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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4644 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 1 of 9 27 December 2013 at 4:40am | IP Logged |
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I've been trying to find some really thought provoking German authors from the past 20-30 years, but I've been coming up short.
Could anyone recommend any German books similar to Jean Paul Sartre, David Foster Wallace, Roberto Bolano, Michel Houellebecq, Thomas Pynchon, Haruki Murakami etc. Basically any good fiction with a philosophical/sociological backdrop? Edited by sillygoose1 on 27 December 2013 at 4:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6069 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 9 27 December 2013 at 5:52am | IP Logged |
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The name Bernhard Schlink springs to mind. Maybe it does not correspond to your concept of "thought provoking", but you could check it out.
Another simple way to go about this is to check the latest Nobel Prize winners writing in German. Go back in time while you feel comfortable. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| flabbergasted Triglot Groupie Latvia Joined 6364 days ago 75 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Latvian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Persian | Message 3 of 9 29 December 2013 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
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Uwe Johnson, "Jahrestage"
Peter Weiss, "Die Ästhetik des Widerstands" Hermann Broch, "Der Tod des Vergil" Reinhard Jirgl - anything Arno Schmidt - anything Wolfgang Koeppen, "Tauben im Gras", "Das Treibhaus","Der Tod in Rom" Tobias Meissner, "Starfish Rules" Thomas Bernhard - anything Günter Grass, "Die Blechtrommel", "Hundejahre" Ingeborg Bachmann, "Malina" Elias Canetti, "Die Blendung" Adolf Muschg, "Der Rote Ritter. Eine Geschichte von Parzival" Gerhard Roth, "Die Archive des Schweigens" Christa Wolf, "Kassandra" Irmtraud Morgner, "Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach Zeugnissen ihrer Spielfrau Laura" Clemens J. Setz, "Die Frequenzen", "Indigo" Dieter Forte, "Tetralogie der Erinnerung" Dietmar Dath, "Für immer in Honig" W.G. Sebald - anything Alfred Döblin, " Berge Meere und Giganten" Jan Brandt, "Gegen die Welt" Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, "Rom, Blicke" 10 persons have voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4836 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 4 of 9 30 December 2013 at 2:57am | IP Logged |
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Slightly older, but: Friedrich Dürrenmatt: "Der Richter und Sein Henker"
"Der Verdacht". Also, later novels, (and plays), but I am not familiar with those. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4876 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 5 of 9 30 December 2013 at 1:32pm | IP Logged |
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Hermann Hesse - Das Glasperlenspiel
(probably also Steppenwolf - which I didn't enjoy; and some others - which I haven't yet read) Also thought of Bertolt Brecht - Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner (smart, humorous parables) Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Die Physiker (actually a comic play about the ethics of science. definitely worth reading, though not really what you were asking for, I think) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6232 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish | Message 6 of 9 30 December 2013 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt - Der Besuch der alten Dame
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| A boldog eb Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4390 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Hungarian Studies: Estonian, German, Russian | Message 7 of 9 01 January 2014 at 3:28pm | IP Logged |
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What about the works of Joseph Roth?
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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4630 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 8 of 9 01 January 2014 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
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This site might be useful to you. Besides reviews, it also contains a nice list of German-language publishers for further exploration. And the list of German language literature links is well worth checking out as well.
New Books in German 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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