Genre :: Germany (15 books)

• 

  #57

  The Trial

  by Franz Kafka

  (10 Reviews)

  304 Points

  "Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #91

  The Magic Mountain

  by Thomas Mann

  (6 Reviews)

  203 Points

  "Die Geschichte Hans Castorps, die wir erzählen wollen, - nicht um seinetwillen (denn der Leser wird einen einfachen, wenn auch ansprechenden jungen Mann in ihm kennenlernen), sondern um der..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #93

  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  (5 Reviews)

  201 Points

  "Granted: I'm an inmate of a mental institution; my keeper watches me, scarcely lets me out of his sight; for there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can't see..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #170

  Buddenbrooks

  by Thomas Mann

  (3 Reviews)

  116 Points

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #201

  Austerlitz

  by W.G. Sebald

  (3 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #213

  The Glass Bead Game

  by Hermann Hesse

  (3 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #233

  The Man Without Qualities

  by Robert Musil

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #238

  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

  by Heinrich Böll

  (3 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #269

  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  by Patrick Suskind

  (11 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #343

  Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D.

  by Stefan Zweig

  (1 Review)

  64 Points

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It