/lit/ - Literature

Who is this Samen Dämon?

read the sticky

>>6982932
>not Simmen Diemän

>>6982933
reading is for faggots

>>6982921
Going straight for the obvious, Kafka's language is fairly simple, though he makes (it seems to me) odd or uncommon choices of words sometimes.

>>6982921
Hesse?

>>6982950
Should I just start with Die Verwandlung?

>>6982965
I read Der Steppenwolf but I feel like I would have got more out of it reading an English translation.

I'm wondering the same thing OP.

How much German do you know? I can read kids books pretty easily now, and I could follow what was happening in Die Verwandlung, but I think an English translation would have served me better since I was still not getting a sizable amount of what was happening.

>>6982978
I can read things like Wikipedia, the News (depending on jargon), and simple novels. I got a lot of comprehension from translations of Hemingway and Harry Potter. I struggle with German literary authors, I need to use a dictionary often and sometimes compare it to an English translation.

>>6982994
Using a dictionary and comparing to English translations is how you will improve

>>6982965
Do you have permission from that person to share that picture of her online, where it will be stored and accessible for many years?

Confusions of Young Törless

>>6982965
She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.

>>6983531
She's going to age like milk tho

>>6983549
And I would be there holding her hand as she did.

usually we recommend max frisch or duerrenmatt (although they are swiss).

>>6983671
whet a faggert

>>6983419
It's been passed around 4chan for something like eight years. If I knew her name I wouldn't give it out.

>>6983958
Literally retarded.

>>6983984
why do you still exist butterfly?
govt. is coming, fuck off

>>6983984
>Literally retarded.

Yep, some people don't know how to behave.

Faust 2

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

>>6982932
It's Samendämon tbh. Deppenleerzeichen smh.

Take German YA/kids books

Christine Nöstlinger wrote a ton of books towards 12-16 year olds, I loved Wir Pfeifen Auf Den Gurkenkönig as a kid.

I'm personally a huge fan of Walter Moers' books in the Zamonien universe, they get more mature with every book, start with 13 1/2 Leben Des Kapitän Blaubär

Then there's the YA stuff you read in school - Die Wolke (about an nuclear catastrophe), Die Welle (a teacher re-enacts a kind of Hitler Youth in his history class to teach everyone involved a lesson), In 300 Jahren Vielleicht (set during the 30 Years War, very brutal and bleak, interesting choice to teach kids Mr. Teacher) etc.

Read Michael Ende's books, they're for young people - Neverending Story (Unendliche Geschichte), Momo are the two most famous ones.

There's a famous one about a witcher which they recently made a movie from, I can't remember the name of it. Might post later.

>>6985023
>There's a famous one about a witcher which they recently made a movie from, I can't remember the name of it. Might post later.

Remembered, it's Ottfried Preußler's Krabat

>>6982972
Don't go Kafka. Kafka's language may be simple, at least to a native with some education, but I think that especially his syntax will fuck you over.

Just go with Koeppen, if you want to read overrated shit, or, depending on how good your German is, Cornelia Funke. I loved her books in primary and lower middle school, and I imagine they'd still be somewhat enjoyable.

>ctrl-f "Siddhartha"
>0 of 0

smh tbh

>>6985023
>>6985034
Fucking Krabat man. Good book.

>>6982921
Prose: Hausmärchen, Heinrich Bölls short stories, Judith Hermanns short stories (if you'd like something contemporary), maybe Kafka
Poetry: Brecht (Buckower Elegien), Heine, Goethe, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Plays: maybe Brecht

They all have pretty basic vocabulary and language, I feel.

>>6982921
Thomas Bernhard
W.G. Sebald