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Anonymous Fri Oct 5 04:04:16 2012 No.3033293 [Reply] [Original]

What books can I read to learn about Germany's history in a first person POV? It can be any genre.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 06:24:32 2012 No.3033405 For the XXth Century, you may tried to find books of Ernst Junger (Storm of Steel, his diary) and Ernst Von Salomon. I do not know if they have never been translated in english.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 06:36:11 2012 No.3033423 The Dreamthief's Daughter by Micheal Moorcock No seriously.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 06:38:11 2012 No.3033427 Bierbike is such a retarded yet hillarious thing. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 06:56:12 2012 No.3033458 >>3033427 it was funny the first time but spend a cople hours in germany you quickly tire of them. it doesnt help that its always the same bloke riding it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 07:06:13 2012 No.3033477 >>3033405 >>Ernst Jünger WTF /lit/... that is like if someone asked you about books on the British educational system and you told them to read Harry Potter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 07:13:13 2012 No.3033486 Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben by Fritz Wöss

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 07:14:13 2012 No.3033487 why is first person POV so important to you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 07:40:52 2012 No.3033528 The Cannibal by John Hawkes

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:00:14 2012 No.3033551 Die Blechtrommel by Günther Grass would be my first recommendation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:01:13 2012 No.3033554 >>3033477 0/10

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:19:39 2012 No.3033580 >>3033551 Not cool. That guy was a nazi...

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:51:45 2012 No.3033651 >>3033580 That makes his POV even more interesting. Also: who wasn't?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:54:45 2012 No.3033654 >>3033651 >Also: who wasn't? Ernst Junger...

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:54:45 2012 No.3033655 Mein Kampf

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:56:48 2012 No.3033658 Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is a must-read if you're trying to get to know German history a bit. The POV is more a family than a specific person, but that shouldn't matter. It won Mann the Nobel prise, by the way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 08:58:47 2012 No.3033663 >>3033658 Thomas Mann + POV = Dr Faustus

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 09:04:47 2012 No.3033676 >>3033658 Die Blechtrommel won Grass the Nobel Prize too, and it much more fun to read. Buddenbrooks can be very tedious and it's a bad introduction into German literature.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 09:10:49 2012 No.3033691 How about Deutschland ein Wintermärchen. Its funny as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 09:18:41 2012 No.3033705 >>3033691 agreed. anything by heine really.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 09:23:57 2012 No.3033723 The Reader Winslet-tits not included :(

>>	sandwiches Fri Oct 5 13:09:16 2012 No.3034128 WG Sebald.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 13:11:54 2012 No.3034132 >>3034128 I loved Austerlitz

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 5 13:49:00 2012 No.3034204 >>3034132 Me too! "Austerlitz" is great.