Hey, Lits!
So we have this chinese exchange student wo is eager to get into german culture via literature.
Does not have to be BY a german or IN german but more like about german/european mentality/ culture at core.
A clear kind language would be preferable since he is not on native speaker never yet.
What would you recommend?
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf
>>7480625
Stefan Zweig - Die Welt von Gestern
>>7480637
okay cool why
havnt read myself
Condition allemande in a nutshell:
Ludwig Bechstein, Märchen
Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus
E. T. A. Hoffmann, Klein Zaches
Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz
Daniel Kehlmann, Die Vermessung der Welt
>>7480651
Clear language, spans a lifetime up to 1942,ends with the IRL suicide of the author.
It's about Vienna, by a Jewish Austrian, describes the Jahrhundertwende, WWI, interbellum years, Nazis. Youth, school system, sexual morals, Freud, life as an author. Also, it's fascinating.
>>7480688
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There's no hint of that in the book though - it hit me pretty hard when I found out, having shortly finished the book.
Just visited Zweig's house in Salzburg this morning. There's something kind of comfy about his description of typing on a typewriter in bed in winter, hiding his hands under the covers to warm them up between every sentence.
Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee
Erika, oder der verborgene Sinn des Lebens
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
Divine Comedy 2bh
Madame de Stael
>>7480940
>Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
I like Kästner but did never see it as euro canon.
Thanks to you all!!
>>7481349
>euro canon
It's definitely not euro canonical (Emil und die Detektive isn't either I believe, correct me if I'm wrong), although he brings up his pacifist position rather well with it.
Die Leiden des jungen Werther - Goethe
Die Judenbuche - Droste-Hülshoff
Die Weber - Hauptmann
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan - Brecht
all stuff of Kästner
Die Vermessung der Welt - Kehlmann
last but not least Struwelpeter
>>7481615
Faust is surely the better Goethe