/lit/ - Literature

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Kafka and Hesse

>>18966710
Basiert uezs

>>18966678
I found Kafka to be fairly easy to get into when I was learning.

>>18966710

ganzvoll basiert

>>18966751
>>18966725

thank you, is there any book in particular you recommend?

>>18966758
I just read Siddhartha in English. Definitely worth a read, especially if you have an interest in Buddhism. He also writes particularly simply which might make it a good book for you.

>>18966758
Not that anon, but Der Prozess and Demian are straightforward.

Other stuff I had Spaß mit waren Drei Männer im Schnee, Ein Doppelganger, Der Vorleser, Schach Novelle. Alle relativ einfach.

>>18966725
>>18966751
>>18966798
>>18966806
Also a Deutsch lerner, I can confirm Siddhartha, Der Prozess, Der Vorleser, and Schach Novelle were fairly easy to get through with a dictionary in hand. Even so, I could only just catch the plot and characters, no subtleties yet (I'd read Kafka and Zweig in English before and felt like I missed a lot in the original). I found pic related series to be immensely helpful, although OP may be beyond their level by now.

>>18966678
Die unendliche Geschichte - Michael Ende. . .oviously

>>18966678
Siddharta is easy. It was the first real book I read in German. Not everything by Hesse is on the same level though: das Glasperlenspiel was much harder, and I had to wait much longer before I could comfortably read Der Steppenwolf.

If you like fantasy, give a try to Stein und Flöte. It should be pretty easy for your level, and it's considered a hidden gem.

yes yes learn german my mutts. you wilö entering the world of the greatest humor in the world.


here is an example:

"Was sind Sie von Beruf?"
"Zauberkünstler."
"Zauberkünstler?"
"Ja, ich zersäge Mädchen."
"Haben Sie auch Geschwister?"
"Ja, zwei Halbschwestern."

I would suggest Homo Faber by Max Frisch because it ist quite entertaining and written in a more modern german than Der Prozess which has a lot of vocabulary that is never used anymore. Steppenwolf hast more obscure vocabulary than Homo Faber but still not as outdated as Der Prozess so I'd say read that afterwards.

This list might be useful to you, it was in the back of a goethe collection

>>18967420

I read a few pages of Der Prozess and Homo Faber. Although I could understand everything that was going on, I must say the Kafka was a harder read. Homo Faber is actually quite easy to follow and it's also shorter, so yeah I think I'll stick with that one. Good shit anon thank you.

Any online lectures?

>>18966678
Steppenwolf

>>18966806
>Der Prozess
>straightforward
I like The Trial, but it's full of difficult-to-parse legalese (which in the context of the story it makes sense ofc.) But I really would not recommend it for a first-time german literature reading experience. If you like Kafka, read Das Urteil first, it's a short story, Kafka wrote it in one night and it's a great, short read. If you like the writing style, then you can try advance to Der Prozess.

You should read some of Dürrenmatt's detective stories: Das Versprechen, Der Verdacht, Der Richter und sein Henker

>>18966678
In university I asked my professor this same question. In front of the class he gave the standard answers: Kafka, Hesse, Mann if you’re stupid (as was his cheeky way), but then after class he stopped me at the door. Follow me to my office he said. Truth awaits. I smiled and went along because he was a good, charismatic guy, and soon enough we were in the cramped hallways of the language department and he was leading me around corners they seemed to get dimmer and yellower. Most of the offices were shut and the ones I could see through were…not normal. In one room a young girl looked up at me from behind her desk as the door closed. In another, two men in their forties sat on the same side of the desk and worked fervently at papers. The professor was cool though. He led me on and said don’t mind them. He seemed to know what I thought. Eventually we reached his office and sat down—how comfy! Books were all over, world literature in a room, and my professor took off his coat. “So you wanna better your German?” he said. I nodded. “Well there’s two books you need to read. First, the all-in-one, Eckermann’s Gespräche mit Goethe, of course. Three readings of that along with vocabulary study will set you straight.” Of course! How could I forget. I nodded excitingly and told him of course, and then his face grew serious. The room darkened. The sun outside was gone. “And then,” he said, “there’s one more.” I must have gulped—I don’t remember much. I let out some kind of noise and he went on. “Taking Away From Tonight.” “H-huh?” I said. “Read that book. ASAP.” I said okay, and wanted to get out of there fast, and I did, but the hallways were a labyrinth, and the rooms sped up, and I collapsed and found myself in the lobby with my professor’s hand around my shoulder. It was the twilight zone and the end of Thriller, and he was asking me if I was okay. “Y-yeah,” I said. “Don’t be so weird!” he said. “Relax.” “O-okay.” After that I think my grade went down. I never did finish college. Once a week I dream I’m late for class. I am gay.

>>18966884
this looks promising.

dino lernt deutsch was getting borring af fr fr

>>18969875
It was entertaining and helpful. I discovered them when I was in the A1-A2 range and found this first one easy enough that I could capture the meaning through context if I didn’t know the vocabulary or the expression being used, but challenging enough that it encouraged me to improve (I would find myself missing constructions or expressions I had recently studied but hadn’t practiced yet). It’s simple stuff, you can tell it isn’t the natural way people speak, but it’s entertaining.

>>18969765

This book seems lame and awful. "Adolescent coming of age story". Lol