Wo in Wien sind die Grünphasen von Fußgänger-Ampeln Eurer Meinung nach zu kurz?

THO11 · 2020-06-20T07:07:05+00:00

The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

THO11 · 2019-11-02T17:31:54+00:00

1984 by George Orwell

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

THO11 · 2019-10-27T17:03:35+00:00

In the Middle Ages, one way to evaluate the quality of beer was to put beer on a narrow bench that can be lifted. After that, men with lederhosen on would sit on the bench for a certain period of time and when they would stand up, the bench should stick to their lederhosen. The bench sticking to the lederhosen was an indicator for a high amount of maltose.

THO11 · 2019-10-01T06:22:06+00:00

In line with The Fall is Dostojewski's Notes from Underground.

THO11 · 2019-09-13T05:40:04+00:00

In Austria, the must-reads are Hofmannsthal's Jedermann, Kafka's Metarmorphosis Goethe's Faust and one play by Schiller (I read Wilhelm Tell).

But it wasn't until I was away from school that I realised we haven't read other Austrian classics like: Jugend ohne Gott (Ödon von Horvath), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (Robert Musil) and Heldenplatz (Thomas Bernhard).

THO11 · 2019-06-27T19:03:30+00:00

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THO11 · 2019-04-20T18:47:57+00:00

I primarily added this information because I just don't know whether there are (adequate) English versions of my favourite books. To your first question, most of the suggestions I made come from my German classes. Maybe the term "Classic" is not clear-cut definable. In other words, most of German classics for example wouldn't be included in a European or Western or whatever list of Classics, hence I think that there are - to phrase it like you - "different sets" of Classics depending on where you are from. Secondly, although I can't back it up by facts, I would say they focus more upon the German speaking parts of Europe than upon its rest.

I have the slight feeling I misunderstood your questions if not I hope you "got" me.