Novels

When I was teaching the Cultural Sociology course, I told my students that they could learn a lot from reading great novels such as :

 

Al-Aswany, Alaa. 2007 (2002). Yacoubians hus. Copenhagen: Hr. Ferdinand Forlag.

—. 2008 (2007). Chicago. London: Fourth Estate.

Eco, Umberto. 1980. Il nome della rosa. Milano: Bompiani.

—. 1982(1980)-a. Le nom de la rose. Paris: Grasset.

—. 1982(1980)-b. Rosens navn. Copenhagen: Forum.

—. 1984(1980). The name of the rose. London: Book Club Associates.

Falcones, Ildefonso. 2006. La Catedral del mar. Barcelona: Random House Mondadori.

—. 2010 (2006). Havets Katedral. Copenhagen: Cicero.

Lagerlöf, Selma. 2000 (1901-1902). Jerusalem. Oversat fra svensk af Anne-Marie Bjerg. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers förlag.

Maalouf, Amin. 1983. Les croisades vues par les Arabes. Paris: J'ai lu.

—. 1989 (1986). Afrikas løve. Oversat fra fransk af Birgit Schlifer. Copenhagen: Forum.

—. 1992. Léon l'Africain, Samarcande & Les jardins de lumière. Paris: Jean-Claude Lattès.

Makine, Andreï. 1995. Le testament français. Roman. Paris: Mercure de France.

—. 1997 (1995). Det franske testamente. Oversat fra fransk af Birgit Schlifer. Copenhagen: Forum.

Mann, Thomas. 1991(1924). Trolddomsbjerget. På dansk ved Ulrich Horst Petersen. Copenhagen: Gyldendals Bogklub.

—. 1996 (1901). Buddenbrooks. The Decline of a family: Vintage Classics.

—. 2002 (1901). Buddenbrooks. En families forfald. På dansk ved Niels Brunse: Gyldendals Bogklub.

Maupassant, Guy de. 1944. "Diligencen." Pp. 11-94 in Diligencen og andre fortællinger. Oversat af Ole Vinding. Copenhagen: Forlaget Danmark.

Musil, Robert. 1937. Über die Dummheit. Wien: Bermann-Fischer.

—. 1968(1933-43). Manden uden egenskaber (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) på dansk ved Mogens Boisen. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.

—. 1978(1933-43). L'homme sans qualités (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften). Paris: Gallimard (collection Folio).

Némirovsky, Irène. 2004. Suite française (Roman). Paris: Denoël.

—. 2005 (2004). Storm i juni (Suite française) (Roman). Copenhagen: Tiderne Skifter.

Proust, Marcel. 1954. A la recherche du temps perdu. Volume I, II & III. Paris: Gallimard (Collection La Pléiade).

—. 2003 (1913). In search of lost times. Vol. 1: The way by Swann's. Translated by Lydia Davis. London: Penguin Classics.

—. 2010 (1913-27). På sporet af den tabte tid. 12 Bind i alt. Oversat fra fransk af Else Henneberg Pedersen. Copenhagen: Multivers.

Zola, Émile. 1964(1883). "Au bonheur des dames." Pp. 387-803 in Émile Zola: Les Rougon-Macquart. Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le second Empire. Tome III. Paris: Gallimard (Collection La Pléiade).

—. 1995(1883). The ladie's paradise (Au bonheur des dames). Translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Nelson. Oxfors: Ocford University Press.

Zweig, Stefan. 1944. Die Welt von Gestern. Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer Verlag AB.

—. 1948. Verden af i gaar. En europæers erindringer. Copenhagen: Jespersen og Pios Forlag.

—. 1964(1943). The world of yesterday, An autobiography. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.

—. 1982(1944). Le monde d'hier. Souvenirs d'un Européen. Traduction de Jean-Paul Zimmermann. Belfond: Paris.

—. 2005(1944). Le monde d'hier (traduction de Serge Niémetz de Die Welt von Gestern). Paris: Le Livre de Poche Numéro 14040 (Belfond).

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