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[Maddy]

I need some book/genre/country inspiration for the many books I'm gonna read during the summer. Preferably light (vacation style) without being soemthing from Oprahs book club and soem average crime novel.

I enjoy social realism - especially working class-literature, magic realism, historical novels and of course the classics - big fan of the 'Hemingway generation'. But I always seem to fall back to English, American, Danish, Japanese and German literature.

Currently reading Günter Grass.

@Dostoevsky @GordoDeCentral @Martin @Post Ironic

 

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[Wittl]

I need some book/genre/country inspiration for the many books I'm gonna read during the summer. Preferably light (vacation style) without being soemthing from Oprahs book club and soem average crime novel.

I enjoy social realism - especially working class-literature, magic realism, historical novels and of course the classics - big fan of the 'Hemingway generation'. But I always seem to fall back to English, American, Danish, Japanese and German literature.

A pitty this one hasn't been translated in english or danish yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faserland

FFS, there's even a latvian or hebrew version, but not an english one.

 

[Maddy]

A pitty this one hasn't been translated in english or danish yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faserland

FFS, there's even a latvian or hebrew version, but not an english one.

I can read German and Swedish, you cocksucker. Altho German would take too much concentration.

 

[Wittl]

I can read German and Swedish, you cocksucker. Altho German would take too much concentration.

Apropos cocksucker:

This novel has been translated into danish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_(novel)

It's not bad either.

He's my favorite modern swiss writer.

In this novel f.e. he describes europe in case Lenin wouldn't have left switzerland for starting the russian revolution and stayed there to make the something similar in switzerland. It's really amusing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_werde_hier_sein_im_Sonnenschein_und_im_Schatten

 

[Maddy]

Apropos cocksucker:

This novel has been translated into danish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_(novel)

It's not bad either.

He's my favorite modern swiss writer.

In this novel f.e. he describes europe in case Lenin wouldn't have left switzerland for starting the russian revolution and stayed there to make the something similar in switzerland. It's really amusing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_werde_hier_sein_im_Sonnenschein_und_im_Schatten

I know of Imperium, but haven't read it. I'll look into 1979 and Imperium (both translated to danish).

Cheers

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Apropos cocksucker:

This novel has been translated into danish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_(novel)

It's not bad either.

He's my favorite modern swiss writer.

In this novel f.e. he describes europe in case Lenin wouldn't have left switzerland for starting the russian revolution and stayed there to make the something similar in switzerland. It's really amusing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_werde_hier_sein_im_Sonnenschein_und_im_Schatten

The local library got em.

https://genbib.dk/search/ting/christian kracht?facets[]=facet.type:bog

 

[Wittl]

I know of Imperium, but haven't read it. I'll look into 1979 and Imperium (both translated to danish).

Cheers

Or I love the books of Sven Regener. His first book Herr Lehmann has been translated into english (english title: Berlin blues): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herr_Lehmann

I like his books, because he writes his books in a beautiful and entertaining language, but his stories are hilarious too. I hope the translator managed to do the same in english.

Here you can read an extract (chapters 1 and 2), maybe you like it.:

https://webreader.mytolino.com/reader/index.html#/epub?epuburl=https:%2F%2Fleseprobe.buch.de%2Fimages-adb%2Fda%2F0c%2Fda0c0c9b-945d-4f46-9fdd-80bdfa4b893c.epub&purchaseurl=https:%2F%2Fwww.orellfuessli.ch%2Fshop%2Fromane-erzaehlungen-15590%2Fwarenkorb%2Fadd%2F%3FartikelId%3D5695559&backref=https:%2F%2Fwww.orellfuessli.ch%2Fshop%2Fromane-erzaehlungen-15590%2Fartikeldetails%2Fberlin_blues%2Fsven_regener%2FISBN0-09-944923-4%2FID5695559.html

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The local library got em.

https://genbib.dk/search/ting/christian kracht?facets[]=facet.type:bog

 

[GordoDeCentral]

I need some book/genre/country inspiration for the many books I'm gonna read during the summer. Preferably light (vacation style) without being soemthing from Oprahs book club and soem average crime novel.

I enjoy social realism - especially working class-literature, magic realism, historical novels and of course the classics - big fan of the 'Hemingway generation'. But I always seem to fall back to English, American, Danish, Japanese and German literature.

Currently reading Günter Grass.

@Dostoevsky @GordoDeCentral @Martin @Post Ironic

Light American? A confederacy of dunces

 

[Dostoevsky]

I need some book/genre/country inspiration for the many books I'm gonna read during the summer. Preferably light (vacation style) without being soemthing from Oprahs book club and soem average crime novel.

I enjoy social realism - especially working class-literature, magic realism, historical novels and of course the classics - big fan of the 'Hemingway generation'. But I always seem to fall back to English, American, Danish, Japanese and German literature.

Currently reading Günter Grass.

@Dostoevsky @GordoDeCentral @Martin @Post Ironic

Light? Ok... then I guess

Corto Maltese (comics) (Sous le signe du Capricorne, La ballade de la mer salée)
The Damned Yard
Plenty of books from Pekic and Pavic
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Death of Ivan Ilych
A Hero of Our Time
Without Dogma
Fathers and Sons
The Trial
Short stories by Gogol
Majority of books from Hesse

 

[Dostoevsky]

Ok, not really fair, books from Pekic and Pavic aren't really light.

