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ventures in Wonderland)</li><li>Cervantes (Don Quijote)</li><li>E.E. Cummings</li><li>Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders)</li><li>Descartes</li><li>Charles Dickens (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist)</li><li>Emily Dickinson</li><li>Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment*, Notes from Underground)</li><li>Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet)</li><li>Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo)</li><li>T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)</li><li>George Eliot (Middlemarch)</li><li>William Faulkner (Light in August)</li><li>Henry Fielding</li><li>F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby)</li><li>Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)</li><li>Robert Frost</li><li>The Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm</li><li>Jean Genet (The Thief’s Journal)</li><li>André Gide (The Counterfeiters)</li><li>Nikolai Gogol</li><li>Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)</li><li>Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time)</li><li>Homer (Odyssey, Iliad)</li><li>David Hume</li><li>Henry James (Washington Square)</li><li>James Joyce (Dubliners)</li><li>Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis)</li><li>Immanuel Kant</li><li>Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt)</li><li>George MacDonald</li><li>Herman Melville</li><li>John Milton (Paradise Lost)</li><li>

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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne</li><li>Edith Nesbit</li><li>George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984)</li><li>Ovid</li><li>John Dos Passos (Manhattan Transfer)</li><li>Alan Paton</li><li>Edgar Allan Poe</li><li>J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)</li><li>Nathalie Sarraute</li><li>Shakespeare</li><li>Stendhal (The Charterhouse of Parma)</li><li>Laurence Sterne</li><li>Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)</li><li>William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)</li><li>Henry David Thoreau (Walden, Civil Disobedience)</li><li>Thousand and One Nights</li><li>Leo Tolstoy (The Kreutzer Sonata, Family Happiness, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection)</li><li>Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)</li><li>Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)</li><li>Vergil</li><li>Voltaire (Candide)</li><li>Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth)</li><li>E.B. White (Wilbur and Charlotte)</li><li>Walt Whitman</li><li>William Carlos Williams (Pictures from Brueghel)</li></ul>But with no guarantee for completeness…Do you feel inspired, interested, incited, invigorated? Please consider supporting by simply buying me a coffee. Thanks for making a difference.<figure id="ce42"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*tXALX4QSzMLIAZ7vZhY2Kw.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure></article></body>

Inspired by Paul Auster’s 4321

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Recently I’ve read the novel 4321 by Paul Auster (you can read the review here). It was quite an inspiring journey and as he mentioned so many books and novels, essays, and poems along the way, I started creating a list — the authors and texts that must have influenced Auster the most throughout his life. Some of them he names specifically and even dedicates some paragraphs to them — John Cage’s Silence and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. You will find heavy but meaningful reading, that needs attention and commitment. But if you are looking for inspiration, not diversion, congratulations, you’ve arrived in heaven.

Enjoy!

Dante Alighieri (Inferno)

Aristoteles

Aurelius Augustinus (Confessions)

Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

Honoré de Balzac

Samuel Beckett (Molloy)

André Breton (Nadja)

Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)

John Cage (Silence*)

Albert Camus

Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

Cervantes (Don Quijote)

E.E. Cummings

Daniel Defoe (Moll Flanders)

Descartes

Charles Dickens (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist)

Emily Dickinson

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment*, Notes from Underground)

Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet)

Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo)

T.S. Eliot (The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock)

George Eliot (Middlemarch)

William Faulkner (Light in August)

Henry Fielding

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby)

Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)

Robert Frost

The Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm

Jean Genet (The Thief’s Journal)

André Gide (The Counterfeiters)

Nikolai Gogol

Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time)

Homer (Odyssey, Iliad)

David Hume

Henry James (Washington Square)

James Joyce (Dubliners)

Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis)

Immanuel Kant

Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt)

George MacDonald

Herman Melville

John Milton (Paradise Lost)

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Edith Nesbit

George Orwell (Animal Farm, 1984)

Ovid

John Dos Passos (Manhattan Transfer)

Alan Paton

Edgar Allan Poe

J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

Nathalie Sarraute

Shakespeare

Stendhal (The Charterhouse of Parma)

Laurence Sterne

Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

William Makepeace Thackeray (Vanity Fair)

Henry David Thoreau (Walden, Civil Disobedience)

Thousand and One Nights

Leo Tolstoy (The Kreutzer Sonata, Family Happiness, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection)

Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)

Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

Vergil

Voltaire (Candide)

Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth)

E.B. White (Wilbur and Charlotte)

Walt Whitman

William Carlos Williams (Pictures from Brueghel)

But with no guarantee for completeness…

Do you feel inspired, interested, incited, invigorated? Please consider supporting by simply buying me a coffee. Thanks for making a difference.

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Books That Will Change You

Inspired by Paul Auster’s 4321