The Fourth Age (Chaotic) of Harold Blooms Canon (Part 10)

Explore Harold Bloom's Chaotic Fourth Age of the literary canon with this essential list of books. Discover key works that define this transformative period in Bloom's celebrated critique.

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The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Originally published: Dana Point, Calif.: Ardis, 1995.
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Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

by Isaac Babel

To read Babel is to experience the wild and often terrifying swings of Russian history."--BOOK JACKET.
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Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

An epic novel of Russia before and during the Revolution.
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Envy

 

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The foundation pit Cover
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The foundation pit

 

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan …
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Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant …
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals …
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August 1914

by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

Expanded by Solzhenitsyn to almost twice the length of the original edition, this novel reconstructs the assassination of tsarist Prime Minister Pyotr Stolupin and the …
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Seven Gothic Tales

by Isak Dinesen

Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by "one of the finest and most singular artists of our time" (The Atlantic), is …
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Hunger

by Knut Hamsun

A modern classic about a penniless, unemployed young writer, this powerful, autobiographical novel paints an unforgettable portrait of a man driven to the edge of …
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Kristin Lavransdatter

by Sigrid Undset

“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate The turbulent historical masterpiece of Norway’s literary master A Penguin Classic In her great historical epic …
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The Bridge on the Drina

 

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Homage to the lame wolf

 

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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

by Danilo Kiš

"Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century . . . Danilo Kis preserves the honor …
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly …
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The Street of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schulz

The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and …
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