ZEIT Literaturkanon

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70 Works 334,830 Books 5,567 Reviews ½ 4.0
Canon of European post-war novels published by the weekly German newspaper DIE ZEIT in 2012.
http://www.zeit.de/serie/literaturkan...
Years:
All, 2000-today (8), [2000] (2), 1990-1999 (10), 1980-1989 (10), 1970-1979 (10), 1960-1969 (10), 1950-1959 (10), 1945-1949 (10)
WorkYear
The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
2000-today
Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy
2000-today
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
[2000]
Paris Nocturne by Patrick Modiano
2000-today
Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
2000-today
Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye
2000-today
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
2000-today
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2000-today
The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country by Uwe Tellkamp
[2000]
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
2000-today
Melancholy by Jon Fosse
1990-1999
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
1990-1999
Die Kinder der Toten by Elfriede Jelinek
1990-1999
Original Bliss: Stories by A. L. Kennedy
1990-1999
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
1990-1999
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller
1990-1999
The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
1990-1999
All Souls' Day by Cees Nooteboom
1990-1999
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
1990-1999
Dukla by Andrzej Stasiuk
1990-1999
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
1980-1989
The War: A Memoir by Marguerite Duras
1980-1989
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
1980-1989
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnson
1980-1989
The Notebook by Ágota Kristóf
1980-1989
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
1980-1989
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
1980-1989
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1980-1989
The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tišma
1980-1989
Cassandra by Christa Wolf
1980-1989
The Land at the End of the World: A Novel by António Lobo Antunes
1970-1979
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
1970-1979
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
1970-1979
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
1970-1979
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
1970-1979
Fatelessness by Imre Kertész
1970-1979
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kiš
1970-1979
History by Elsa Morante
1970-1979
Communism in Spain in the Franco Era: The Autobiography of Federico Sanchez by Jorge Semprún
1970-1979
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1970-1979
The Clown by Heinrich Böll
1960-1969
Gantenbein by Max Frisch
1960-1969
The experience of pain by Carlo Emilio Gadda
1960-1969
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
1960-1969
Each Man in His Darkness by Julien Green
1960-1969
De romantici by Nâzim Hikmet
1960-1969
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
1960-1969
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1960-1969
The Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
1960-1969
The Flanders Road by Claude Simon
1960-1969
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
1950-1959
The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
1950-1959
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
1950-1959
A Change of Heart by Michel Butor
1950-1959
The Demons by Heimito von Doderer
1950-1959
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1950-1959
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
1950-1959
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
1950-1959
A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945-51 by George A. Seferis
1950-1959
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
1950-1959
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
1945-1949
The Plague by Albert Camus
1945-1949
On Overgrown Paths by Knut Hamsun
1945-1949
Strahlungen by Ernst Jünger
1945-1949
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
1945-1949
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
1945-1949
The Skin by Curzio Malaparte
1945-1949
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend by Thomas Mann
1945-1949
1984 by George Orwell
1945-1949
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
1945-1949

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