 

[Maddy]

Light? Ok... then I guess

Corto Maltese (comics) (Sous le signe du Capricorne, La ballade de la mer salée)
The Damned Yard
Plenty of books from Pekic and Pavic
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Death of Ivan Ilych
A Hero of Our Time
Without Dogma
Fathers and Sons
The Trial
Short stories by Gogol
Majority of books from Hesse

Fathers and Sons light? Might only be around 250 pages, but holy moly it's tedious

Thanks anyways, I'll look in to the titles that I don't know

 

[Dostoevsky]

Fathers and Sons light? Might only be around 250 pages, but holy moly it's tedious

Thanks anyways, I'll look in to the titles that I don't know

Hmm. Dunno, I found it light. But amazing at it.

But to be quite frank I find majority of books by Fyodor light-ish, so I wouldn't argue. I didn't want to mention him in the list, tho

PS don't underrate those comics, and give Andric a chance if you haven't already.

 

[Maddy]

Hmm. Dunno, I found it light. But amazing at it.

But to be quite frank I find majority of books by Fyodor light-ish, so I wouldn't argue. I didn't want to mention him in the list, tho

PS don't underrate those comics, and give Andric a chance if you haven't already.

I recently listened to a podcast about Serbia, one of thing they talked a lot about was the strong and lively serbian culture; art, dance, music, literature, I guess Andric is a great place to start.

The comics I'll pass

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Light? Ok... then I guess

Corto Maltese (comics) (Sous le signe du Capricorne, La ballade de la mer salée)
The Damned Yard
Plenty of books from Pekic and Pavic
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Death of Ivan Ilych
A Hero of Our Time
Without Dogma
Fathers and Sons
The Trial
Short stories by Gogol
Majority of books from Hesse

Those are not light in the least great books yes but not light

 

[Dostoevsky]

Those are not light in the least great books yes but not light

They are!

But I don't read shit like Coelho and Danielle Steel.

I recently listened to a podcast about Serbia, one of thing they talked a lot about was the strong and lively serbian culture; art, dance, music, literature, I guess Andric is a great place to start.

The comics I'll pass

Our literature is beyond amazing. Yet quite underground compared to the west, but what our guys wrote is brilliant. Had it been western writters you'd have all their names popping around. But we have tons of them that are pure gold. Andric is just one of them.

 

[Post Ironic]

I need some book/genre/country inspiration for the many books I'm gonna read during the summer. Preferably light (vacation style) without being soemthing from Oprahs book club and soem average crime novel.

I enjoy social realism - especially working class-literature, magic realism, historical novels and of course the classics - big fan of the 'Hemingway generation'. But I always seem to fall back to English, American, Danish, Japanese and German literature.

Currently reading Günter Grass.

@Dostoevsky @GordoDeCentral @Martin @Post Ironic

For contemporary, here's a few.

Check out Olga Tokarczuk from Poland. Primeval and Other Times is a fantastic little novel, and right up in that magical realism playground. Her other books are pretty great too.

Drago Jancar from Slovenia is another good one. The Galley Slave (quite the atmospheric romp through late-medieval Europe) and Northern Lights are brilliant.

Bogdan Suceava's Miruna, A Tale and Coming From an Off-Key Time are entertaining and fairly light literary reads too.

 

[Maddy]

For contemporary, here's a few.

Check out Olga Tokarczuk from Poland. Primeval and Other Times is a fantastic little novel, and right up in that magical realism playground. Her other books are pretty great too.

Drago Jancar from Slovenia is another good one. The Galley Slave (quite the atmospheric romp through late-medieval Europe) and Northern Lights are brilliant.

Bogdan Suceava's Miruna, A Tale and Coming From an Off-Key Time are entertaining and fairly light literary reads too.

Cheers. They look more liek vacation style books than Dule's

I've been recommended Olga before, so I guess I'll give her a shot. I might even read her in Poland Yes @piotrr and @radekas I'm invading your country this summer. Tour De Extermination Camp here I coem.

 

[Post Ironic]

Cheers. They look more liek vacation style books than Dule's

I've been recommended Olga before, so I guess I'll give her a shot. I might even read her in Poland Yes @piotrr and @radekas I'm invading your country this summer. Tour De Extermination Camp here I coem.

Dusan doesn't do light.

Haruki Murakami is my go to for light, guilty pleasure kind of reading.

 

[Maddy]

Dusan doesn't do light.

Haruki Murakami is my go to for light, guilty pleasure kind of reading.

Light has it's place, when I'm on holiday I prefer soemthing I can step in and out off and that doesn't require deep concentration. Besides there's a lot of great light literature.

Murakami is sex. Love that oddness of his books. Actually him I thought of when I wrote Magic Realism. I made the mistake of buying 1q84 as one entire paperback book, it was so hard to handle, that I put it back on my shelf and went down to the library and got book 1, 2 and 3 separately

 

[radekas]

I've been recommended Olga before, so I guess I'll give her a shot. I might even read her in Poland Yes @piotrr and @radekas I'm invading your country this summer. Tour De Extermination Camp here I coem.

Just don't use "Polish Death Camps" or you will rot in one of our not so exclusive prisons.

 

[Maddy]

Just don't use "Polish Death Camps" or you will rot in one of our not so exclusive prisons.

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