Reading List

Fiction

1. Ernest Hemingway - “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

“The Old Man and the Sea”

“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

2. F. Scott Fitzgerald – “The Great Gatsby”

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

3. William Faulkner – “As I Lay Dying”

“A Rose for Emily”

17. John Steinbeck- “Of mice and Men”

18. Zora Neale Hurston- “How it feels to be coloured me”

19. Richard Wright- “The man who was almost a man”

4. Flannery O’Connor – “Good Country People”

5. Vladimir Nabokov – “Lolita”

“Speak, Memory – An Autobiography Revisited” (optional)

6. John Barth – “Lost in the Funhouse” life story

“Chimera” (optional)

7. Donald Barthelme – Sadness: “Departures”, “Subpoena”

8. Kurt Vonnegut – “Slaughterhouse Five” (optional)

9. Thomas Pynchon – “The Crying of Lot 49” (Chapters 1 & 2)

10. Saul Bellow – “Herzog”

“Humbold’s Gift” (optional)

11. Richard Yates – “Revolutionary Road”

12. John Updike – “Separating”

“The Music School” (optional)

“The Centaur” (optional)

“Rabbit” (optional)

“Run” (optional)
 “Couples” (optional)

13. Toni Morrison – “Beloved”

“Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”

14. Alice Walker – “Everyday Use”

15. Ralph Ellison – “Invisible Man” (Prologue, Chapter 1, Chapter 3)

16. Paul Auster – “The New York Trilogy” (“City of Glass” – mandatory)

20. Joseph Heller-“Catch 22” optional

21. Walker Percy- “The moviegoer”

Drama:

1. Eugene O’Neill – “Long Day’s Journey into Night”

2. Tennessee Williams – “A Streetcar Named Desire”

3. Arthur Miller – “Death of a Salesman”

4.Edward Albee-“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf”

Poetry:

1. Robert Lowell – “Skunk Hour”

2. Elizabeth Bishop – “The Armadillo”

3. Sylvia Plath – “Lady Lazarus”, “Ariel”, “Daddy”

4. John Ashbery – “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”

5. Frank O’Hara – “In Memory of My Feelings”, “The Day Lady Died”

6. Adrienne Rich- “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”, “Twenty-One Love Poems” (XI, XVIII)

7. W.S. Merwin – “For the Anniversary of My Death”, “September Plowing”, “Losing a Language”

8. Allen Ginsberg – “Howl” (I), “A Supermarket in California”

Listă de lecturi japoneză

1. Akutagawa Ryuunosuke – Rashoumon

Kumo no ito

Mikan

Hankechi

Kappa

Hanna

Kamigami no bisho

Toshisun

A Miracle= ogata ryosai oboegaki

2. Tanizaki Junichirou – Innei Raisan (Elogiul Umbrelor)

Seven Japanese Stories

3. Dazai Osamu – Shayou (Amurg)

4. Kawabata Yasunari – Izu no Odoriko (Dansatoarea din Izu)

Senbazuru (O mie de cocori)

Koto (Vechiul Oraș Imperial)

5. Mishima Yukio – Kinkakuji (Templul de aur)

Kamen no kokuhaku (Confesiunile unei masti)

6. Inoue Yasushi - Ryoujuu (Pușca de vânătoare)

7. Abe Kobo – Suna no onna (Femeia nisipurilor)

8. Oe Kenzauburo – Kojintekina Taiken ( O experiență personală)

9. Murakami Haruki – un roman la alegere, eseuri

10. Yoshimoto Banana – Kitchen