Popular European Cultural Books

Find cultural books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (106)

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Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenit︠s︡yn EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Description:
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state.


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Cartea râsului şi a uitării by Milan Kundera RO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
„Această carte este în totalitatea ei un roman în formă de variaţiuni. În succesiunea lor, fiecare capitol constituie o etapă diferită a unei călătorii ce duce în interiorul unei teme, în interiorul unei idei, în interiorul unei situaţii unice, a cărei înţelegere se pierde pentru mine în nemărginire. E un roman despre Tamina şi, din clipa în care Tamina părăseşte scena, devine un roman pentru Tamina.Ea este personajul principal şi principalul ascultător, toate celelalte întâmplări fiind o variaţiune a propriei sale poveşti... continue

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Civilizația română sătească

Civilizația română sătească by Ernest Bernea RO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Satul romanesc de azi, in majoritatea cazurilor, nu mai este o realitate organica echilibrata, ci o realitate intrata intr-un puternic proces de destramare [...]. In lucrarea de fata incercam sa desprindem ceea ce apartine civilizatiei romane satesti, cercetand indeosebi acea categorie de asezari care ne pune mai direct in stapanirea datelor fundamentale ale acestei civilizatii. Nu studiem orice sat romanesc de azi, ci numai pe acela care pastreaza forme arhaice, cu un continut de viata aparte, concreta si ireductibila in conditiile sale locale etnice. Ernest Bernea (1905-1990), sociolog, etno... continue

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Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
A panoramic novel of European history, by an internationally bestselling writer. The whole truth, as the name implies, is the collective knowledge of all those involved. Which is why you can never really piece it together again afterwards. Because some of those who possessed a part of it will already be dead. Or they’re lying, or their memories are bad. It’s 1989, and in a small town on the Austria–Hungary border, nobody talks about the war; the older residents pretend not to remember, and the younger ones are too busy making plans to leave. The walls are thin, the curtains twitch, there is a ... continue

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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these “souls” as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the dev... continue

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Demian by Hermann Hesse DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend.

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Demian by Hermann Hesse ES

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Escrita tras las trágicas experiencias de la Gran Guerra, DEMIAN es una de las obras más emblemáticas de Hermann Hesse (1877-1962). La novela -en la que late la repulsa de la sociedad burguesa y masificada y el llamamiento a los elegidos (los que llevan en su frente el estigma de Caín) para conquistar la autenticidad y emprender la reconstrucción comunitaria de la humanidad- traza, como reza su subtítulo, la historia de la juventud de Emil Sinclair, quien, en ruptura con el mundo claro y seguro de su infancia, va a la busca de su personalidad y su destino, sólo realizables en el mundo oscuro, ... continue


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Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine
Description:
In 1993, tragic turbulence takes over Ukraine in the post-communist spin-off. As if in somnambulism, Soviet war veterans and upstart businessmen listen to an American preacher of whose type there were plenty at the time in the post-Soviet territory. In Kharkiv, the young communist headquarters is now an advertising agency, and a youth radio station brings Western music, with Depeche Mode in the lead, into homes of ordinary people. In the middle of this craze three friends, an anti-Semitic Jew Dogg Pavlov, an unfortunate entrepreneur Vasia the Communist and the narrator Zhadan, nineteen years o... continue