titles as published in English, when
possible.
Click on any title for more information or to order.
--Ed.
Adorno, Theodor. Dialectic
of Enlightenment
Alain-Fourier,. Le
Grand Meaulnes
Antelme, Robert. The
Human Race
Apollinaire, Guillaume. Alcools
Aragon, Louis. Aurélian
Arendt, Hannah. The
Origins of Totalitarianism
Ariès, Philippe. The
Hour of Our Death
Artaud, Antonin. The
Theater and its Double
Asimov, Isaac. Foundation
Trilogy
Hampate, Bâ. Amkoullel,
l'enfant peul
Barthes, Roland. Writing
Degree Zero
Bataille, Georges. Blue
of Noon
Beauvoir, Simone de. The
Second Sex
Beckett, Samuel. Waiting
for Godot
Benveniste, Emile. Problems
of General Linguistics
Bernanos, Georges. Sous
le soleil de Satan
Bernhard, Thomas. Wittgenstein's
Nephew
Bilal, Christin. Partie
de chasse
Blanchot, Maurice. Thomas
the Obscure
Böll, Heinrich. The
Lost Honor of Katarina Blum
Borges, Jorge Luis. Fictions
Boulgakov, Mikhail. The
Master and Margherita
Bourdieau, Pierre. The
Inheritors: French Students and their relations to Culture <
BR> Bradbury, Ray. The
Martian Chronicles
Brecht, Bertolt. The
Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Breton, André. Nadja
Broch, Hermann. The
Sleepwalkers
Burroughs, William. Naked
Lunch
Butor, Michel. La
Modification
Buzzati, Dino. The
Tartar Steppe
Calvino, Italo. The
Baron in the Trees
Calvo, E. F.. La
bête est morte
Camus, Albert. The
Stranger
Canguilhem, Georges. The
Normal and the Pathological
Capote, Truman. In
Cold Blood
Carpentier, Alejo. El
Siglo De Las Luces
Cassirer, Ernst. Philosophy
of the Enlightenment
Céline, Lous-Ferdinand. Journey
to the End of the Night
Cendrars, Blaise. Moravagine
Césaire, Aimé. Return
to my Native Land
Chandler, Raymond. The
Big Sleep
Char, René. Fureur
et mystère
Chase, James Hadley. No
Orchids for Miss Blandish
Christie, Agatha. The
Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Claudel, Paul. The
Satin Slippers
Cohen, Albert. Belle
du seigneur
Colette,. Sido
Doyle, Arthur Conan. The
Hound of the Baskervilles
Conrad, Joseph. Lord
Jim
Cortazar, Julio. Hopscotch
Debord, Guy. Society
of the Spectacle
Deleuze, Gilles. Anti-Oedipus
Derrida, Jacques. Writing
and Difference
Dick, Philip K.. Ubik
Döblin, Alfred. Berlin
Aldexanderplatz
Doderer, Heimito von. The
Demons
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan
Transfer
Duby, Georges. The
Legend of Bouvines
Dumézil, Georges. Myth
et épopée
Duras, Marguerite. The
Ravaging of Lol Stein
Durrell, Lawrence. The
Alexandria Quartet
Eco, Umberto. The
Name of the Rose
Elias, Norbert. The
Civilizing Process
Eluard, Paul. Capital
of Pain
Fanon, Frantz. The
Damned of the Earth
Faulkner,William. The
Sound and the Fury
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The
Great Gatsby
Foucault, Michel. The
Order of Things
Frank, Anne. Journal
Franquin,. Gaston
Freud, Sigmund. Three
Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Freyre, Gilberto. The
Masters and the Slaves
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The
New Industrial State
Garcia Lorca, Federico. Romancero
Gitano
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One
Hundred Years of Solitude
Genet, Jean. Our
Lady of Flowers
Gide, André. The
Counterfeiters
Giono, Jean. The
Horseman on the Roof
Gombrich, Ernst. History
of Art
Gombrowicz, Witold.
Ferdydurke
Gracq, Julien. The
Opposing Shore
Grossman, Vassili. Life
and Fate
Guimarães, Rosa.
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Guyotat, Pierre. Eden,
Eden, Eden
Hammett, Dashiell. Red
Harvest
Harrison, Jim. Dalva
Hayek, Friedrich von. Prix
et production
Heidegger, Martin. Being
and Time
Hemingway, Ernest. For
Whom the Bell Tolls
Herbert, George. Dune
Hergé,. Tintin
Husserl, Edmund. The
Crisis of European Sciences
Huzley, Aldous. Brave
New World
Inoué, Yasushi. Hunting
Gun
Ionesco, Eugène. The
Bald Soprano
Jacobs, E. P. Blake
and Mortimer
Jakobson, Roman.
