Berlin Stories
10 best books like Berlin Stories (Robert Walser): Berlin Alexanderplatz, Permanent Record, Under the Volcano, In the Heart of the Country, Transit, Jejuri, The Last Wolf / Herman, Written Lives, Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho, La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag
| Author | Alfred Döblin |
| ISBN | 3423002956 |
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
| Author | Edward Snowden |
| ISBN | 1250237238 |
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...
| Author | Malcolm Lowry |
| ISBN | 0060955228 |
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead—his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life...
| Author | J.M. Coetzee |
| ISBN | 0099465949 |
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace....
| Author | Anna Seghers |
| ISBN | 3746651530 |
“Transit” is the perfect title for this masterpiece of refugee fiction!
There are so many layers of meaning in that short word, all symbolically integrated in the straightforward, realistic story, mirroring Anna Seghers’ own odyssey during the Second World War.
The most...
| Author | Arun Kolatkar |
| ISBN | 1590171632 |
A sequence of stunningly simple but haunting poems, Jejuri is one of the great books of modern India. Jejuri is a site of pilgramage in author Arun Kolatkar's native state of Maharashtra, and Jejuri the poem is the record of a visit to the town -- a place that is as crassly commercial as it is holy, as modern...
| Author | László Krasznahorkai |
| ISBN | 0811226085 |
The Last Wolf features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. This miserable experience (being mistaken for another, dragged about a cold foreign place, appalled by a...
| Author | Javier Marías |
| ISBN | 0811216896 |
In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marías is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Laurence Sterne. His love for these authors is the touchstone of Written Lives. Collected...
| Author | Samuel Beckett |
| ISBN | 0802134262 |
Now compiled in one volume, these three novels, which are among the most beautiful and disquieting of Samuel Beckett's later prose works, work together with the powerful resonance of his famous Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. In Company, a voice comes to "one on his back in the...
La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag
| Author | Józef Czapski |
| ISBN | 8883251520 |
Settembre 1939. La Polonia è invasa. Come migliaia di polacchi, Joseph Czapski è fatto prigioniero dai russi e rinchiuso nel gulag di Griazowietz. Per vincere la prostrazione e l'angoscia della loro condizione, alcuni prigionieri organizzano incontri dove "ognuno di noi parlava di ciò che meglio...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
| Author | Raymond Queneau |
| ISBN | 0811207897 |
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From what point of view should I review the book? Evidently: from all possible points of view.
Snobbish
Needless to say, I am reading the original French edition. I can hardly believe that his delicate linguistic irony would survive translation into English. Quelle...
