It consists of seven volumes published between 1913 and 1927.
For many historians and critics, “In search of lost time” is not only a masterpiece of French letters of the twentieth century, but also one of the greatest literary creations of all time, in which the transposition into the life story of Marcel Proust (1871 -1922), as well as the characters and social environments of his time, marked a new and fruitful path in the field of the novel. “About Swann” is the first volume of the series that completes, in this order, “In the shadow of the girls in bloom”, “The world of Guermantes”, “Sodom and Gomorrah”, “The prisoner”, “The fugitive “and” Time regained “.
2. Journey to the West: The Adventures of the Monkey King, anonymous Chinese
It consists of 2,264 pages in the Spanish edition of the Siruela publishing house.
Journey to the West collects the avatars of the monk Chen Hsüan-Tsang (Tripitaka) on his long pilgrimage to India in search of Buddhist scriptures. Gradually, the weight of the action passes from the traveling monk to his three disciples, ancient immortals fallen from grace, who will be forced to overcome dangers and monsters, each time more powerful and cruel, who oppose their purpose to reach the Mountain of the Spirit, where as a reward for their loyalty they will be elevated to the category of Buddhas. His adventure becomes a real inner journey, in which Buddhist and Taoist visions of reality play an essential role.
3.-. The Miserables by Victor Hugo
In single volume editions, the work contains more than 1,500 pages.
Jean Valjean, a former inmate who was jailed for twenty years for stealing a piece of bread, becomes an exemplary man who fights against misery and injustice and who pledges his life to care for the daughter of a woman who he had to prostitute himself to save the girl. So Jean Valjean is forced to change his name several times, is arrested, runs away and reappears. At the same time, he must evade Commissioner Javert, an inflexible policeman who is pursuing him, convinced that he has some accounts to settle with the law. The confrontation between the two takes place during the riots of 1832 in Paris, where, on the barricades, a group of young idealists oppose the army in defense of freedom. And, among all this, stories of love, sacrifice, redemption, friendship, … Because progress, the law, the soul, God, the French Revolution, the prison, the social contract, crime, the sewers of Paris , the story of love, abuse, poverty, justice … everything has a place in Victor Hugo’s largest and most famous work, The Miserables.
4.- The novela by Genji de Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese literature brings us this 1,664-page novel, presented in two volumes.
Genji’s novel is the great masterpiece of Japanese literature of all time and one of the first novels in history. Written by a woman of refined imperial Japan in the second half of the 10th century, the novel is a fascinating magnum opera, at the height of the works of Tolstoy, Cervantes, Balzac or Proust, combining the novel of vital learning, love tale and erotic, the family saga and the chronicle of customs, building a great historical frieze of a society in full splendor. Five centuries before Shakespeare, Genji’s novel is a prelude to all subsequent great universal literature, with an extraordinary knowledge of the human soul, of its tragic and comic essence.
5.- The man without qualities by Robert Musil
More than 1,500 pages of this work written between 1930 and 1942 and interrupted by the author’s death.
The man without attributes was written between 1930 and 1942 and was interrupted by the author’s death. The main actors of this monumental tragicomedy are: Ulrich, the man without attributes, the idealistic mathematician, the sarcastic spectator; Leona and Bonadea, the mathematician’s two favorites, ousted by Diotima, the guiding brain of the “Parallel Action” and a woman whose stupidity is comparable only to her beauty; and Arnheim, the man with attributes, a Prussian millionaire whose conversation oscillates between modern techniques of artificial insemination and medieval Bulgarian engravings. 5. The man without attributes by Robert Musil
6.- Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
The Royal Spanish Academy edition consists of 1376, although other editions have more than 1500 pages.
7.- Good match for Vikram Seth
Anagrama presents this novel in Spanish with 1352 pages
Rarely has a fictional debut raised so many expectations or achieved such dazzling success: a monumental novel that critics have compared to War and Peace and Dickens’ great works. “You too will marry whoever I say,” Ms. Rupa Mehra tells her daughter Lata at the beginning of this story. From that moment on, the search for a good couple for Lata became the driving force behind this extraordinary fresco of India in the 1950s, a country that is still healing the wounds of its recent independence and the trauma of the Partition; where modernization efforts clash with the ancient customs of centuries of tradition and where weddings are organized for family interests. From the hand of Lata, our young, practical and lively protagonist, and of her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, so devoted to tears and sentimental excesses, we enter a very complete gallery of characters who represent the entire social fabric of the India: nawab, rajas, peasants, untouchables, university professors, shoemakers, hammering Anglophiles, devout Hindus and Muslims, courtesans, writers, emancipated women and women proud to be housewives, ministers, judges, revolutionaries.
8.- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
1302 pages in this work divided into 3 volumes.
In Japanese, the letter q and the number 9 are homophones, both pronounced kyu, so 1Q84 is, without being, 1984, a date with Orwellian echoes. This spelling variation reflects the subtle alteration of the world in which the characters of this novel live, which is, even without being, the Japan of 1984. In this apparently normal and recognizable world moves Aomame, independent woman, gym instructor and Tengo , a math teacher. Both are in their thirties, both lead a lonely life and both perceive in their own way slight imbalances in their environment, which will inexorably lead them to a common destiny. And both are more than they seem: the beautiful Aomame is a killer; the anonymous Tengo, an aspiring novelist who was commissioned by his publisher to do a work related to La chrysalis del aire, an enigmatic work dictated by an elusive teenager. And, as the background of the story, the universe of religious sects, mistreatment and corruption, a rarefied universe in which the narrator delves with Orwellian precision.
1232 pages in the latest novel by the Russian writer.
The best books ever written Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a drunken, arbitrary and corrupt landowner, has four children: Dmitri, a violent character; Ivan, a cold and materialist intellectual; Alëša, the young son, passive and religious; and Smerdyakov, the bastard and resentful son. The novel revolves around the perverse relationships that develop between his father and his children until he is murdered and his alleged killer, Dmitri, is tried and convicted. Hatred, love, cruelty, compassion, radically contrary and conflicting feelings … This edition of one of the most important works of universal literature has the famous translation by José Laín Entralgo. It is also accompanied by an introduction by David McDuff, a translator and literary critic who specializes in the author’s work. “It always seems to me that when I enter a place I am the most miserable of all and that everyone takes me for a fool: then I will play the fool, because all of you, up to the last, are more stupid and miserable than I am.”
Written over three years, this novel has 1211 pages
A critical, entertaining and thoughtful novel about addiction, consumerism and loneliness in American society, written with great wisdom and a sense of humor. One place: Enfield, Massachusetts. A hundred miles from the Great Hollow, a radioactive wasteland filled with tiny mutants the size of airplanes, skullless creatures and hordes of wild hamsters. An era: the year of Depend Adult Underwear, in Subsidized Time, in an America governed by the ecological totalitarianism of ONAN, governed in turn by the obscure Office of Unspecified Services, in perpetual war against ultraviolent anti-ONANism of Québec. An institution: the Enfield Tennis Academy, ultra-elite and where a discipline destined to abolish all pleasure prevails.