Essays in General Linguistics
James, Henry. What
Maisie Knew
Jankélévitch, Vladimir. Le
Je-ne-sais-quoi et le Presque-rien
Joyce, Jams. Ulysses
Jung, Carl Gustav. Man
and His Symbols
Jünger, Ernst. On
the Marble Cliffs
Kadaré, Ismail. The
General of the Dead Army
Kafka, Franz. The
Trial
Kawabata, Yasunari. House
of the Sleeping Beauties, and Other Stories
Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba
the Greek
Kerouac, Jack. On
the Road
Keynes, John Maynard. The
General Theory
Kundera, Milan. The
Joke
Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits
Lagerlöf, Selma. The
Marvellous Voyage of Nils Holgersson
Lao, She. Quatre
générations sous un même toit
Lawrence, D. H..
Lady Chatterly's Lover
Le Clezio, J. M. G. Le
Procès Verbal
Le Goff, Jacques. The
Birth of Purgatory
Leduc, Violette. La
Bâtarde
Leiris, Michel. Manhood
Leroi-Gourhan, André. Gesture
and Speech
Levi, Primo. If
This is a Man
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes
tropiques
Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality
and Infinity
Lezama Lima, José. Paradiso
London, Jack. Martin
Eden
Lowry, Malcolm. Underneath
the Volcano
Malraux, André. Man's
Fate
Mann, Thomas. The
Magic Mountain
Marcuse, Herbert. One
Dimensional Man
Mauriac, Francois. Thérèse
Desqueyroux
Mauss, Marcel. Sociologie
et anthropologie
McCay, Winsor. Little
Nemo in Slumberland
Mead, Margaret. Coming
of Age in Samoa
Michaux, Henri. Epreuves,
exorcismes
Michon, Pierre. Vies
minuscules
Miller, Henry. The
Rosy Crucifixion
Mishima, Yukio. Confessions
of a Mask
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone
With the Wind
Modiano, Patrick. La
Place de l'étoile
Moravia, Alberto. Contempt
Morin, Edgar. Method
Morrison, Toni. Beloved
Musil, Robert. The
Man Without Qualities
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita
Nizan, Paul. Aden
Arabie
Orwell, Goerge. 1984
Panofsky, Erwin. Meaning
in the Visual Arts
Pavese, Cesare. Le
Bel Eté
Paz, Octavio. The
Labyrinth of Solitude
Péguy, Charles. Notre
patrie
Perec, Georges. Life:
A User's Manual
Pessoa, Fernando. Le
Livre de l'intranquillité
Pirandello, Luigi. Six
Characters in Search of an Author
Ponge, Francis. Le
Parti pris des choses
Popper, Karl. Logic
of Scientific Discovery
Pratt, Hugo. Corto
Maltese (La Ballade de la mer salée)
Prévert, Jacques. Paroles
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance
of Things Past
Queneau, Raymond. Zazie
dans le métro
Rawls, John. A
Theory of Justice
Renard, Jules. Journal
Ricoeur, Paul. Temps
et récit
Rilke, Rainer Maria. The
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Robbe-Grillet, Alain. Jealousy
Roth, Philip. Portnoy's
Complaint
Rousset, David. The
Other Kingdom
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's
Children
Sagan, Françoise. Bonjour
tristesse
Saint-John, Perse.
Amers
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. Le
Petit Prince
Salinger, J. D. The
Catcher in the Rye
Sarraute, Nathalie. Tropismes
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being
and Nothingness
Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course
in General Linguistics
Simenon, Georges. Pietr
le Letton
Simon, Claude. The
Acacia
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Enemies
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. The
Gulag Archipelego
Sollers, Philippe. Women
Spiegelman, Art. Maus
Steinbeck, John. The
Grapes of Wrath
Styron, William. Sophie's
Choice
Svevo, Italo. The
Confessions of Zeno
Tanizaki, Junichiro. Diary
of a Mad Old Man
Tardi,. C'était
la guerre des tranchées
Tolkien, J. R..
The Lord of the Rings
Tournier, Michel. Friday,
or Life in the Wilderness
Toynbee, Arnold. A
Study of History
Aderzo and Goscinny,. Astérix
Uhlman, Fred. Reunion
Unamuno, Miguel de. The
Tragic Sense of Life
Vargas Llosa, Mario. Aunt
Julia and the Scriptwriter.
Vercors. Le
Silence de la mer
Vian, Boris. L'Ecume
des jours
Weber, Max. The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Wells, H. G. The
War of the Worlds
Winnicott, Donald. Playing
and Reality
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractacus
logico-philosophicus
Woolf, Virginia. A
Room of One's Own
Wright, Richard. Black
Boy
Yourcenar, Marguerite. L'Oeuvre
au noir
Zweig, Stefan. Beware
of Pity
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