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Hey /lit/, I'm learning german and I want to know if Germany has great contemporary writers or some modernist that I should give a look.

The last german book I read was Mussil, but not in Deutsch.

>> No.3545378

Alfred Döblin (Berlin Alexanderplatz), Albert Vigoleis Thelen, (The Island of Second Sight), Wolfgang Koeppen (Pigeons on the Grass, The Hothouse, Death in Rome), Alfred Andersch (Flight to Afar), Arno Schmidt (Zettel's Traum, Brand's Haide) and maybe Günther Grass (The Tindrum).

>> No.3545377

W.G. Sebald
T. Bernhard

>> No.3545389

I'm also learning German, OP. How's it going for you so far? How far along are you? Also, how long did it take you to read your first book in German?

>> No.3545408

>>3545389
Started 6 months ago, in the start I was very sloppy, but in the last months I'm studying sometimes like 3 hours a day and always trying to read newspaper, listening radio, using german youtube's channel,etc.

Actually I didn't even read literature in German, just grammar books, newspapers and things like that. I push hard, even if I lost 3/4 times just looking for the world meaning. I think it is working, so I'm asking for help to find somehing that I would like to read in the last months to not lose my dedication.

Also, Duolingo, Hammer Grammar, a lot of Lang-8 and looking for new words, actually my listen/talk is pretty shitty, but I don't care so much.

>> No.3545413

>>3545408
What is your technique for building vocabulary? I've been thinking of using some kind of flash card program.

>> No.3545415

>>3545389
märchen (fairy tales) are a good place to start. if you are a wittgenstein fan, the tractatus is really easy since it's so straightforward.

>> No.3545638

>>3545413
http://trainer.pons.eu/

It could appear a little stupid, but I think that really help.

>> No.3545700

>>3545340
Robert Walser.
Heimito von Doderer.

/thread

>> No.3545704

>>3545377
Yes! W.G. Sebald! Him too. One of the greatest writers ever, in my opinion.

>> No.3546206

Thomas Mann: Death in Venice, Tonio Kroeger, Buddenbrooks.

>> No.3546372

>>3545340
There's this Kafka guy who is pretty good.

>> No.3546395

Georg Trakl

>> No.3546702

>>3545340

Brecht

>> No.3546902

Wolfgang Herrndorf

>> No.3546962

Try Die Leiden des jungen Werther by Goethe. The book is great and the language is rather simple.

>>3545415
Bad idea. Even if the German is easy, he still won´t understand shit if he´s not a formal logic buff.

>>3546206
I read Death in Venice in German and found it unbearably tedious.

>> No.3546994

>>3545408
>Duolingo
I've been using this, started maybe 3 weeks ago. Thanks for listing those other resources, I'll check them out.

I recommend the Michel Thomas recordings for learning basics, that dude knew his shit.

>> No.3547001

>>3546994
To add, aside from the Chinese (I think), any recording not my Michel Thomas is shit. IIRC the guy who did the Mandarin one studied Michel's methods, the rest are cash ins.

>> No.3549514

>>3546994
>>3547001
Anybody has another opinion about this method?