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A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.
Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways
Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books.
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Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize-winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds ...
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In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes contemporary works, perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction and haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. These eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, ...
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I started a trip around the world with 80 books. I left London, the next destination is Paris. Then Krakow, Venice, Florence, Cairo, Istanbul, Muscat, Congo, Nigeria, Tehran-Shiraz, Rose Desert, Calcutta, Kolkata, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Kyoto, West Coast of the East, Brazil, Columb...
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