David Damrosch, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BOOKS
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Literary historian David Damrosch joins Zibby to discuss his latest book, Around the World in 80 Books, which grew out of a blog he started during the pandemic. The two talk about the thought that went into selecting the eighty books from around the world, David's thoughts on reading translated works, and how he grew more comfortable sharing parts of his personal story, which made the book "a kind of a memoir of a life of reading." David shares some of these personal anecdotes with Zibby, including his connection to Madeleine L'Engle.
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| 0:36.9 | Hi. Hi. Hi. |
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| 0:41.0 | David Damrash is the author of Around the World in 80 books. |
| 0:44.9 | David is the earnest burnbound professor of comparative literature and chair of comparative literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Institute for World Literature. |
| 0:55.6 | He is the author or editor of 25 books, including What is World Literature, the buried book, comparing the |
| 1:01.6 | literatures, and the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature. He has lectured in 50 |
| 1:06.7 | countries around the world, and his online Harvard course, Masterpieces of World Literature, |
| 1:11.1 | has been taken by nearly 100,000 people. Wow. Welcome, David. Thank you so much for coming on |
| 1:16.5 | Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss around the world in 80 books. Thank you so much for |
| 1:21.6 | having me. It's my pleasure. First of all, I love this sort of genius inspiration for how you picked these books and the whole Jules Verne structure of it, how it started in COVID, how you started it online, and how you brought it to be this book in book form as well. |
| 1:39.2 | So I was hoping you could just quickly touch on that. |
| 1:41.5 | And then I would love to maybe delve into a couple of the places that |
| 1:44.6 | you visited that I found particularly interesting. Absolutely. Okay. Yes, so I'd had this idea a few |
| 1:50.0 | years ago to do a book for a general audience about world literature, which I've written about a lot |
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