Modern Classics

Modern Classics (Selection) 42Results
Minima Moralia
Year of Publication: 1951
Theodor W. AdornoYear of Publication: 1951
Reflections from Damaged Life

»The thorn in your eye is the best magnifying glass.«

Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about...

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Malina
Year of Publication: 1971
Ingeborg BachmannYear of Publication: 1971
Novel

In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is...

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Jacob the Liar
Year of Publication: 2007
Jurek BeckerYear of Publication: 2007
By chance Jacob Heym has learned that the Red Army is only a few hundred kilometers away. And now he has told all the others who are locked into the Ghetto of a Polish city with him and who have lost...
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Risk Society
Year of Publication: 1986
Ulrich BeckYear of Publication: 1986
Towards a New Modernity
This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic.

Underpinning the analysis is the notion of the »risk society«. The changing nature of society's...
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The Third Reich of Dreams
Year of Publication: 2016
Charlotte BeradtYear of Publication: 2016

Charlotte Beradt, who had worked as a journalist in Berlin until, from 1933 onwards, she was no longer employed, fled to England in 1939 and then to New York in 1940. She collected dreams that had...

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Old Masters
Year of Publication: 1985
Thomas BernhardYear of Publication: 1985
A Comedy

Old Masters is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.


For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in...

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The Spirit of Utopia
Year of Publication: 1918
Ernst BlochYear of Publication: 1918

In the summer of 1918 the world is knee-deep in blood: the war has already claimed millions of victims, the Spanish influenza is spreading, in Russia the revolution is turning into a civil war....

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Work on Myth
Year of Publication: 1979
Hans BlumenbergYear of Publication: 1979

In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world. Work on Myth is in five parts. The...

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Wonderful 27 September
Year of Publication: 1980
Thomas BraschYear of Publication: 1980
Poems
Wonderful 27 September was published in 1980, the same year he was awarded the FAZ Prize for Literature. The jury states the following: »In Wonderful 27 September, Thomas Brasch...
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Poems
Year of Publication: 2018
Paul CelanYear of Publication: 2018
New complete and annotated edition

For Paul Celan reading was always an experience as well: the books, journals, and daily newspapers he read were as much a source of his poems as personal encounters and political events. When a...

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Year of Publication: 2006
Günter EichYear of Publication: 2006
The motivations that had led people to commit the atrocities of the Third Reich had by no means perished with its end. Günter Eich tackled this survival with a new visual language, with ciphers, riddles and symbols for the uncanny, inexplicable aspects of human nature. His poems moved further and further in the direction of a witty, laconic pessimism, directed quiet persistence and dry mockery...

Year of Publication: 1978
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerYear of Publication: 1978
A Comedy

A comdey. A comedy? Enzensberger‘s play is an epic poem in thirty-three cantos about the story that is as gripping now as it was back then. The catastophe that happened in 1912 is documented and...

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Year of Publication: 1931
Marieluise FleißerYear of Publication: 1931
A Novel about Smoking, Exercising, Loving and Selling
In the seeming idyll of the German province in the years before 1933, Gustl Amricht, small-town man, cigar shop owner and swimming phenomenon, tries hard to become close to Frieda Geier, eventually...
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Year of Publication: 1957
Max FrischYear of Publication: 1957

Max Frisch‘s Homo faber is one of the most important and most-read books of the 20th century. It tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in a...

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Year of Publication: 1962
Jürgen HabermasYear of Publication: 1962
An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
»The task of the present study is to analyse the ›bourgeois public sphere‹«. In order to do justice to this complex task, Habermas integrates aspects from studies on...
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Year of Publication: 1972
Peter HandkeYear of Publication: 1972
A Life Story

»My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull...

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Year of Publication: 1982
Christoph HeinYear of Publication: 1982
Novella

»I have become invulnerable. I have bathed in dragon’s blood, and no linden leaf anywhere left me unprotected. I can never get out of this skin.« This is the conclusion of the...

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Year of Publication: 1922
Hermann HesseYear of Publication: 1922
An Indian Story

Siddhartha, the world-famous story of a young person’s self-liberation from familial and societal pressures and rules in order to lead an independent life shows that awareness cannot be...

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Year of Publication: 1965
Wolfgang HildesheimerYear of Publication: 1965

Tynset, a small community in Norway, is the magical focal point of the excessive monologue in which the protagonist unfurls the inventory of his life and his consciousness during one long,...

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Year of Publication: 1981
Ludwig HohlYear of Publication: 1981
or On Non-premature Reconciliation

The Notes – the work of a »Montaigne of our time« – were written between 1934 and 1936, three years during which Hohl lived in the Netherlands in »greatest spiritual solitude«....

