Around the World in 80 Books - David Damrosch

Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading Stephen Greenblatt. A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books. It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all Orhan Pamuk. Inspired by Jules Vernes hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvards Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvards Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemics restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world were e
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