/lit/ - Literature

>>12995057
tell us more about Hauptmann, and first, why is this guy kinda forgotten outside Germany?
also op, read Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, it's really good.
also wondering if Thomas Mann is really worth reading in translation.
also wondering if The Tin Drum is actually as good as people say
op, you gotta read pic related

>>12922630
this, 'God' being a metaphor (it is).

The anonymous Anon who recommended this book deserves my warmest thanks.
It's not as dark and depressing as I thought (I was expecting something like Novel with Cocaine, or Blood Dark - something so thick you can hardly keep breathing). But it's more poetic than I thought, and really significant from a 'moral' point of view. A bit less metaphysical but more literary. And while having the social and political background of the 1930's, it's still a real page-turner thanks to the 'crime story' plot (it's not a thriller, just saying it's as efficient as a thriller).
It also has niggers, and a "pleb-in-chief". Thank you for this rec, anon.