What are the greatest foreign writers and what are their books?

miguel cervantes and his, "don quixote" (sometimes, "quijote").

jorge luis borges - all works (except his poetry - not having read it, i can't recommend it)

the author of, "if on a winter's night a traveller,,," (yes that's the name of the book, and i suggest you NOT start with that one), whose name escapes me, just now. try, "invisible cities". ah! italo calvino is the author (i'm old! my memory's bad!)

umberto eco - all works

alexandre dumas, pere - all works, pretty much (somewhat lighter than the other stuff, above)

that's a start (and a damned good one).

Homer , Chekov, James Joyce, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Marx,Seneca, Jean Genet, Albert Camus, Cervantes

Chuang T,zu. Confucius,

Paolo Coelho- the Alchemist, Franz Kafka-theMetamorphosis, Marcel Pagnol-Jean De Florette and Manon de Sources, Miguel De Cervantes-Don Quijote

just to name a few

Michel Tournier, Umberto Eco (The name of the rose), Italo Calvino, Yukio Mishima, Herta Muller.

Contemporary foreign (and good writers) - you should read any of their books - Milan Kundera, Ismail Kadare, Milorad Pavic, Amelie Nothomb, Michel Houllebeck. Their books are really great!

And, by the way, Coehlo it's soap

robbe grillet. I think the book is The Eraser

Also - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - forgot who wrote it

Voltaire...Candide

Beaudelaire...Poetry

Antoine Saint d'Exuprey...The Little Prince

victor hugo-les miserables

franz kafka-the trial (or anything else by him)

gabrielle garcia marquez-love in the time of cholera

paulo coehlo. he wrote the alchemist.

annything by stevin king. ellvis is good to.