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

[Laura Kelber]

Tintin beats Asterix at #18, though how they could choose *Blue Lotus*
over *Tintin
in Tibet* or *Flight 714* is beyond me.

All in all, even without Pynchon, it's an impressive list. Surprised to see
London's *Martin Eden* on there. Doubt the book would make any American
best-of list. And considering how left-leaning that book is, it's
surprising that nothing by Robert Briffault or Roger Martin du Gard (a
Nobelist, after all) ended up on the list.

Laura

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> 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".
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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