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ITT: recommend a book which is not included in those roughly 100 books /lit/ discusses in nearly every thread, and which is probably unknown to the majority here.

I'll start: Walter Moers - The City of Dreaming Books

>> No.3534873

>walter moers
>>>/co/

You must have taken a wrong turn at Walla Walla.

>> No.3534879

>>3534863
Friedrich Durrenmatt - The Assignment

>> No.3534883

>>3534863
>Walter Moers - The City of Dreaming Books
Walter Moers? Where do you get off, OP?

Fine I'll play along:

How the Steel was Tempered - N. Ostrovsky

Good luck finding a copy.

>> No.3534884

>>3534873
what's wrong about it?

>> No.3534887

Cesar Aira - How I Became a Nun

>> No.3534890

I've read both City of Dreaming Books and 13 and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear.

The latter is kinda rubbish because it is extremely repetitive. Goes into a situation which seems nice, wait it is horrible, saved at the last moment and repeat.

City of Dreaming Books is better, but still is nothing more than pulpy fun.

>> No.3534893

>>3534887
Are you from Argentina?
If so, have you read Lamborghini?

>> No.3534894

>>3534863
Zinner (ed) National Communism and Popular Revolt in Eastern Europe

>> No.3534898

>>3534883
Kindle edition is 77p m8

>> No.3534902

Gide's The Immoralist.

>> No.3534917

>>3534890
yea admittedly it's a light read, but nevertheless I enjoyed it very much

>> No.3534927

>>3534887
YES! YES! I love you. I really do. Have you read any of his other works? I've bought up all his work in English translation; have obtained as much as possible in the original Spanish. A truly great and unique artist.

Other books I would recommend:

—Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy

—Dalkey Archive's recent compilation of shirt stories by Hyakken Uchida.

—The Sting of Death by Toshio Shimao.

—I, the Supreme (Yo, el supremo) by Augusto Roa Bastos

—The Threepenny Novel by Bertolt Brecht

>> No.3534929

>>3534927
*short

:P

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3534932

>100

>> No.3534941

>>3534927
>Metropole
thank you anon, this book sounds intredasting, will buy

>> No.3534954

>>3534941
okay fuck it, not translated in german

>> No.3534958

>>3534941
I hope you like it, anon. How this gem of a book isn't better known is beyond me. :)

>> No.3534975

>>3534927
>Dalkey Archive's recent compilation of shirt stories by Hyakken Uchida.
I looked it up, but could only find one book of him in german, which is filled with short stories about dreams. Is that the one you recommend? I guess not...

>> No.3535003

>>3534975
Yes, those stories form part of the Dalkey Archive collection. Uchida is considered a writer's writer in Japan; admired by his colleagues for his stylish prose. One of the last things Mishima ever did, I think only about three or so weeks before his death, was write a very appreciative forward for a collection of Uchida's stories that was about to be reprinted at the time.

>> No.3535045

The Passion According to G.H. - Lispector
Motorman - Ohle
A Prayer for Owen Meany - Irving
The Book of Evidence - Banville
The Following Story - Nooteboom

>> No.3535115

>>3535045
>The Following Story - Nooteboom
I second this.

>> No.3535128

>>3535045
>The Passion According to G.H. - Lispector
Seconding this.

>> No.3535138

Stephen Donaldson's 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever'

Yeah, it's high fantasy, so sue me. I think it's done very well.

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3535145

>>3534890
Rumo's miraculous adventures is his best book (by far)

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>>3535145
I don't know that book, but I saved your cool image

>> No.3535229

>>3534958
I've read it, bretty good
Karinthy completely convinced me that it was an impossible language, even though thinking about it later it seemed implausible. Really good claustrophobic air.
Also, what did you make of the whole revolution?

>> No.3535729

>>3534927
>shirt stories

Gotta go, /lit/, stories to write.

>> No.3535757

>>3534863
Pop.1280 by jim thompson

>> No.3535776

Kaspoit! by Dennis E. Bolen: experimental prose, though perhaps a bit plot-heavy for /lit/'s vaunted taste.

De reade bwarre by Trinus Riemersma, but I don't think any of can read West Frisian.

>> No.3536416

>>3535757
>Pop.1280
Thanks, will try it out.