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THE BEST NOVELS OF 1980s

1.       The Name of the Rose (1982) Umberto Eco

2.       Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Gabriel García Márquez

3.       Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison

4.       Blood Meridian (1985) Cormac McCarthy

5.       Kelidar (1984) Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

6.       Cities of Salt (1984-1989) Abdul Rahman Munif

7.       Dictionary of the Khazars (1984) Milorad Pavić

8.       Midnight's Children (1981) Salman Rushdie

9.       Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Julian Barnes

10.   The House of the Spirits (1982) Isabel Allende

11.   Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) J. M. Coetzee

12.   The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984) Milan Kundera

13.   Lanark (1981) Alasdair Gray

14.   Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (1970-1983) Uwe Johnson

15.   The War of the End of the World (1981) Mario Vargas Llosa

16.   Perfume (1985) Patrick Süskind

17.   The Old Gringo (1985) Carlos Fuentes

18.   The Aesthetics of Resistance (1981) Peter Weiss

19.   Satantango (1985) László Krasznahorkai

20.   White Noise (1985) Don DeLillo

21.   Stone Upon Stone (1984) Wiesław Myśliwski

22.   The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) José Saramago

23.   Life and Fate  (written in 1959, published in 1988) Vasili Grossman 

24.   A Book of Memories (1986) Péter Nádas

25.   The White Castle (1985) Orhan Pamuk

26.   Money (1984) Martin Amis

27.   The Color Purple (1982) Alice Walker

28.   Wittgenstein's Nephew (1982) Thomas Bernhard

29.   Norwegian Wood (1987) Haruki Murakami

30.   Requiem (1985) Peer Hultberg

THE BEST NOVELS OF 1990s

1.       Blindness (1995) José Saramago

2.       Infinite Jest (1996) David Foster Wallace

3.       My Name Is Red (1998) Orhan Pamuk

4.       The Savage Detectives (1998) Roberto Bolaño

5.       The Royal Physician's Visit (1999) Per-Olov Enquist

6.       The Elementary Particles (1998) Michel Houellebecq

7.       Underworld (1998) Don DeLillo

8.       Ingenious Pain (1997) Andrew Miller

9.       America Pastoral (1997) Philip Roth

10.   The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997) Haruki Murakami

11.   Mason & Dixon (1997) Thomas Pynchon

12.   The Rings of Saturn (1995) W. G. Sebald

13.   The Black Book (1990) Orhan Pamuk

14.   I Saw Ramallah (1997) Mourid Barghouti

15.   All the Pretty Horses (1992) Cormac McCarthy

16.   A Heart So White (1992) Javier Marías

17.   The Land of Green Plums (1994) Herta Müller

18.   Disgrace (1999) J. M. Coetzee

19.   Possession (1990) A. S. Byatt

20.   The Things They Carried (1990) Tim O'Brien

THE 30 GREATEST DIRECTORS OF ALL TIME

1. Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
2. Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
3. Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
4. Orson Welles (1915-1985)
5. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)
6. Jean-Luc Godard (1930- )
7. Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
8. Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
9. Martin Scorsese (1942- )
10. Francis Ford Coppola (1939- )
11. Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963)
12. Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
13. Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)
14. Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)
15. Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1968)
16. Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
17. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
18. Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956)
19. John Ford (1894-1973)
20. Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)
21. F. W. Murnau (1888-1931)
22. Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
23. Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
24. Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
25. François Truffaut (1932-1984)
26. D. W. Griffith (1875-1948)
27. Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016)
28. David Lynch (1946- )
29. Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)
30. Howard Hawks (1896-1977)

Best Persian Novels Ever

1.       The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat (1937)

2.       Kelidar, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1984)

3.       My Uncle Napoleon, Iraj Pezeshkzad, (1973)

4.       Savušun, Simin Daneshvar, (1969)

5.       Prince Ehtejab, Houshang Golshiri (1969)

6.       Tangsir, Sādeq Chubak (1963)

7.       Lady Ahou’s Husband, Ali Mohammad Afghani  (1961)

8.       The Winds Announce a Change of Season, Jamal Mirsadeghi  (1984)

9.       Yakolya and Her Loneliness, Taghi Modarresi  (1956)

10.   The Colonel,  Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (2009)

11.   Symphony of the Dead, Abbas Maroufi  (1989)

12.   Heavenly Kingdom, Bahram Sadeghi (1961)

13.   The Patient Stone, Sādeq Chubak (1966)

14.   Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour (2009)

