The Norton Anthology of World Literature
Reviews

i read:
/ saadat hasan manto, “toba tek singh”
/ mahmoud darwish, “identity card”
/ clarice lispector, “the daydreams of a drunk woman”
/ james joyce, “the dead”
/ franz kafka, “the metamorphosis”
/ julio cortázar, “the house taken over”
/ albert camus, “the guest”
/ mahasweta devi, “giribala”
/ samuel beckett, “endgame”
/ seamus heaney, “digging” and “punishment”
/ fernando pessoa, “the tobacco shop”
/ william butler yeats, “the second coming” and “sailing to byzantium”
/ rainer maria rilke, “archaic torso of apollo”
wanted to read more but i only borrowed this book for my class until the last day of the semester so i had to return it! :(

Highlights

Ivan Ilyich knew in the very depths of his soul that he was dying but not only could he not get accustomed to this, he simply didn’t understand it; he just couldn’t understand it.