Novels That Will Be Considered the Most Important in the Year 2100 (Dalkey)

[Jimmy]

Novels That Will Be Considered the Most Important Literary Works of the Twentieth Century in the Year 2100

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
Beckett Trilogy -- Malone Dies, Molloy, The Unnamable
The Lime Works, Thomas Bernhard
Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
JR, William Gaddis
The Recognitions, William Gaddis
Ulysses, James Joyce
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
The Inquisitory, Robert Pinget
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Mulligan Stew, Gilbert Sorrentino

--taken from Dalkey Archive's Context No 1; attention brought by Nathan NR / bibliokept.

They have a bunch of other lists too: http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GC...

[Jonfaith]

I like oblique stature of the selections. I'd contend that Hopscotch and Perec's Manual will supplant the gabfests of Gaddis/Sorrentino but that's me. I also find it impossible to believe that Ms. Barnes will outshine Solzhenitsyn, if only for moral reasons.

While i ponder, I can't help but think that Asian authors may be revered in unimaginable ways by then.

[Jimmy]

I think climate change will make it all not matter.