NP: Perec//Life: A User's Manual

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Sun Jul 23 01:09:06 CDT 2017


> I've been steadily reading my way through Le Monde's 100 greatest books 
> and there are some absolute gems that I would have otherwise overlooked, 
> coming from an anglophone background, and it's been great to see which 
> titles are held in high regard by French readers.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century

"Tristes Tropiques", "Brave New World" and "1984" followed by "Asterix 
the Gaul" as the 23rd greatest book of the 20th century? They can't be 
serious.

It has to be either "Asterix on Corsica", "Asterix in Switzerland" or 
"Asterix the Gladiator".
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