Why Read? 100 people will tell you the answerReading books allows us to broaden our horizons, increase our knowledge, and improve our quality. So, why do we read books?
Today, I recommend 10 books by foreign authors who think they are better, and each of their works is worth reading repeatedly.
One: Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) is a Colombian writer, journalist and social activist, a representative of Latin American magical realist literature, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His representative works include One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
Two: William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965) was a British writer and playwright. His representative works include the drama "Circle", the long story "The Shackles of Life", "The Moon and Sixpence", and the short story "The Tremor of the Leaf", "Ah Jin" and so on.
Three: Harper Lee
Harperlee (April 28, 1926 - February 20, 2016), full name Neil Harperlee, was born in Monroville, Alabama, USA, and was an American female writer. She was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Hussein Obama for her "outstanding contributions to the excellence, development, support, and usability of the arts."
Four: Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie (November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955), a famous American master of human relations, the father of modern American education, the founder of modern Western interpersonal education, is known as the greatest spiritual teacher and success master of the 20th century. His 1936 book, The Weakness of Human Nature, has been regarded by the Western world for 70 years as one of the bibles of social skills. In 1912, he founded the Carnegie School to teach people interpersonal communication and stress management skills.
Five: Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, activist, philosopher, and Indian nationalist. His representative works include Gitanjali, The Birds, The Sands in the Eyes, The Four Humans, The Family and the World, The Gardener, The Crescent Moon, The Last Psalm, Gora, The Crisis of Civilization, Practice: The Enlightenment of Life, etc. In 1913, he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for Gitanjali.
Six: Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German writer and poet. Born in Germany, he moved to Switzerland in 1919 and became a Swiss citizen in 1923 at the age of 46. Hesse was awarded many literary honors during his lifetime, the most important of which are the Fontaine Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the Goethe Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. He died at his home in Switzerland in 1962 at the age of 85. Hobbies of ** and painting, is a wandering, lonely, reclusive poet. Most of the works are based on the lives of ordinary citizens, expressing nostalgia for the past era, and also reflecting some of the despair of people in the same period.
Seven: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a philosopher, philologist, cultural critic, poet, composer and thinker. His main works include "The Will to Power", "The Birth of Tragedy", "An Untimely Investigation", "Thus Said Zarathustra", "Philosophy in the Age of Greek Tragedy", "On the Genealogy of Morality", etc.
Eight: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), also translated as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry[6], was a French writer. He was one of the first generation of pilots in France. Born in Lyon, France. In 1940, he went into exile in the United States and lived in New York, where he immersed himself in literary creation. In 1943, he participated in the Allied war of resistance in North Africa. In 1944, he disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea on his eighth reconnaissance mission. His works mainly describe the life of pilots, and his representative works include ** "Night Flight", the prose collection "The Land of Man", "Air Force Pilot", and the fairy tale "The Little Prince".
Nine: Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (English name: Victor Hugo, February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885), a representative writer of positive romantic literature in France in the early 19th century, a representative of humanism, and an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature, is known as "the Shakespeare of France". In his lifetime, he wrote many poems, screenplays, various essays, literary criticism and political chapters, and has a wide influence in France and the world.
Ten: Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami, born on January 12, 1949 in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Japan, is a contemporary Japanese writer.
In 1975, he graduated from Waseda University's First Faculty of Letters, majoring in drama. In 1979, he won the 23rd Group Portrait Newcomer Literature Award for his work "Listen to the Wind". In 1987, he published the full-length novel "Norwegian Wood", which had a circulation of more than 10 million copies by 2009, which broke the silence of the Japanese literary scene and gave rise to the so-called "Haruki Murakami phenomenon".
The above is the representative works of 10 famous foreign writers, whether it is ancient or modern, Chinese and foreign works, every time I read it, I will never forget to return.
First of all, reading books allows us to learn about the world. Through reading, we can learn about the customs, historical stories, cultural traditions and so on around the world. In this way, we can better understand the world and communicate better with others.
Secondly, reading books can improve our thinking skills. Reading can exercise our logical thinking, the ability to analyze problems, and thus improve our judgment and decision-making ability.
So, what other reason do you have not to read? Let's share your favorite books!
ps: The above character numbers are ranked in no particular order, and the character profiles are excerpted from the encyclopedia.