15.   Touba and the Meaning of Night, Shahrnush Parsipur  (1989)

16.  Chashm'hā'yash (Her Eyes), Bozorg Alavi (1952)

17.   King of the Benighted, Houshang Golshiri, (1990)

18.   Women Without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur (1990)

19.   The Courage of Love, Shahriar Mandanipour (1998)

20.   Things We Left Unsaid, Zoya Pirzad (2002)

The 100 Greatest Writers of All Time

1.       William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

2.       Homer, c. 750(?) B.C.

3.       Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

4.       Feodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881

5.       Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910

6.       Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616

7.       Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832

8.       Franz Kafka, 1883-1924

9.       Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850

10.   James Joyce, 1882-1941

11.   Sophocles, 496-406 B.C.

12.   William Faulkner, 1897-1962

13.   Marcel Proust, 1871-1922

14.   Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904

15.   Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880

16.   Charles Dickens, 1812-1870

17.   Virgil, 70-19 B.C.

18.   Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867

19.   Moliere, 1622-1673

20.   Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906

21.   Stendhal, 1783-1842

22.   Euripides, c. 480-406 B.C.

23.   Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989

24.   Henry James, 1843-1916

25.   Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941

26.   Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375

27.   Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014

28.  Albert Camus, 1913-1960

29.   Arthur Rimbaud, 1854–1891

30.   George Eliot, 1819-1880

31.   Francois Rabelais, 1494-1553

32.   Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131

33.   Jane Austen, 1775-1817

34.   Thomas Mann, 1875-1955

35.   Rumi, 1207-1273

36.   Tu Fu, 712-770

37.   Emile Zola, 1840-1902

38.   Geoffrey Chaucer, 1340-1400

39.   Murasaki Shikibu, 978-1030

40.   T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965

41.   Aeschylus, c. 525-456 B.C.

42.   Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852

43.   Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986

44.   Robert Musil, 1880-1942

45.   Basho, 1644-1694

46.   Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849

47.   William Blake, 1757-1827

48.   Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D.

49.   August Strindberg, 1849-1912

50.   Victor Hugo, 1802-1885

51.   Hafez, 1325/26–1389/90

52.   Alexander Pushkin, 1799-1837

53.   Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924

54.   John Keats, 1795-1821

55.   Vyasa, 3rd millennium BCE

56.   Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936

57.   Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822

58.   Ferdowsi, 935-1025

59.   Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956

60.   Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973

61.   Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926

62.   Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731

63.   Walt Whitman, 1819-1892

64.   Aesop, c. 620-564 BCE

65.   John Milton, 1608-1674

66.   Herman Melville, 1819-1891

67.   Italo Calvino, 1923-1985

68.   William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939

69.   Aristophanes, c. 450-c. 385 B.C.

70.   Francesco Petrarch, 1304-1374

71.   Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886

72.   John Donne, 1572-1631

73.   Saadi Shirazi, 1210–1292

74.   Henry Fielding, 1707-1754

75.   Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768

76.   Jean Racine, 1639-1699

77.   Lord Byron, 1788-1824

78.   Horace, 65 BC-8 BC

79.   Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745

80.   Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977

81.   Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935

82.   George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

83.   Giacomo Leopardi, 1798-1837

84.   Knut Hamsun, 1859-1952

85.   Machado de Assis, 1839-1908

86.   D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930

87.   Cao Xueqin, 1715-1763

88.   Emily Bronte, 1818-1848

89.   Georg Büchner, 1813-1837

90.   Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900

91.   Paul Verlaine, 1844-1896

92.   William Wordsworth, 1770-1850

93.   Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893

94.   Mark Twain, 1835-1910

95.   Mario Vargas Llosa, 1936-

96.   Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805

97.   Zeami Motokiyo, 1363-1443

98.   Catullus, c. 84-c. 54 B.C.

99.   Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012

100.                      Heinrich von Kleist, 1777-1811

Autrement, la Molussie (2012)

Autrement, la Molussie (2012)

Director: Nicolas Rey

Country: France

Running time: 81 minutes

Language: German

Subtitle: English, Turkish

9 CD

Based on fragments from Günther Anders’ novel The Molussian Catacomb,written between 1932 and 1936, Nicolas Rey’s captivating nine-part film presents allegorical stories and musings by political prisoners sitting in the pits of an imaginary fascist state called Molussia. Shown in random order whenever it is screened, the film’s sections ruminate on capitalism, imperialism and resistance—accompanied by gritty, unsettling self-processed images of undefined landscapes. A haunting and moving meditation on brutality and control, autrement, la Molussie has galvanized audiences at festivals throughout the world. Since 1993 Rey has been making films that hover between photography, documentaries and the avant-garde. He is one of the founders of the Paris-based artist film lab L’Abominable.

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