Kanon na koniec wieku (Canon at the end of the century)

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Rzeczpospolita (newspaper), 42 Books

Canon at the end of the century - a series of 25 (later expanded to 40) most important books of the 20th century published by a Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita (newspaper).

Who voted—and how many.
The ballot attracted 4 361 valid reader votes (paper coupons sent to the newsroom and e-mails; on-line voting did not yet exist at rp.pl). The 25 top-scoring titles formed the initial “Canon at the End of the Century.”

This list was originally published in 2002 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
34 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967 Russian Russian
76 The Plague Albert Camus 1947 French French
354 Hopscotch Julio Cortazar 1963 Argentinian Spanish
114 The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 Italian Italian
384 Ferdydurke Witold Gombrowicz 1937 Polish Polish
91 The Tin Drum Günter Grass 1959 German German
159 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek 1921 Czech Czech
33 Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961 American English
97 For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 American English
8208 89 Poems Zbigniew Herbert 1956 Polish Polish
7993 A World Apart Gustaw Herling 1951 Polish Polish
1 Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Irish English
21 The Trial Franz Kafka 1925 Czech German
25 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann 1924 German German
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
165 Winnie the Pooh A. A. Milne 1926 British English
1707 The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne 1928 British English
55 Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 British English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
112 Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1957 Russian Russian
2 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 French French
44 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 French French
727 The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Schulz 1934 Polish Polish
2956 Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass Bruno Schulz 1937 Polish Polish
206 The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Russian Russian
571 And Quiet Flows The Don Mikhail Sholokhov 1928 Russian Russian
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
9245 The Complete Dramatic Works Of Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett 1986 Irish English
137 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1900 British English
9 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929 American English
1212 A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis Sigmund Freud 1920 Austrian German
171 Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse 1927 German German
50 Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 British English
154 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey 1962 American English
99 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera 1984 Czech Czech
56 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 1958 Italian Italian
856 Conversation in the Cathedral Mario Vargas Llosa 1969 Peruvian Spanish
135 Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann 1947 German German
82 The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil 1930 Austrian German
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
1501 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer 1960 Polish Yiddish
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English