World Literature for College Preparatory and Honors
Asian Unit
China, Japan, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Cambodia
Poems:
“All” by Bei Dao;
“Also All” by Shu Ting
“Thoughts of Hanoi” by Nguyen Thi Vinh;
Haiku:
“Falling upon earth” by Matsuo Basho
“A gentle spring rain” by Kobayashi Issa
Tanka:
“When I went to visit..” by Ki no Toshiyori
“One cannot ask loneliness..” by Priest Jakuren;
Fiction:
Interpreters of Maladies -Jhumpa Lahiri;
“When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine”
“Like the Sun” by R.K. Narayan;
“The Cabuliwallah” by Rabindranath Tagore;
Nonfiction:
from The Analects by Confucius;
Honors texts
“All” by Bei Dao;
“Also All” by Shu Ting
from The Analects by Confucius;
“The Cabuliwallah” by Rabindranath Tagore;
“Rama’s Initiation” from The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan
Eastern Europe Unit
Russia, Norway, Czech Republic, Romania, Greece
Fiction:
“Before the Law” by Franz Kafka;
“A Problem” by Anton Chekhov;
Nonfiction:
“Keep Memory Alive” by Elie Wiesel;
Articles from the New York Times book review on The Gulag Archipelago;
From “Nobel Lecture” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn;
Poem:
“The Bridegroom” by Alexandre Pushkin;
“A Man” by Nina Cassian;
Drama:
Antigone by Sophocles;
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen;
Honors texts
An excerpt from Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
From “Nobel Lecture” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Eugene Onegin by Alexandre Pushkin
“Before the Law” by Franz Kafka
“I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land” by Anna Akhmatova
Latin/Central American Unit
Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Antigua, Mexico, and Chile
Novels/Fiction:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez
“The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela
Non-fiction:
“A Walk to the Jetty” by Jamaica Kincaid
“In Commemoration: One Million Volumes” by Rudolfo A. Anaya
“Work That Counts” by Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza
Poems:
“Fear” by Gabriela Mistral
“The Street” by Octavio Paz
Honors texts
“The Street” by Octavio Paz
“The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela
African/Middle-Eastern Unit
Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Iran, Irael, Senegal,
Fiction:
“Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe
“Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing”
Poem: “Pride” by Dahlia Ravikovitch
Honors texts
From Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
“Africa” by David Diop translated by Ulli Beier
“Old Song” Traditional
“Civil Peace” by Chinua Achebe