by Daniel Kehlmann Fame – the title of he book – is all too familiar to Daniel Kehlmann, who gained world fame with his previous novel “Die Vermessung der Welt”…
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by Anthony Burgess Everybody knows Kubrick’s movie. In fact the movie helped Burgess to become famous. As many, first I watched the movie. Normally it is the other way around:…
by Gabriel García Márquez If you want to know everything the mechanisms of a dictatorship in the flavor of an old-fashioned despotism, you will find an all-encompassing picture in this…
by Sibylle Lewitscharoff Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a German writer of Bulgarian descent. In this book she tramples on every aspect of Bulgarian pride. She and her sister accompanied the transfer…
by Bohumil Hrabal Hrabal write in the great Czech tradition of grotesque tales. The Pikkolo is such a typical character, who has always its own positive interpretation of the events…
by Josh Bazell This thriller was highly recommended by my favourite literature show. Additionally, when I visited Munich this month it was heavily promoted by the book-store chain Hugendubel. It…
by Per Olov Enquist This is one of these books you would never read without recommendation. My recommendation was the series “Great Novels of the 20th Century” published by the…
by Walter Kempowski “From Great Times” – that is the ambiguous title of the book. The great times are always in the past when you are getting older. But these…
by Truman Capote Of course, everybody knows at least the title of this book, or even saw the movie with Cathrine Hephburn. I read the book first, now… as a…
by Siri Hustvedt A shrink from New York discovers his own abysses. The shrink is Erik Davidson and he tells us the story of his family. After his father died,…