/lit/ - Literature

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I assume you want some underrated gems, because otherwise I'd obviously recommend everything by the obvious heavy-hitters Goethe and Mann (especially Goethe's memoirs Dichtung und Wahrheit which I would place above his Italian Journey because of how situated in history it is). Georg Büchner is an author well-known in Germany but is quite due for a new appraisal outside of it because he accomplished a remarkable amount in his short life and was an innovator in a truly German theater that left most contemporary plays coming out in other places like France in the dust.

Pic related though is one of the best things I think published by NYRB due to the almost total obscurity of Hungarian literature other than Bela Tarr in the Anglosphere. For its Berlin counterpart there's also obviously Berlin Alexanderplatz. A Journey Round My Skull is another title from an author well known in Hungary but obscure here that's a darkly humorous memoir about the effects on the mind of a writer from a brain tumor. Also would highly recc everything published by NYRB by the pseudo-aristocrat Gregor von Rezzori, who being born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was born in what is now a Ukrainian city, lived in Romania, was of Italian origin, and wrote in German. Other "fun" titles I liked was the wonderful Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Serge's memoirs and novel The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Shalamov's Kolyma books, and what is a totally unprecedented book called "The Glory of the Empire" by Jean D'Ormesson which has only about 100 ratings on Goodreads and is the closest I think we will ever get to an entire Borges novel