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Year of Publication: 1972
Peter HuchelYear of Publication: 1972
Poems
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Year of Publication: 1983
Uwe JohnsonYear of Publication: 1983
From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
Over the course of one year, Gesine Cresspahl narrates her family's history to her ten-year-old daughter. Day by day, she reveals more about life in Mecklenburg during the years of the Weimar...
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Year of Publication: 1948
Anna Maria JoklYear of Publication: 1948
A Children's Novel for Almost Everyone
A bottle of homemade mother-of-pearl paint has gone missing from the backpack of »Mole«, one of the most popular students in his class. It doesn’t take long for the first accusations to fly, and soon...
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Year of Publication: 1979
Hans JonasYear of Publication: 1979
In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age
Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the...
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Year of Publication: 1990
André KaminskiYear of Publication: 1990
Novel
In this vibrant and witty family saga, André Kaminski chronicles the fortunes and misadventures of two Jewish families as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is crumbling, World War I is brewing, and...
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Year of Publication: 1973
Marie Luise KaschnitzYear of Publication: 1973
Notes
The astonishing thing about this book is how time, the world and history are caught up from such a personal, almost intimate approach, how the cosmos of the centuries fans out completely effortlessly...
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Year of Publication: 2020
Thomas KlingYear of Publication: 2020

As the images of the devastating attack on the World Trade Center in New York were flickering across the TV screens on September 11, 2001, Thomas Kling began drafting a laconic lament as a live...

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Year of Publication: 2008
Alexander KlugeYear of Publication: 2008
With numerous images

Alexander Kluge’s account The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945 first appeared in 1977. Exactly twenty years later, it became one of the most important points of reference...

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Year of Publication: 1951
Wolfgang KoeppenYear of Publication: 1951
Novel

»Koeppen's work consists, as does that of all writers, of books of varied degrees of importance. I myself appreciate the early novel A Sad Affair, Death In Rome and the fragment...

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Year of Publication: 1988
Reinhart KoselleckYear of Publication: 1988
On the Semantics of Historical Time

Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life – intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating...

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Year of Publication: 1930
Siegfried KracauerYear of Publication: 1930
Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany
»Reality is so battered to such an extent that it is forced to show its colours.« Walter Benjamin

Kracauer‘s The Salaried Masses is a classic of...
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Year of Publication: 1982
Niklas LuhmannYear of Publication: 1982
The Codification of Intimacy

He argues that, while family systems remained intact in the transition from traditional to modern societies, a semantics for love developed to accommodate extra-marital relationships; this...

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Year of Publication: 1997
Alice MillerYear of Publication: 1997
The Search for the True Self
Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer – and has helped them to apply...
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Year of Publication: 1959
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1959

This extraordinary novel shows why Hans Erich Nossack's work is sometimes compared to figures like Kafka, Hesse, Camus, and Sartre. The Impossible Proof is a novel in the form of a...

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Year of Publication: 1984
Meret OppenheimYear of Publication: 1984
Collected Poems
From her surrealist beginnings in Paris with André Breton, Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim developed into a completely independent, incomparable artist who has enjoyed lasting...
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Year of Publication: 1973
Ulrich PlenzdorfYear of Publication: 1973
Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius – and dead – tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist...
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Year of Publication: 2010
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2010
Volume I: Poems 1940-1950

Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight and...

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Year of Publication: 1998
Hans-Ulrich TreichelYear of Publication: 1998
»Not since The Reader has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in postwar Germany. In this debut novel of astonishing originality, we bear witness to a...
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USA (Pantheon), Denmark (Lindhardt & Ringhof), Lithuania (Sofoklis), Slovenia (Družina), Iran (Shegarf Publishing House)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: UK (Picador), Spanish world rights (Galaxia Gutenberg), Catalan rights (Enciclopedia Catalana), Chinese complex rights (Eurasian Publ. Group), Russia (AST), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Companhia das Letras), France (Hachette), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Ambo|Anthos), Sweden (Wahlström & Widstrand), Norway (Pax), Finland (Söderström), Iceland (Mal og menning), Korea (Chaeksesang), Thailand (schau-Thai), Poland (Czytelnik), Slovakia (Slovart), Hungary (Europa), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Croatia (Croatian Philological Ass.), Turkey (Ayrinti), Greece (Periplous), Albania (K&B), Ukraine (Tandem), Israel (Achuzat Bayit)


Year of Publication: 1908
Robert WalserYear of Publication: 1908

Not too long ago an insider tip, Robert Walser is now read right around the world, and his work has been translated into more than 50 languages

Robert Walser is an...

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English world rights (New Directions), Spanish world rights (Siruela, Paperback Sublicense: Debolsillo, Latin American Sublicense: El Hilo de Ariadna), Catalan rights (Ed. 1984), Portuguese rights (Relogio d’Agua), France (Gallimard; French paperback sublicence: Éditions Zoë), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Koppernik), Sweden (Modernista), Norway (Bokvennen), Finland (Teos), Japan (Choeisha), Poland (PIW), Czech Republic (Opus), Hungary (Scolar), Bulgaria (Nike Publishing), Estonia (Perioodika), Lithuania (Pradai), Slovenia (Mihelač), Turkey (Can), Albania (Asdreni), Georgia (Ibis), Azerbaijan (Alatoran)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Brazilian Portuguese rights (Siciliano de Livros)

Year of Publication: 1981
Peter WeissYear of Publication: 1981
Novel

The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade....

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English world rights (Duke UP), Spanish world rights (Fondo de Cultura Económica), Chinese simplex rights (Henan UP), France (Klincksieck), Sweden (Bonniers), Korea (Moonji), Slovak Republic (slovart), Serbia (Kontrast), Turkey (Iletisim)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Netherlands (Historische Uitgeverij), Denmark (Rosinante), Norway (Pax)

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