The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 2
10 best books like The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 2 (Robert Musil): Berlin Alexanderplatz, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain, The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings, The Last Days of Mankind, The Sleepwalkers, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, The Complete Works of François Rabelais, La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana, Wolf Solent, The Road into the Open
| 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 | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0394711831 |
If the cares of this world have grown far too painful and you're thinking of becoming a junkie or born-again Christian, I'd suggest that you take a less drastic step, and consider trying out Proust first, just to see how it grabs you. This is what's known in my business as a "harm reduction" approach: like...
| Author | Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
| ISBN | 1590171209 |
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales...
| Author | Karl Kraus |
| ISBN | 0804463662 |
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...
| Author | Hermann Broch |
| ISBN | 0679764062 |
With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 0140446311 |
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.....
| Author | François Rabelais |
| ISBN | 0520064011 |
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own...
La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana
| Author | Juan Luis Arsuaga |
| ISBN | 8478809090 |
¿Es el hombre «la especie elegida», la consecuencia necesaria de la larga marcha de la evolución? ¿Es, por el contrario, un accidente, el resultado de una de tantas opciones posibles en la historia de la vida? ¿Qué fue antes, un ser bípedo o un ser inteligente? ¿Desde cuándo hablan los seres...
| Author | John Cowper Powys |
| ISBN | 0375703071 |
When it was first published in 1929, John Cowper Powys's rapturous novel of eros and ideas was compared with works by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence. Since then it has won the admiration of writers from Henry Miller to Iris Murdoch. Wolf Solent remains wholly unrivaled in its deft and risky...
| Author | Arthur Schnitzler |
| ISBN | 0520077741 |
A finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and anti-semitism, The Road into the Open (Der Weg ins Freie, 1908) is a remarkable novel by a major Austrian writer of the early twentieth century. Set in fin-de-siècle Austria—the cafés,...
| Author | Robert Walser |
| ISBN | 0811215903 |
Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion,...
| Author | Elizabeth Bowen |
| ISBN | 1400034795 |
In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings the women reluctantly together again. Dinah has grown from a chubby,...
| Author | Thomas Bernhard |
| ISBN | 0099442531 |
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen he contracted pneumonia. Placed in...
| 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...
| Author | Gregor von Rezzori |
| ISBN | 1590173414 |
Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters,...
An early novel from the great rediscovered Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, The Rebels is a haunting story of a group of alienated boys on the cusp of adult life—and possibly death—during World War I.
It is the summer of 1918, and four boys approaching graduation are living in a ghost town...
Tras el derrumbe de la utopía neoliberal, el gran consenso ideológico de nuestro tiempo es la capacidad de las tecnologías de la comunicación para inducir dinámicas sociales positivas. La economía del conocimiento se considera unánimemente como la solución al deterioro especulativo...
| Author | Peter Handke |
| ISBN | 0020515308 |
Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald. A novel of...
| Author | Alain Robbe-Grillet |
210719: this is the french original https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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review on both. 201117. 6th time?:
i have had several copies of this perennial favorite. most recently i tried a ‘comfort read’ list and ended up discounting all those...
