Cultural books set in Germany (6)
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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe DE
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Den store tragedien om alkymisten og filosofen Faust er en av hjørnesteinenei tysk - og europeisk - litteratur. Det sentrale motivet er pakten Faust har inngått med djevelen: Faust skal få hjelp til å nå alle sine mål, men han skal miste sin sjel til det onde dersom han fristes til å holde fast ved øyeblikket og glemmer sin sannhetssøken og streben etter erkjennelse.
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The Appointment : A Novel by Katharina Volckmer EN
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“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han Kang, a whip-smart debut novel in which a woman on the verge of major change addresses her doctor in a stream of consciousness narrative. In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can bar... continue
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The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe EN
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"Be on your guard … and take care not to fall in love!" Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her and his infatuation torments him to the point of absolute despair. The first great ‘confessional’ novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther draws both on Goethe’s own unrequited love for Charlotte Buff and on the death of his friend Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem. The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around... continue
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Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend.
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Escrita tras las trágicas experiencias de la Gran Guerra, DEMIAN es una de las obras más emblemáticas de Hermann Hesse (1877-1962). La novela -en la que late la repulsa de la sociedad burguesa y masificada y el llamamiento a los elegidos (los que llevan en su frente el estigma de Caín) para conquistar la autenticidad y emprender la reconstrucción comunitaria de la humanidad- traza, como reza su subtítulo, la historia de la juventud de Emil Sinclair, quien, en ruptura con el mundo claro y seguro de su infancia, va a la busca de su personalidad y su destino, sólo realizables en el mundo oscuro, ... continue
