1900-Present
Part 1 Reading List
1. Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun or Americanah
2. Mann, Death in Venice
3. Proust, Swann's Way
4. Kafka, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories
5. Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children or The Caucasian Chalk Circle
6. Gide, The Immoralist
7. de Beauvoir, selections from The Second Sex (tbd)
8. Coetzee, Disgrace
9. Camus, The Stranger, "The Myth of Sisyphus"
10. Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
11. Borges, Ficciones
12. Neruda, Selected Poetry
13. Duras. Hiroshima, Mon Amor
14. Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
15. Brodsky, Selected Poems
16. Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold or Memories of My Melancholy Whores
17. Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis
18. Xin, An Empty Room: Stories.
19. Schlink, The Reader.
20. Cortazar, The Blow-Up & Other Stories
21. Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poetry
22. Sebbar, Sherazade
23. Daoud, The Meursault Investigation
24. Menchu, I, Rigoberta Menchu
25. Mahfouz, Children of Gebelawi
Part 2
The next time this exam is offered, the text for Part 2 will be Children of Gebelawi.