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Mexico, Pedro Paramo.
Colombia, Hundred years of solitude.
Chile, The house of the spirits.
Spain, Don Quixote.
Russia, War and Peace.
Italian, The divine comedy.
Israel, The bible.
Canada -- The Life of Pi
Sweden -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Czech Republic --Metamorphosis
Portugal -- Lusiadas
India -- Kama Sutra
Iran -- Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam
Switzerland -- William Tell
Norway -- Kristin Lavransdatter
Ireland -- Ulysses
Chile -- House of the Spirits
Germany -- Faust
Nigeria -- Things Fall Apart
Trinidad -- A Bend in the River
Sri Lanka -- The English Patient
Kenya -- Out of Africa
Depending on the definition of Austrian literature it may be one of the following:
- Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung)
- Stefan Zweig: Chess Story/The Royal Game (Schachnovelle)
- Joseph Roth: Radetzky March (Radetzkymarsch)
- Arthur Schnitzler: Dream Story (Traumnovelle)
- Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher (Die Klavierspielerin)
- Thomas Bernhard: Woodcutters (Holzfällen)
Depending on the definition of Austrian literature it may be one of the following:
- Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung)
- Stefan Zweig: Chess Story/The Royal Game (Schachnovelle)
- Joseph Roth: Radetzky March (Radetzkymarsch)
- Arthur Schnitzler: Dream Story (Traumnovelle)
- Elfriede Jelinek: The Piano Teacher (Die Klavierspielerin)
- Thomas Bernhard: Woodcutters (Holzfällen)
Stefan Zweig was Austrian?
I didn't know that.
( But... I'd still say Kafka would be the most famous from this list.)
( But... I'd still say Kafka would be the most famous from this list.)
Most certainly, I just thought it would be a matter of minutes that someone shows up and says that he was born in Prague
So I also put some authors on the list that publicized in Austria-proper (Zweig, Schnitzler), during the 1st Republic (Roth) and more contemporary authors (Jelinek, Bernhard).
Nowadays thanks to the films, the Lord of the Rings seems to be more famous as a book (or trilogy of books depending on which version you buy) from England than A Tale of Two Cities even though there have been many more sales of Charles Dickens' masterpiece.
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