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10 best books like Couples, Passersby (Botho Strauß): Simplicissimus, Lieutenant Gustl, Henry von Ofterdingen, The Glass Bees, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman, Indian Summer, The Stechlin, Thomas Of Reading, Anton Reiser, Green Henry

Simplicissimus
AuthorHans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
ISBN1903517427
This gaudy, wild, and raw tale of a war-torn 17th Century Europe depicts Simplicissimus as the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor. We follow him from an orphaned childhood to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and up to his final vocation...
Lieutenant Gustl
AuthorArthur Schnitzler
ISBN1557131767
Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the century and the impending collapse of the dream of the empire. Bored at the opera, egocentric young Lieutenant Gustl contemplates which women are flirting with him; the fact that there are too many Jews in the...
Henry von Ofterdingen
AuthorNovalis
ISBN0881335746
Strange and ingenious, this extraordinary fusion of novel, fairy tale, and poem, published posthumously in 1802, is the most representative work of early German Romanticism. It reflects, in part, events in the life of its author, who is best known for his "Hymns to the Night". Young Henry, a medieval...
The Glass Bees
AuthorErnst Jünger
ISBN0940322552
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of...
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
AuthorAndrzej Szczypiorski
ISBN0802135021
In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: she has blue eyes and blond hair. With these, and a set of false papers, she has slipped out of the ghetto, passing as the wife of a Polish officer, until...
Indian Summer
AuthorAdalbert Stifter
ISBN3906763730
This is one of Stifter's great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the baron's own reminiscences which...
The Stechlin
AuthorTheodor Fontane
ISBN1571130241
Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the period. The Stechlin is Fontane's last book and his political testament....
Thomas Of Reading
AuthorThomas Deloney
ISBN0854170928
Publisher: London: Printed by Eliz Allde for R. Bird, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com...
Anton Reiser
AuthorKarl Philipp Moritz
ISBN0140446095
Well received in its own day and all but forgotten in the last century, Anton Reiser (1785) has regained in our times the popular attention it richly merits. Subtitled a "psychological novel" by its author, who also called it a biography, the work is actually a highly authentic autobiography. The work...
Green Henry
AuthorGottfried Keller
ISBN1585674273
"Green Henry" is a vivid and absorbing representation of Gottfried Keller's ideals and philosophy, written in poetic language and a realistic style that documents the emergence of an artist and the development of a man. Partly autobiographical, the narrative recounts the experiences of the title...
The Hothouse
AuthorWolfgang Koeppen
ISBN0393049027
Brilliant. Four-and-a-half stars. How I subcutaneously shivered with each recognition of a Keetenheuve who was me and/or that from within me which constituted a part of Keetenheuve: solipsistic self-absorption resonating in the Key of I Minor, the ego as it's shown inside the other. No matter the...
Pavel's Letters
AuthorMonika Maron
Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it.

Born...
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
AuthorJoseph von Eichendorff
ISBN3150023548
Good-for-nothing is how the author referred to his male protagonist in the story. Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857) chose not to give a name to his character maybe because he would like us all to relate to his character. I easily was able to. At the beginning of the novel, Good-for-nothing removed all...
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
AuthorArnold Zweig
ISBN1585673358
During the late 20's many of those who experienced World War I wrote semi-autobiographical novels. One of them was Arnold Zweig (1887-1968), a German writer, anti-war and anti-fascist activist. He is known for his six-part cycle on World War I called The Great War of the White Men and the first part of...
Mutmassungen über Jakob
AuthorUwe Johnson
ISBN3518118188
Uwe Johnsons erster veröffentlichter Roman ist wegen seiner komplexen Erzählkonstruktion ein schwieriges Buch, das durch seine Thematik (die deutsche Teilung) den jungen Nachkriegsautor und Grenzgänger aus Ostdeutschland sogleich bekannt machte.
Entstehung: Johnsons Mutter arbeitete...
Cataract
AuthorMykhaylo Osadchy
ISBN0156155508



this book more than any deserves a new press run and some attention. the translation, to my ears, is already near-flawless.

it's ukrainian, but sits at the pinnacle of soviet literature, which is to say, soviet dissident literature. solzhenitsyn and shalamov and yermakov are...
Halbzeit
AuthorMartin Walser
ISBN3518365940
Der 35-jährige Anselm Kristlein, verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder, versucht sich seit dem Abbruch seines Studiums als Vertreter. Als ihm ein Bekannter das Abgebot unterbreitet, als Werbetexter zu arbeiten, steigt er innerhalb eines Jahres zum gefragten Experten auf. Diesen Karrieresprung...
Monica
AuthorSaunders Lewis
ISBN1854111957
Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis's first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors...
Pallieter
AuthorFelix Timmermans
ISBN3458331301
Der lebensfrohe und naturverbundene Pallieter, über dessen Alter und bisheriges Leben der Leser nichts Genaueres erfährt, lebt auf einem kleinen Hof im Tal des Flüsschens Nethe zusammen mit seiner frommen Schwester Charlot, die ihm den Haushalt führt, sowie dem Pferd Beiaard, dem Hund Lubas...
The Deadbeats
AuthorWard Ruyslinck
ISBN0720622255
This is the story of a married couple who have lived in semi-isolation in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of a town. Theirs has become almost an animal existence. Silvester, the husband, does not believe in love, beauty, God, or even in himself. His wife Margriet lives in constant fear of war. Whatever...
In the Heart of the Seas
AuthorS.Y. Agnon
ISBN0805206477
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 "for his profoundly characteristic narrative art with motifs from the life of the Jewish people."

The book is basically about a group of Jewish men (rabbis mostly) from Poland who decides to go to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem....
The Guiltless
AuthorHermann Broch
ISBN0810160781
Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters—an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name (Broch mostly refers...
Leviathan
AuthorJulien Green
ISBN2253099406
Dans un cauchemar, le pire est toujours sûr. Léviathan est un cauchemar d’amour. Dès l’entrée de ce roman noir, nous laissons toute espérance. L’enfer, ce n’est plus les autres, c’est chacun pour soi.
Un homme mal marié regarde et suit une jeune blanchisseuse, Angèle. Angèle,...
A Brief Life
AuthorJuan Carlos Onetti
ISBN1852423013
In A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti's protagonist, Brausen, is caring for his wife after a long illness. To compensate for the physical void which temporarily stalls their caresses, Brausen eavesdrops on the conversation of his neighbors, a husband and wife, imagining their gestures and their expressions....
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