October / Germany Reading Poll

Faust- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellent nominations so far!
But I see that Thomas Mann has not been mentioned yet. My favourite novel is 'Buddenbrooks', but as it is very long and apparently not very well-known outside Germany, I'll nominate 'The Death in Venice'. (I hope that's the right English title.)

Hmmmm how about Hesse's Beneath the Wheel? I would like to nominate it if there is still any place left.

Wait...are we talking about literature written in German, or just literature from Germany?

Novels written in German by German authors from Germany.

I'm waiting for Sche to list the list again, :lol.

I am not sure which I can do, depending on which title comes out ahead.

Okay, okay... If I must! :p

Here are the nominations so far:

1. The Caucasian Chalk Circle By Bertolt Brecht

2. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Döblin

3. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by H Boell

4. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

5. The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind.

6. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7. The Death in Venice by T. Mann

8. Beneath the Wheel by Hesse

Last two nominations up for grabs!

Thank ye Sche

I've had this on my reading list, so let's give it a try.

The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch


No it's not my death. :p So don't get your hopes up. :D

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Originally Posted by Virgil

I've had this on my reading list, so let's give it a try.

The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch


No it's not my death. :p So don't get your hopes up. :D

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Broch, like Musil, is Austrian?

Virgil, I personally hated that book (it's not often that it happens), so if you ever read it I'd like to know what you thought of it. I know that authoritatively speaking this book has a good backing...

Here are the nominations so far:

1. The Caucasian Chalk Circle By Bertolt Brecht

2. Berlin Alexanderplatz by Döblin

3. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by H Boell

4. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

5. The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind.

6. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7. The Death in Venice by T. Mann

8. Beneath the Wheel by Hesse

Last two nominations up for grabs!

Galileo by Bertolt Brecht

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Originally Posted by barbara0207

Excellent nominations so far!
But I see that Thomas Mann has not been mentioned yet. My favourite novel is 'Buddenbrooks', but as it is very long and apparently not very well-known outside Germany, I'll nominate 'The Death in Venice'. (I hope that's the right English title.)

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Oh, both of these are on my wish list. I've got them in my Amazon basket as we speak, after high praise from another forumer. But as Death in Venice is a novella/short story I think, it would be a better choice, time-wise. :thumbs_up

Damn, Dürrenmatt is Swiss. I would have nominated something (like Der Besuch der alten Dame) by him, if he was German.
Curses! Foiled again!