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10 best books like Jahrestage (Uwe Johnson): Simplicissimus, Die Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre, Transit, The Last Days of Mankind, Indian Summer, The Safety Net, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, The Stechlin, 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...
Die Strudlhofstiege oder Melzer und die Tiefe der Jahre
AuthorHeimito von Doderer
ISBN3423012544
Wien in den Jahren 1910/11 und 1923-25. Im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens steht der Amtsrat und Major a.D. Melzer, dessen Leben irgendwie immer an ihm vorbeiläuft, bis er endlich doch zu sich selbst findet. Ein Großstadtroman mit der Aura des Lebens, »so, wie es ist«.

»Man müsste Heimito...
Transit
AuthorAnna Seghers
ISBN3746651530
“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...
The Last Days of Mankind
AuthorKarl Kraus
ISBN0804463662
Kraus' masterpiece is generally considered to be the massive satirical play about the First World War, which combines dialogue from contemporary documents with apocalyptic fantasy and commentary from two characters called "the Grumbler" and "the Optimist". Kraus began to write the play in 1915...
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 Safety Net
AuthorHeinrich Böll
ISBN0349103518
Although Fritz Tolm and his wife Käthe play a representative role in established society, their sympathies are often on the side of their children and their friends. The Tolm family, for example, abandons the most difficult problem to the enormously bloated police apparatus, depending on whether...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
AuthorE.T.A. Hoffmann
ISBN0140446311
It was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) who first explored many of the themes and techniques which were later used by writers from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Poe to Kafka, Baudelaire to Marquez. His career reached a glorious climax in The Tomcat Murr, perhaps the strangest novel of the nineteenth century.....
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....
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...
Couples, Passersby
AuthorBotho Strauß
ISBN0810112426
In Couples, Passersby, the controversial German writer Botho Strauss deftly combines the fantastic and the mundane to depict a society in which people pair off only to find greater isolation and alienation. In Strauss's world, love turns not to hate but to indifference, and lovers fade into strangers,...
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...
The German Lesson
AuthorSiegfried Lenz
ISBN0811209822
Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is one day assigned to write a routine German lesson on the "The Joys of Duty." Overfamiliar with these “joys,” Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, constable of the northernmost police station...
Zettels Traum
AuthorArno Schmidt
ISBN3596505607
“I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was,” says Bottom. “I have had a dream, and I wrote a Big Book about it,” Arno Schmidt might have said. Schmidt’s rare vision is a journey into many literary worlds. First and foremost it is about Edgar Allan Poe, or perhaps it is language...
Jew Süss
AuthorLion Feuchtwanger
ISBN0881840734
This book was not what I expected. I initially picked it up because its the book behind the most anti-semetic film ever made. However, the book itself is not anti-semetic. Sure, the main character is a horrible Jewish guy who bleeds the peasants dry, destroys competitors, breaks virgin hearts, manipulates,...
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...
The Island of Second Sight
AuthorAlbert Vigoleis Thelen
ISBN1903385067
Unavailable to English readers for more than 50 years, The Island of Second Sight is a masterpiece of world literature. Set in the years leading up to World War II, it is the fictionalized account of the time spent in Mallorca by the author and his wife, who experience the most unpredictable and surreal...
Patterns of Childhood
AuthorChrista Wolf
ISBN0374518440
I cried while reading this novel. Tears just kept flowing silently, and there was nothing I could do about it.

If you want to know what totalitarian states do to children, this novel will tell you, - without sentimentality, without blame or anger, without self-pity.

For all those emotions...
Kruso
AuthorLutz Seiler
ISBN3518424475
Inselabenteuer und Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Freundschaft: Kruso, der erste, lang erwartete Roman von Lutz Seiler, schlägt einen Bogen vom Sommer 89 bis in die Gegenwart. Die einzigartige Recherche, die diesem Buch zugrunde liegt, folgt den Spuren jener Menschen, die bei ihrer Flucht...
Der Turm
AuthorUwe Tellkamp
ISBN3518420208
Hausmusik, Lektüre, intellektueller Austausch: Das Dresdner Villenviertel, vom real existierenden Sozialismus längst mit Verfallsgrau überzogen, schottet sich ab. Resigniert, aber humorvoll kommentiert man den Niedergang eines Gesellschaftssystems, in dem Bildungsbürger eigentlich...
Schlump: The Story of an Unknown Soldier
AuthorHans Herbert Grimm
Schlump is seventeen, a romantic, a chancer and a dreamer. It's 1915 so naturally he volunteers for war. In France he is assigned an administrative position in a small town and has a marvellous time. But when he gets to the trenches, where death and mindless destruction are the everyday, he starts to understand...
Montauk
AuthorMax Frisch
"Montauk" is Max Frisch' final novel in which the mature writer - he was 64 at the time - gives an account of two weekend trips with a relatively young woman he has only just met. This is not a story of romance. These are two people who happen to like and trust each other enough to spend a few days together, without...
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