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Old 12-Jun-2009, 21:55
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Default Re: Your 50 favourite books

In no particular order, and with the strong feeling I forgot something important:

The Gift / Nabokov
& all other Russian works
Dubliners / Joyce
Amerika / Kafka
& everything else

Derwish and Death / Selimovic
The Death of Empedokles / Hölderlin
& everything else
Antigone / Sophokles
Michael Kohlhaas / Kleist

& many other stuff
The Black Mill /Brezan
& many other stuff
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich / Kis
Indian Summer / Stifter

& many other stuff
Eugen Onegin / Pushkin
Sonnetts / Michelangelo
Leila and Madshnun / Nizami
The Robber / Walser

& everything else
The Robbers/ Schiller
Life is a Dream / Calderon
& some other plays
Memoirs of Hadrian / Yourcenar

The Clouds / Aristophanes
Poetry / Gryphius
The Yawning Heights/ Zinovyev
The Physicists / Dürrenmatt
& much more

Adventures of Kornel Esti / Kosztolanyi
Leonce and Lena / Büchner
Paradise Lost / Milton
Poetry / Yesenin
Iphigenia in Tauris / Goethe

and the Faust
and the Divan
Ilias / Homeros
Oblomov / Gontcharov
and the Precipice

Paradiso / Lezama Lima
Satyricon / Petronius
Fairy Tales / Brothers Grimm
Dshamilja / Aitmatov
Poetry / Sappho
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