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I basically just tried to think of books I've read that were in some way memorable or that I've reread several times. Many of them ended up being German or children's books, and... yeah, you probably don't even know most of them buuuuuut yeah. Here's my list~
01. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
02. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
03. Denn ich wache über deinen Schlaf - Stefan Niederwieser
04. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
05. A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
06. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
07. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
08. Pünktchen und Anton - Erich Kästner
09. Der Richer und sein Henker - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
10. Jane Eyre - Emily Brontë
11. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
12. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor - Lucy Christopher
13. Famous Five - Enyd Blyton
14. Nie mehr Keks und Schokolade - Susanne Fülsch
15. Blindness - José Saramago
16. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
17. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
18. Der Hahn ist tot - Ingrid Noll
19. Die Verwandlung - Franz Kafka
20. Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind
21. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
22. Der Tod in Venedig - Thomas Mann
23. La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu - Jean Giraudoux
24. Kassandra - Christa Wolf
25. The Wave - Morton Rhue
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Below is a list of5025* works of 'literature' that have influenced me in various ways (in no particular order), ranging from the mundane to the esoteric, new to old, frivolous to serious, children's lit and beyond.
I basically just tried to think of books I've read that were in some way memorable or that I've reread several times. Many of them ended up being German or children's books, and... yeah, you probably don't even know most of them buuuuuut yeah. Here's my list~
01. Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
02. Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
03. Denn ich wache über deinen Schlaf - Stefan Niederwieser
04. Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
05. A Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
06. A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
07. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
08. Pünktchen und Anton - Erich Kästner
09. Der Richer und sein Henker - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
10. Jane Eyre - Emily Brontë
11. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
12. Stolen: A Letter to My Captor - Lucy Christopher
13. Famous Five - Enyd Blyton
14. Nie mehr Keks und Schokolade - Susanne Fülsch
15. Blindness - José Saramago
16. Rabbit Redux - John Updike
17. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
18. Der Hahn ist tot - Ingrid Noll
19. Die Verwandlung - Franz Kafka
20. Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind
21. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
22. Der Tod in Venedig - Thomas Mann
23. La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu - Jean Giraudoux
24. Kassandra - Christa Wolf
25. The Wave - Morton Rhue
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Date: 2013-11-06 12:42 am (UTC)I didn't much like A Handmaid's Tale, but then, I've never much appreciated books that even vaguely fall under the 'dystopic' genre.
I haven't read Blindness, but it looks really interesting! I'll have to find a copy.
You like Die Verwandlung (That's The Metamorphoses, right?)? I could never get past the symbolism and metaphors Kafka tries to hammer into the reader's head. It was too heavy-handed for me.
Ah, Perfume! ♥
I shall have to look into some of the other ones.
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Date: 2013-11-06 01:20 pm (UTC)I loved A Handmaid's Tale - but I also love dystopic stuff in general, especially dystopic YA novels. Like... The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.
Blindness was really good, as far as I remember. I read it in high school at some point. There's a movie about it too!
Um... yep, I think Die Verwandlung is The Metamorphoses, and I don't remember if I liked it, exactly, but... it left an impression, I guess? Haha. We had a great German teacher when we read it, so maybe I think I liked it because I liked what she told us about it.
Perfume is awesooome. My brother had to read it for school, and he didn't like it. How can you not? But he doesn't like reading in general, so that might explain it~
Hmm, let's see. Faust is a play from the... 18th century...ish? 17th? I don't remember when it was written but it's about a guy who's never satisfied and ends up making a deal with the devil... It's mostly the language that's amazing, so I don't know if it would be the same in English. But I read it in my last year of high school and still quote it from time to time!
Denn ich wache über deinen Schlaf is a about a gay couple... so no "classic literature". I don't even remember what it was about, exactly, but I think one of them dies and I ended up bawling my eyes out lol
Pünktchen und Anton is for kids. It's cute. I think Erich Kästner's books were translated, though, so maybe you know... Emil and the Detectives? Or maybe Das doppelte Lottchen, which is basically the story the movie The Parent Trap was based on? Or not based on, exactly - but that's the basic story.
Der Richter und sein Henker is... I'm not sure cause I've read several of his books, but they're all really, really good.
Nie mehr Keks und Schokolade is a book about a bulimic girl. For teens. Nothing special, really, but I know I loved it and read it several times when I was like... 12-15.
Der Hahn ist tot... I don't remember the plot at all but I know I loved it, haha. Which doesn't really help a lot. But a friend and I read it to each other when we were on vacation and I do know we both enjoyed it.
Der Tod in Venedig is pretty well-known - Death in Venice? I don't know but you may know it. It's about this middle-aged guy who goes to Venice and ends up falling in love with a pretty, young boy and then... well, dies.
La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu is a play about the war of... Troy. But the war doesn't happen. It's really funny. I don't remember why the war doesn't happen in the end but it was a pretty easy, fun read, which, when it comes to French books, really isn't always the case. I could probably list about 20 French books that I hated, mostly because they were French, haha.
And finally... Kassandra is... also about Troy! Cassandra, the Seer?, is captured, and... I don't think it's the plot that really matters, but it's really "deep" and critical about... Cold War Germany, as far as I remember?? and feminist, and I don't even remember much about it, except that I found it very fascinating when we read it in high school.
Aaaand... the rest are originally English/American, I believe, so you should be able to find out about them on your own. :D
Wow, this turned out way longer than I expected it to.
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Date: 2013-11-06 03:28 pm (UTC)