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The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness

10 best books like The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness (Walter Benjamin): Grand Hotel, Subtly Worded, Selected Literary Essays, Amateurs, Jahrestage, Die Nacht, die Lichter: Stories, French Decadent Tales, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922, A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories, You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor

Grand Hotel
AuthorVicki Baum
Cruel Berlin. Cruel loneliness.

Weimar Germany, March 1929, shortly before the economic crisis. Flipping in through the revolving doors, Austrian author Vicki Baum (1888 1960) draws the reader into the lobby of the ‘Grand Hotel’ – the archetype of which is so sumptuously conveyed...
Subtly Worded
AuthorTeffi
A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov

Teffi's genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely...
Selected Literary Essays
AuthorC.S. Lewis
ISBN0521296803
This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis' most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The literary impact of the authorised version' to 'Psycho-analysis and literary...
Amateurs
AuthorDonald Barthelme
ISBN0374103798
322. Amateurs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post,...
Jahrestage
AuthorUwe Johnson
ISBN3518397206
Die Johnson-Forschung befindet sich seit jeher in einem Dilemma: Kaum ein Schriftsteller muss so hart darum kämpfen, dass seine fiktionale Prosa nicht gleichsam durch die ihr immanente Faktizität erdrückt wird. Eifrige Indiziensucher spüren Orte und Namen in Mecklenburg auf, wandeln auf...
Die Nacht, die Lichter: Stories
AuthorClemens Meyer
ISBN3100486013
Er setzt alles auf eine Karte, der Hundebesitzer, der auf der Rennbahn sein Geld verwettet, um eine teure OP zahlen zu können. Sie will es allen zeigen, die junge Frau, und sich vom Flüchtlingsschiff in die erste Liga hochboxen. Clemens Meyers Geschichten spielen in der stillen Wohnung, in der Lagerhalle...
French Decadent Tales
AuthorStephen Romer
ISBN0199569274
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral...
Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922
AuthorMarina Tsvetaeva
ISBN0300069227
Take a very talented and spirited poet, and place her in Moscow between the years 1917 and 1922. What you have is Marina Tsvetaeva is Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922. Although the people of Moscow during this period suffered from near famine (Marina's youngest daughter was placed in a state...
A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories
AuthorRobert Walser
ISBN1590176928
This new collection of more than seventy stories by the iconic modern writer Robert Walser, includes stories that have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, n+1 online, Vice, and elsewhere. Also included is the complete “Fritz Kocher’s Essays,” the “collected works,” so to speak, of a boy...
You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor
AuthorElizabeth Taylor
ISBN1590177274
AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL

Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwar period, prized and praised by Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel, among others. Inheriting Ivy Compton-Burnett’s uncanny sensitivity to the...
Mario and the Magician and Other Stories
AuthorThomas Mann
ISBN0749386622
In this extraordinary collection of short stories, Thomas Mann uses settings as diverse as Germany, Italy, the Holy Land and the Far East to explore a theme which always preoccupied him: the two faces of things. Thus, in A Man and His Dog and Disorder and Early Sorrow, small domestic tempests become symbolic...
The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
AuthorKenzaburō Ōe
ISBN0802151841
Edited by one of Japan’s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan’s best and most representative writers chronicle and re-create...
The Farm in the Green Mountains
AuthorAlice Herdan-Zuckmayer
ISBN0933050461
The Farm in the Green Mountains is the story of a family finding home halfway across the world from their homeland.
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar, Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma...
The Treasure Chest
AuthorJohann Peter Hebel
ISBN0140446397
A wonderful collection of moral tales, anecdotes, jokes, reports of murders, disasters and mysteries, all originally written for inclusion in a popular religious almanac.

First issued in collected form in 1811, Hebel's stories cover a broad spectrum of human experience, with characters...
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...
My First Wife
AuthorJakob Wassermann
ISBN0141391804
My First Wife is Jakob Wassermann's intense, powerful account of a marriage - and its ruinous collapse - translated by the award-winning translator of Alone in Berlin, Michael Hofmann.

It is the story of Alexander Herzog, a young writer, who goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love...
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...
All the King's Horses (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
AuthorMichèle Bernstein
ISBN1584350652
"What are you working on, exactly? I have no idea."
"Reification," he answered.
"It's a serious job," I added.
"Yes, it is," he said.
"I see," Carole observed with admiration. "Serious work, at a huge desk cluttered with thick books and papers."
"No," said Gilles. "I walk. Mainly...
Die Kieferninseln
AuthorMarion Poschmann
ISBN3518427601
Gilbert Silvester, Privatdozent und Bartforscher im Rahmen eines universitären Drittmittelprojekts, steht unter Schock. Letzte Nacht hat er geträumt, dass seine Frau ihn betrügt. In einer absurden Kurzschlusshandlung verlässt er sie, steigt ins erstbeste Flugzeug und reist nach Japan,...
Sand
AuthorWolfgang Herrndorf
ISBN3871347345
"Er aß und trank, bürstete seine Kleider ab, leerte den Sand aus seinen Taschen und überprüfte noch einmal die Innentasche des Blazers. Er wusch sich unter dem Tisch die Hände mit ein wenig Trinkwasser, goß den Rest über seine geplagten Füße und schaute die Straße entlang. Sandfarbene Kinder...
The Lute and the Scars
AuthorDanilo Kiš
ISBN1564787354
Written between 1980 and 1986, the six stories that constitute The Lute and the Scars (as well as an untitled piece by the author, included here as “A and B”) were transcribed from the manuscripts left by Danilo Kiš following his death in 1989. Like the title story, many of these texts are autobiographical....
La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag
AuthorJózef Czapski
ISBN8883251520
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...
Tales of Love & Loss
AuthorKnut Hamsun
Twenty stories ranging over every imaginable human emotion and situation, Tales of Love and Loss is a treat for all lovers of great writing. Knut Hamsun published only three collections of short stories during his lifetime and abandoned the form entirely after 1906. Most of these stories are translated...
No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State
AuthorFritz Stern
ISBN1590176812
During the twelve years of Hitler’s Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposing his tyranny and terror, and fewer still did so to protect the sanctity of law and faith. In No Ordinary Men, Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern focus on two remarkable, courageous men who did—the pastor...
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