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Students read a German novel.
"Doctor Faustus" is arguably the -- certainly a -- great German novel.
"An interesting German novel is much rarer than an interesting English-language novel," he says.
Gradiva is loosely adapted from the 1903 German novel of the same name by Wilhelm Jensen.
In commercial terms, it's the most successful German novel since Patrick Süskind's Perfume.
The latter is, with J.W. von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, the most mature 18th-century German novel of contemporary life.
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They do not follow German novels or French films.
It is widely acknowledged as one of the most famous German novels of all time.
His meticulously researched book Ekkehard, set at the 10th-century monastery of St. Gall, was one of the most popular German novels of the century.
He became friends with the warden, the poet Edwin Muir, who with his wife Willa was at that time the foremost translator of German novels by Broch, Musil and Kafka.
This was a time when Jewish characters in German novels took on a saintly air and anti-Semitic remarks (in public) were treated as a kind of blasphemy.
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