Comments on: German Literature Month

By: Amateur Reader (Tom)

Amateur Reader (Tom) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:03:46 +0000

Unbearably boring, yes, that is my assumption.

By: obooki

obooki — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:45:51 +0000

Well, ok, I’ll give Sudermann a go – but there’s something about him (his name perhaps?) which makes me think he’s going to be boring. – Also, I must read Artzibashev(?)’s Sanine at some point, since I bought a copy a while ago.

By: Amateur Reader (Tom)

Amateur Reader (Tom) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:18:54 +0000

My request – the point of this list is to encourage easily ignorable requests, yes? – is to hear about the Sudermann. He first caught my eye in that wild, weird Powys book you have linked over to the left.

By: obooki

obooki — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:22:11 +0000

It seems ambitious, but since it’s largely novellas perhaps it’s manageable. The Keyserling is a novella called Gay Hearts, from a collection of early c20th German novellas.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:37:44 +0000

Thanks for joining us. That’s an ambitious list. Keyserling in English? Is there a translation of any of his work? I like him very much, think he is similar but better than Fontane.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:23:41 +0000

I finished a Heine poem last week for the poetry part of this week – satirical, but a little too humorous and with not enough bite for my liking…

By: obooki

obooki — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:19:03 +0000

Well, I am weak in German lit too – c19th in particular – so some correction is in order. Anyway, I have to stick there, since the latest German novella I have seems to be Stefan Zweig.

Unlike my usual practice of avoiding the best writers as much as possible, I think I might dive straight in with Heinrich Heine.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:03:49 +0000

By coinicdence, I’ve just posted my first review for the month – on a couple of Stifter’s novellas. I’m hoping to gradually move into the contemporary scene though

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:37:27 +0000

I’d like to read several of these authors “one of these days,” but Gotthelf is probably the only one I’m likely to consider for German Lit Month II. Musil’s prob. going to provide my first selection for the event, but your list reminds me how weak I am in Germ lang lit in general.