Looking for good fiction/nonfiction written during, or I suppose about, the interwar period (WWI/II). Largely for cultural research, but also for fun. Any recommendations? I'd be willing to branch into during-either-war as well.
Brave New World was published in 32 and is breddy gud. read it understanding the context of the era and it'll make ya think
>Joyce
>Faulkner
>Woolf
You literally can't go wrong in the interwar period/
In the US:
The Great Gatsby (20s)
The Grapes of Wrath (30s)
>>8163891
W.G. Sebald. Thank me later.
Isherwood's Berlin Stories. Waugh's Scoop is great for the period when everyone thought WWII wouldn't happen; Brideshead Revisisted is a good span of the changing attitudes of the period too in Britain. Anais Nin's diaries if you want the skinny on the Lost Generation in Paris.
>>8163891
Pretty much all of Hemingway was written during and about the interwar period.
Joseph Roth - The Spider's Web
Alfred Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
somerset Maugham you stupid fucks
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn
James T Farrell - Young Lonigan
William S Burroughs - Queer
Joseph Pla - The Gray Notebook
Nathanael West - Day of the Locusts + Miss Lonelyhearts
Wyndham Lewis - The Apes of God
Nella Larsen - Passing
>>8164551
Oh also Journey to the End of the Night
Hans Fallada's novels, if you're interested in a German perspective.
The Jungle
