Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century
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The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars show more of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century.[1]
The group brought together 33 experts from each of the three categories.[2] Each was allowed to name three books as having been the most important of the century. Cited by the group were five titles by both Franz Kafka and Arno Schmidt, four by Robert Walser, and three by Thomas Mann, Hermann Broch, Anna Seghers and Joseph Roth.[1] show less
Work | Order Label |
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The Man Without Qualities (1930) by Robert Musil | 1 |
The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka | 2 |
The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann | 3 |
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) by Alfred Döblin | 4 |
The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass | 5 |
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (2018) by Uwe Johnson | 6 |
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1924) by Thomas Mann | 7 |
The Radetzky March (1932) by Joseph Roth | 8 |
The Castle (1925) by Franz Kafka | 9 |
Doctor Faustus (1947) by Thomas Mann | 10 |
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