This article first appeared in The Creators Project.
A map-certainly contrived with noble intentions-describes the Earth covered by the cover of the most popular literary works in each region recently circulated. The contributor of this map is a Reddit user named Backforward24 account. He carefully scrutinized his famous literary works and put them on his homepage-on this map we can see the land of the United States being covered by the To Kill A Mockingbird cover, while the Mexicans love Pedro Páramo and the cover of The Stranger by Albert Camus closing the map Algeria region.
The academics and Reddit users who are fond of literature seem to be satisfied with this project and have responded directly to Backforward24. Like every recommendation, map, and other list form, the first thing to do before working on this map is to determine the criteria for selecting the work. Of course this process is very complicated and inconvenient, because the mapmaker must be keen to choose the most important work of one country.
If it gets wrong, the risk is great: the cultivators of a map can harm the literary tradition of a region.
Below, we sort three titles per region to show how troublesome this map is. You can also see the full list here and do not hesitate to add your own work that you think is passed by Backforward24. We are not responsible if yes after reading this article, you can contact all the bookkeepers online to buy the works mentioned in this map. Remember the fate of Bung and Nona's account. Old date is in sight.
If you want to see a map made by Backforward24 in big size, click here yes. Oh yes, perhaps you are curious which literature is the most popular in Indonesia, the answer is the monumental novel of Earth Man by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. So sorry other writers, your work has not been very significant in the eyes of the world's literary addicts-or at least in the Backforward24 assessment.
Southeast Asia: Human Earth by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia), Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal (Philippines), The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia), The Sorrows of War by Bảo Ninh (Vietnam), First They Killed My Family by Loung Ung (Cambodia), The Four Reigns by Kukrit Pramoj (Thailand), In the Other Side of the Eye by Bryan Thao Worra (Laos), Smile as they Bow by Nu Nu Yi (Myanmar), Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren (Brunei), The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo (East Timor)
North America and Central: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (Mexico), To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (USA), Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canada).
South America: Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende (Chile), Lituma in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru).
Western Europe: Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain), The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (France), The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri (Italy).
Eastern Europe: War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy (Russia), Pan Tadeusz, by Adam Mickiewicz (Poland), Eclipse of the Crescent Moon, by Géza Gárdonyi (Hungary).
Africa: The Stranger by Albert Camus (Algeria), The Antipeople, by Sony Labou Tansi (Congo), Misfortune by JM Coetzee (South Africa).
Asia: My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Dream in Red Pavilion, by Cao Xueqin (China), Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (Japan).
Oceania: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (Australia), The Bone People by Keri Hulme (New Zealand), Death of a Muruk by Bernard Narokobi (Papua New Guinea).
Early versions of this article first appeared in Creators Mexico.