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10 best books like Lieutenant Gustl (Arthur Schnitzler): Simplicissimus, Der arme Spielmann, Henry von Ofterdingen, The Glass Bees, Indian Summer, The Stechlin, Anton Reiser, Green Henry, Couples, Passersby, Pavel's Letters

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...
Der arme Spielmann
AuthorFranz Grillparzer
ISBN1406819433
Eine schlichte, stille Geschichte. Grillparzer thematisiert in seiner Rahmennovelle den tragischen Kontrast zwischen universellem Kunstanspruch und tatsächlichem künstlerischem Vermögen. Der prinzipientreue Spielmann Jakob ist von seiner Berufung zum Geiger überzeugt, obwohl sein...
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...
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....
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,...
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.

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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...
Amras
AuthorThomas Bernhard
ISBN3518380060
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»Das Wesen der Krankheit ist so dunkel als das Wesen des Lebens.« Dieses Zitat von Novalis steht als Motto über der 1964 geschriebenen Erzählung Thomas Bernhards. Beschrieben wird die letzte Phase im Auflösungsprozeß einer Familie, Ursache und Wirkung...
Minna von Barnhelm
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN3150000106
Dieses Büchlein hat mich bestens unterhalten und vergnügt. Vor allem die Nebenfiguren wie Franziska, Werner, Just und sogar der Wirt amüsierten mich und sind in meinen Augen die reizvollsten Charaktere in diesem Lustspiel. Sie verfügen über eine ungeheure Portion Witz und Scharfsinn, die...
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...
A House in the Uplands
AuthorErskine Caldwell
A ridiculously overheated melodrama set on a decaying southern plantation, featuring a prideful, spoiled young "aristocrat", his mother who encourages him in those traits, his neglected, weepy wife, their downtrodden servants and field hands, a "modern" cousin, an earthy lower-class tenant......
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...
Fool's Gold (Modern Greek Writers)
AuthorMaro Douka
Myrsini Panayotou, an Athenian girl about to start university, learns of the coup d'etat that brought to power the infamous dictatorship of the "Colonels" in her country in the early hours of Friday, 21st April 1967. The child of a well-to-do family, Myrsini enthusiastically joins the underground...
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...
Retreat Without Song
AuthorShahan Shahnour
ISBN0903039109
aras yayıncılık'ın geçen sene yayımladığı şaheserlerden biri. diasporada yaşayan bir ermeni'nin sessiz çığlıkları, unutmaya çalıştığı geçmişi, yaşadığı tutkulu aşk hikâyesi...
1915'te fransa'ya göç eden bir ermeni'nin hayatta kalma savaşı, zanaatiyle...
Death in Rome
AuthorWolfgang Koeppen
ISBN1862075891
In Rome, four members of a German family are reunited by chance. A young composer, Siegfried; his estranged father, Freidrich, who held office under the Nazis and is once more making his way in public life, this time as a democratically elected buromaster; Siegfried's uncle, Judejahn, a unrepentant...
The Last World
AuthorChristoph Ransmayr
ISBN0802134580
Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece and as one of the most important novels of our time. The Last World is the story of a young man's quest for the exiled poet Ovid and the masterwork he has consigned to the flames. Ransmayr has created a visionary landscape, a transformed place where the ancient world meets...
The Leviathan
AuthorJoseph Roth
ISBN0811219259
In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the most respected coral merchant of the region. Nissen has never been outside of his town, deep in the Russian interior, and fantasizes that a Leviathan watches over the coral reefs. When the sailor nephew of one of Progrody’s residents...
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