Topic
European Literature
4 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Best French Literature: Essential Novels from France
The best French literature — from Madame Bovary and Germinal to The Stranger and Swann's Way. Essential novels and the canonical reading list for French fiction.
Best Italian Literature: Essential Novels from Italy
The best Italian literature — from My Brilliant Friend and The Name of the Rose to Germinal. Essential Italian novels and the canonical reading list for Italian fiction.
Best Spanish Literature: Essential Novels from Spain
The best Spanish literature — from Don Quixote and The Shadow of the Wind to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Essential novels from Spain and the Spanish-speaking world.
Books Like The Tin Drum: Dark Modernism, WWII, and the Grotesque Witness
Grass's Oskar Matzerath — who stops growing at three and watches the twentieth century from below adult eye level — is one of fiction's great unreliable witnesses. These books share its dark humor, its European modernist ambition, and its determination to make historical atrocity visible through strange and distorted forms.
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