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Originally Posted by Billi
As I have nothing against reading some classics I'm thinking that one of the best possible choices has won. I am really looking forward which books will be proposed. My only caveat is that the nature of this book club excludes many of the interesting German books. Well, that's just an opinion too.  |
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Originally Posted by desertblues
Thank you Billi, for reminding me of German literature. This made me think of the excellent Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt who wrote the classical philosophical 'krimi' Der Richter und sein Henker (The judge and his hangman).  (I found this while living in Switzerland.)
That would be a book both the literary bookclub and MR-bookclub would enjoy, I'm almost sure of it. It is one of my favorite German-writing autors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Judge_and_His_Hangman |
This is just a thought, but if there's sufficient interest among those who would like to read and discuss books by German writers
in the original language, perhaps someone might want to approach some of the Greenies in the Deutsches Forum about starting a Deutsch Book Club. In the meantime, the MobileRead Book Club, of course, welcomes English translations of German authors anytime.
And if
Philosophy wins the
November slot, there's a wealth of writings by German writers that would make excellent choices for that category.