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German language literature Anonymous Thu Feb 22 01:48:54 2018 No.10739264 [Reply] [Original]

I want to read some german books but i don't know where to start
What do you recommend?

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>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 01:53:30 2018 No.10739273 >>10739264 reading french books

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 01:57:35 2018 No.10739285 >>10739269 >Austrian

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 02:03:45 2018 No.10739295 >>10739264 This pic always makes me think

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 06:57:33 2018 No.10739861 Kafka wrote all his works in German

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 08:28:48 2018 No.10740072 >>10739264 fuck this gay earth

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 11:17:26 2018 No.10740653 >>10739285 >Austrians are Germans

Anonymous Thu Feb 22 11:34:53 2018 No.10740712

Nietzsche is a wonderful prose stylist. He makes German playful in a way that most people would have thought was impossible.

Goethe is also supposed to be pretty good but I haven't read enough of him to know. (Bows head in shame.)

Try GF Lichtenberg's aphorisms,or something by Egon Friedell (kinda the D.F.Wallace of his time).

Anonymous Thu Feb 22 11:59:46 2018 No.10740839

>>10739264
Enter through the enlightenment (Lessing), then swing over to Sturm & Drang (early Schiller & Goethe), continue with the classicists (Schiller, Goethe, Wieland, Herder), catch up with Kleist and then rendez-vous with the romantics (Novalis, Tieck, Hölderlin -> Brentano, Arnim, Chamisso, Grimm Bros, Fouqé, Paul -> Eichendorff, Hoffmann -> Heine), race through the restauration (Mörike, Hülshof, Büchner, Stifter, Keller, Grillparzer, Storm, Fontane, Hauptmann), after visiting the viennese (Rilke, Trakl, George, Hofmannsthal)
move on to modernism (Kafka, R. Walser, Mann, Jünger, Zweig, Broch, Musil, Hesse, Döblin) and prepare for the post-war lit (Koeppen, Brecht, Frisch, Schmidt, Böll, Grass -> Bernhard -> Sebald)

Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:02:18 2018 No.10740849

Thomas Mann - his short stories and novellas might be easier to familarise yourself with at first than his novels.
Franz Kafka - hardly needs an introduction. entertaining. read a bit about the way his syntax and stuff works in german that doesn't always come across in translations. interesting.
Goethe - another who needs no introduction, not that I'd be able to give you one. I haven't read any of his works.
Nietzsche - amazing stylist, lightning.
Musil - start with Torless
some other fags

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:03:04 2018 No.10740852 >>10740653 >>>Austrians are Germans They're almost Slavs desu. Prussia was proto-Germany.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:12:22 2018 No.10740895 >>10740852 Austrians are german speaking italians

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:16:02 2018 No.10740909 >>10739264 Brecht, Hegel, Tucholsky, Hesse, Kant, the list goes on...

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:20:26 2018 No.10740931 >>10739264 >>10739295 Is there a story behind that pic?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:25:01 2018 No.10740959 How good is your German, OP? A lot of these >>10740839 are pretty hard to read if you're not a native speaker.

Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:33:02 2018 No.10741006

>>10739264
Books by Germans in English, or in the original German? Goethe's "Sorrows of Young Werther" and "Faust" are both great work of literature in English, but they're another level entirely in German. You tend to lose quite a bit in translation, but probably less for German (and maybe Russian) than for French or Spanish as a native English speaker.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 12:35:30 2018 No.10741022 Arno Schmidt

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 13:54:58 2018 No.10741442 Henrich Von Kleist is great The Duel The Marquise of O Michael Kohlhass all are excellent short stories.

Anonymous Thu Feb 22 14:03:23 2018 No.10741482

>>10739264
Seeing it all in colour makes me realize just how nihilistic and death cult-y nazism really is.

The aesthetic couldn’t be more different from the communists. More than anything, the room of every communist I’ve seen in more books than it is anything. Maybe a bust of Lenin, Marx, and Mao. A Soviet Flag, a Cuban Flag. Then posters of heroic workers building a better world.

Anonymous Thu Feb 22 14:06:07 2018 No.10741500

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, the most influentual german critic (doesnt matter what you think of him, he was the most influental) created a canon of german literature. http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Reich_Ranicki_kanon.htm If you scroll down youll find a list of novels.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 14:13:19 2018 No.10741536 >>10740931 The drinking milk=white supremacist thing

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 14:24:19 2018 No.10741589 >>10741500 He was basically Germany's Harold Bloom.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 14:24:43 2018 No.10741593 >>10739285 >thinks Austrians speak a different language the state of leftytards

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 14:26:37 2018 No.10741603 >>10739264 fpbp

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 14:30:25 2018 No.10741622 >>10741593 Nö Oida, is eh ned so foisch

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 22 17:31:18 2018 No.10742395 >>10741006 Shit man i read faust in the original german That shit was nigh impenetrable

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