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>age
>country
>a writer and their piece of literature from your country that every foreigner should read

>> No.7109754

>37
>America
>William W. Johnstone - Phoenix Rising

>> No.7109763

>age
19
>country
Germany
>a writer and their piece of literature from your country that every foreigner should read
Peter Stamm - Agnes
Kafka - Die Verwandlung (not that there is anybody on /lit/ who hasn't read it)

>> No.7109767

>>7109750
>20
>canada
>no one

>> No.7109774

>21
>US of KEK
>Steinbeck's East of Eden

>> No.7109782

>23
>Norway
>Ibsen, obviously, Gengangerne.

>> No.7109788

>>7109750
>24
>US
>Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

>> No.7109806

20
Korea
이상-날게

>> No.7109813

>>7109750
>21
>Czech Republic
>Jaroslav Hašek - The Good Soldier Švejk

>> No.7109817

22
Sweden
Aniara by Harry Martinson

Except you can't, because it's an epic poem and even if the English translation wasn't out of print it would be awful to read it in English.

>> No.7109824

>>7109806
Speak English you cunt. I'm guessing it's either Ko Un or Hwang Sok-yong?

>> No.7109826

24
France
Z comme Zemmour

>> No.7109832

>>7109817
Damn, I guess I'll just have to content myself with John Milton and Edmund Spenser instead :(

>> No.7109836

>>7109824
Wings by Yisang
The translated title sounds tacky as fuck

>> No.7109844

>22
>Germany
>Thomas Bernhard - Holzfällen. Eine Erregung

>> No.7109848

>>7109832
Kek
The only thing you'll gain by learning Swedish is an increased appreciating of Nordic Skiing tbh

>> No.7109850

>>7109844
He's Austrian

>> No.7109856
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>>7109850
>Austria
>Not part of Germany

>> No.7109863

>>7109767
>>7109767
Canada has plenty of good lit.

>26
>Canada
>sunshine sketches of a little town

>> No.7109944

25
Brazil
Carlos Drummond de Andrade

>> No.7110004

23
Argentina
Oliverio Girondo, Veinte poemas para ser leídos en el tranvía

>> No.7110028

19
France
Jean Giono, Que ma joie demeure

>> No.7110032 [DELETED] 

>15
>Austria
>Someone already mentioned Thomas Bernhard so I would choose 36 Stunden from Ödön von Horvath

>> No.7110034

>20
>Greece
>Nikos Kazantzakis
>Salvatores Dei, Christ Recrucified.

the former in web form, if anyone's interested: http://www.angel.net/~nic/askitiki.html

>> No.7110173

>19
>Germany
>Wolfgang Koeppen - Tauben im Gras
It´s a popular book in our German classes in school

>> No.7110181

>24
>USA
>Leaves of Grass

>> No.7110193

>>7109826
j'ai ri

>> No.7110194

>>7110032
enjoy your ban

>> No.7110195

23
united states
stephen king's moby dick

it's a masterpiece

>> No.7110196

22
USA
Hart Crane

>> No.7110207

>20
>serbia
>koreni (roots, probably translated as Origins)

>> No.7110214

>21
>Spain
>San Manuel Bueno Mártir by Unamuno

>> No.7110218

>>7109824
Maybe he thinks you shouldn't read translation. >>7110194
shhh, dont tell them the secret.

>> No.7110219

>>7109750
nah

>> No.7110268

26
Brasil
Guimarães Rosa - The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (Grandes Sertões Veredas)
and
Moacyr Scliar - The Centaur in the Garden

>> No.7110271

>>7109763
>Germany
>Kafka

what man

>> No.7110276

>17
>Northern Ireland
>Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist

>> No.7110282

>19
>The Netherlands
>Nescio's short stories. The translation is called Amsterdam Stories.

>> No.7110284

>>7110271
>18
>America
>Nabokov - Lolita

>> No.7110285

>>7109763
>Germany
>Peter Stamm
...is Swiss

>> No.7110308

22
U.S.
The Things They Carried

>> No.7110355

21
Belgium
'Kaas' by Willem Elsschot (probably translated as 'Cheese').

>> No.7110363

>>7110218
>Maybe he thinks you shouldn't read translation.

Which would make his recommendation completely useless.

>> No.7110374

>>7110193
>jerry trayfor :noel:
Fils de pute.

>> No.7110381

>>7110276
I was going to ask if Heaney was the best Northern Ireland could do but after a quick google it seems he is

>> No.7110388

>>7109750
>17
>Northern Ireland
>The Great Divorce and anything else written by C.S. Lewis

>> No.7110392

25
Brazil
Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado de Assis

>> No.7110460

22
Ireland
ULYSSES

>> No.7110470

24
Canada
Barney's Version - Mordecai Richler

>> No.7111266

29 greece
cavafy poems

>> No.7111292

>>7110392
Epitaph of a small Weiner morelikeit amirite?

>> No.7111721

>>7110392
>Não Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
Plebeu