Alain Finkielkraut’s ideal library
Alain Finkielkraut is a well-known French essayist. This list appeared in Transfuge, September 2009.
His list
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Записки из подполья (Notes from the Underground)
Vasily Grossman: Записки из подполья (Everything Flows)
Karen Blixen: Babettes gæstebud (Babette’s Feast)
Philip Roth: The Human Stain
Milan Kundera: Žert (The Joke)
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
Henry James: Washington Square
Albert Camus: Le premier homme (The First Man)
Sebastian Haffner: Geschichte eines Deutschen. Die Erinnerungen 1914-1933 [History of a German. Memoirs 1914-1933]