The Global Novel: a literature podcast

The Global Novel is a podcast that surveys the narratology of world literature and history of transl

Episodes

Total: 49

Can murder ever be justified for the greater good? Today, we will walk through the twisted streets o

In Search of Lost Time (1913) by Marcel Proust remains one of the most profound and monumental novel

W.H. Auden is the modernist poet who coined the term “the age of anxiety” and is noted for his styli

Great Expectations (1861)

2024/7/15

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (1861) stands as a cornerstone of English literature, encap

Known for his masterful blend of realism and romanticism, Stendhal is one of the greatest novelists

Despite being rooted in 19th-century France, Honoré de Balzac's exploration of universal themes

Today, we're unfurling the scrolls of one of the most provocative, scandalous, and riveting nov

Madame Bovary (1857)

2024/3/15

Madame Bovary scandalized and fascinated nineteenth-century France upon its release, and is a ground

Gulliver's Travels (1726)

2024/2/15

Gulliver’s Travels remains one of the finest satires in the English language, delighting in the mock

My Struggle (2009)

2023/12/31

A Norwegian author and well-known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled My Struggle and

Zuleika Dobson (1911)

2023/12/15

Zuleika Dobson, or an Oxford love story, is the only novel by English essayist Max Beerbohm, a satir

New Grub Street (1891)

2023/11/30

New Grub Street is a novel by George Gissing published in 1891, which is set in the literary and jou

The Aesthetic Cold War

2023/11/16

How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In the boo

Taking Sigmund Freud's theories as a point of departure, Jean-Michel Rabaté's 2014 book Th

The famous English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare had during his lifetime produced

Frankenstein (1818)

2023/9/15

Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. It

The Mahābhārata

2023/8/31

In a most unsettling dice gambling game that is to determine the fate of its two players, a man lose

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didacti

Emily Apter’s Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability is a pivotal monograph

Water Margin (水浒传) is one of the earliest Chinese