19 Best fiction books like Ein Kind by Thomas Bernhard

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Ein Kind

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.97

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Die Schande einer unehelichen Geburt, die Alltagssorgen der Mutter und ihr ständiger Vorwurf: Du ha…

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Cover of Vertigo by Michael Hulse, W.G. Sebald

1. Vertigo

By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.00

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amaz… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!"

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

"How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all."

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

"É um vazio todo peculiar que surge quando, numa cidade estranha, a pessoa disca números de telefone em vão. Quando ninguém atende, é uma decepção de alcance transcendente, como se esses números aleat…"

-Michael Hulse, Vertigo

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2. Les Choses

By: Georges Perec

3.80

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

L.F: " Les choses " ? C'est un titre qui intrigue, qui alimente les malentendus. Plutôt qu'un livre… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein : une vie sans rien."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

"A trente ans, l'on se doit d'être arrivé, ou bien l'on n'est rien. Et nul n'est arrivé s'il n'a trouvé sa place, s'il n'a creusé son trou, s'il n'a ses clés, son bureau, sa petite plaque."

-Georges Perec, Les Choses

Cover of Así empieza lo malo by Javier Marías

3. Así empieza lo malo

By: Javier Marías

4.00

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Así empieza lo malo cuenta la historia íntima de un matrimonio de muchos años, narrada por su joven… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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4. La lucina

By: Antonio Moresco

3.65

Format: 167 pages, ebook

Lontano da tutto, tra i boschi, in un vecchio borgo abbandonato e deserto, un uomo vive in totale s… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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5. Professor Andersens natt

By: Dag Solstad

3.38

Format: 140 pages, Unknown Binding

An existential murder story. A master of Norwegian literature critiques contemporary society with w… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"„В сравнение с Пер Екерберг професор Андершен се чувстваше като старомоден мъж в петдесетте си години. Държеше на възгледите си, без всъщност да ги харесва, и ако можеше, с удоволствие би ги заменил …"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

"„Съмнявам се, ужасно много се съмнявам в собствената си функция в това време, което вече не понасям. Зъбът на времето, той ме гризе и съсипва всичко. Зъбът на времето гризе и най-върховите интелектуа…"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

"He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. - but thought solely that it enlightened …"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

"Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we say when we say it is a matter of the greatest significance. Because …"

-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt

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6. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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  • german literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • literature
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7. Woes of the True Policeman

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policemanis Rob… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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8. Tonio Kröger

By: Thomas Mann , J. White

3.73

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A title in the Bristol Classical Press German Texts series, in German with English notes, vocabular… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
"A felicidade é amar e talvez colher pequenas aproximações ilusórias da pessoa amada."

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"Vuole credere lei che sarei orgoglioso e felice di possedere un amico tra gli uomini? Ma fino ad ora ho avuto amici solo tra demoni, farfarelli, mostri oscuri e fantasmi afasiaci, vale a dire: tra le…"

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

"ბედნიერება იმაში კი არ არის, რომ უყვარდეთ; ეს გაძლევს მხოლოდ კმაყოფილების გრძნობას. იყო ბედნიერი - ნიშნავს გიყვარდეს, დაიჭირო წარმავალი, შესაძლოა მაცდური წამიერი გაელვებები, შენი სიყვარულის ობიექტის …"

-Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

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9. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
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10. Lieutenant Gustl

By: Arthur Schnitzler

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the centur… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century

11. Narratori delle pianure

By: Gianni Celati

3.77

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

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  • literature
  • fiction
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12. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

By: Peter Handke , Jeffrey Eugenides , Ralph Manheim

3.56

Format: None pages,

Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the … read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature

13. The Confusions of Young Törless

By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more

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14. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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15. Mario and the Magician

By: Thomas Mann

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a c… read more

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16. Distant Star

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Staris Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pil… read more

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17. Extinction

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction… read more

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18. Under the Volcano

By: Malcolm Lowry

3.77

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"

-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

19. Amulet

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more

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20. The Broom of the System

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the Systemstunned critics and m… read more

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21. Winter Journal

By: Paul Auster

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, a moving and highly personal… read more

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22. The Palace of Dreams

By: Ismail Kadare

4.00

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, … read more

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23. Strait is the Gate

By: André Gide

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in th… read more

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24. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

Cover of Om udregning af rumfang II by Solvej Balle

25. Om udregning af rumfang II

By: Solvej Balle

3.96

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang II'' er anden del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele. Tara Selter er ef… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Om udregning af rumfang III by Solvej Balle

26. Om udregning af rumfang III

By: Solvej Balle

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang III'' er tredje del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i ge… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Das späte Leben by Bernhard Schlink

27. Das späte Leben

By: Bernhard Schlink

3.77

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

Martin, sechsundsiebzig, wird von einer ärztlichen Diagnose Ihm bleiben nur noch wenige Monate. Se… read more

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  • german literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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28. Fractured Soul

By: Akira Mizubayashi

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"« C’est un livre magnifique. En pleine période de folie fasciste et d’engouement militariste et ultranationaliste, Yoshino a eu l’audace d’écrire, à l’intention des jeunes Japonais, un livre qui prôn…"

-Akira Mizubayashi, Fractured Soul

Cover of Bechamel Mucho by Dimitri Verhulst

29. Bechamel Mucho

By: Dimitri Verhulst

3.44

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

In dit ultieme zomerboek volgen we Alex, entertainer bij een clubhotel op Mallorca. Wie zijn we als… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ein Kind by Thomas Bernhard

30. Ein Kind

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.97

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Die Schande einer unehelichen Geburt, die Alltagssorgen der Mutter und ihr ständiger Vorwurf: Du ha… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • school
  • literature
  • read for school
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Yanımda Kal by Eylem Ata Güleç

31. Yanımda Kal

By: Eylem Ata Güleç

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Yürüyüşe çıkmış gibi değil de belli bir yere ulaşmaya çalışır gibi hızla yürüdüğümü fark ediyorum. … read more

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15 Best novels books like Ein Kind by Thomas Bernhard

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Vertigo

Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.00

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Les Choses

Georges Perec

3.80

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Así empieza lo malo

Javier Marías

4.00

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La lucina

Antonio Moresco

3.65

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24 Top fiction books like Das späte Leben by Bernhard Schlink

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Endling

Jasmin Schreiber

3.76

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Mareike Fallwickl

4.29

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Windstärke 17

Caroline Wahl

4.49

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Melody

Martin Suter

4.09

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