#the berlin novels

[thequietabsolute]

gf’s copy of Isherwood

#christopher isherwood #the berlin novels #literature #w h auden #personal notes #n.

[marillian-flowers]

Auf Christopher Isherwoods Spuren in Berlin!

Die Tour von Brendan Nash war wirklich perfekt! Jetzt bin ich prima auf Cabaret vorbereitet. Bleibt nur noch: Isherwoods Berlin novels lesen, dann wär es noch besser.

Na ja, eingedeckt mit Lesestoff habe ich mich schon mal. 😄😄

#berlin #christopher isherwood #goodbye berlin #mr. norris changes trains #the berlin novels #cabaret #metropol #brendan nash #travel #books #diary #personal

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#berlin #jason lutes #drawn and quarterly #historical #nonfiction #non fiction #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[balu8]

Babylon Berlin by Volker Kutscher

adaptation by Arne Jysch

Titan Comics

#titan comics #babylon berlin #arne jysch #volker kutcher #Hard Case Crime graphic novel #Weimar Republic

[crownedstoat]

Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin

#1930's #Berlin #Novel #christopher isherwood #Goodbye to Berlin #Weimar Republic #Caberet

[outstanding-quotes]

And anyone who still wants to ask if there’s such a thing as justice in the world, the bad news is: for the moment, no, at least not this week.

Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz

#alfred döblin #berlin alexanderplatz #neue sachlichkeit #modernism #german literature #quote #literature #prose #fiction #novel #justice #systems of oppression #government #society

[allweknewisdead]

Buddenbrooks (1901) - Thomas Mann

Das Werk der Weckuhr schnappte ein und rasselte pflichttreu und grausam. Es war ein heiseres und geborstenes Geräusch, ein Klappern mehr als ein Klingeln, denn sie war altgedient und abgenutzt; aber es dauerte lange, hoffnungslos lange, denn sie war gründlich aufgezogen.

Hanno Buddenbrook erschrak zuinnerst. Wie jeden Morgen zogen sich bei dem jähen Einsetzen dieses zugleich boshaften und treuherzigen Lärmes, auf dem Nachttische, dicht neben seinem Ohre, vor Grimm, Klage und Verzweiflung seine Eingeweide zusammen.

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The alarm-clock went off with cruel alacrity. It was a hoarse rattling and clattering that it made, rather than a ringing, for it was old and worn out; but it kept on for a painfully long time, for it had been thoroughly wound up.

Hanno Buddenbrook was startled to his inmost depths. It was like this every morning. His very entrails rebelled, in rage, protest, and despair, at the onslaught of this at once cruel and faithful monitor standing on the bedside table close to his ear.

#buddenbrooks #thomas mann #book #quote #reading #reading location pic #Ketori Coffee #novel #german literature #read in berlin #read in january 2024 #cover art #literature #morning despair #i know it so well

[nastynas1991]

Berlin by Jason Lutes (2018)

#berlin #jason lutes #graphic novel #comic

[synthient]

Book I just finished strikes perhaps the strangest compromise I've seen yet between speculative fiction should imagine worlds without real world opression vs speculative fiction shouldn't shy away from real world oppression, which is "what if sexism and homophobia were invented for the first time in the 1920s by the fantasy nazis"

#the book is amberlough #and the setting is a very on the nose analog of weimar berlin #but also there seems to be greater gender equality than our modern world in a lot of ways & everyone is assumed bi by default #but also the fantasy nazis have a Return To Traditional Gender/Sexual Roles platform #despite? not seeming to have any actual traditions to return to? #'women should stay in the home' & 'the homosexuals (which this setting doesnt have a term for) should stop living in sin' #seem to be fully novel concepts in this world?

[joshb246]

#Evil #horror novel #indie author #Joshua Berlin author #Joshua Berlin #Amazon #booktopia #bookstagram #books and reading #slasher community #horror fans #scary stories #spooky #creepy

[comicsideblog]

“I desperately want to believe that things can be otherwise.”

Berlin, by Jason Lutes

#berlin comic #jason lutes #Berlin #berlin graphic novel #change #need a change #everything sucks

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A PAINTING THAT'S HAUNTED ME EVER SINCE I PICKED UP A VINTAGE "DRACULA" PAPERBACK.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the 1824 oil on canvas/landscape painting titled "Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon" (German: "Mann und Frau in Betrachtung des Mondes") by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.

PIC #3: Spotlight on a 1981 Bantam Books/Bantam Classics publication of "Dracula" (1897), written by Bram Stoker. Cover art by Caspar David Friedrich.

NOVEL OVERVIEW: "One of the most popular stories ever told, Dracula has been recreated for the stage and screen hundreds of times yet it is essentially a Victorian saga, an awesome tale of a thrillingly bloodthirsty vampire whose nocturnal atrocities reflect the dark underside of a supremely moralistic age."

-- BIBLIO (online book shop)

Sources: https://biblio.com.au/book/dracula-bram-stoker/d/1361720236, X (formerly Twitter), & Wikimedia.

#Caspar David Friedrich #Oil paintings #Landscape paintings #Landscape Art #Gothic horror #Dracula Novel #Dracula #Bantam Classics #Vintage paperbacks #Paperbacks #Paintings #German Artist #German Art #National galerie Berlin #National galerie #Horror #Bantam Books #Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon #Dracula 1897 #Caspar David Friedrich Art #1824 #1897 #Oil painting #German

[hairtusk]

started reading malina by ingeborg bachmann but the prose is a bit too mechanical to be suited to me right now, so i've decided my next read is going to be the berlin novels by christoper isherwood

#I've read goodbye to berlin before when i was about 17 but i devoured it in a single all-nighter #but mr. norris changes trains will be a first time read #then maybe i'll read the other isherwood novel i have

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

The biggest workout you can do is going to a bookstore, grocery shopping, and into a popular cafe on a rainy Saturday afternoon. No day at the gym, no Marathon could possibly make you feel more exhausted than that

#i did. however get amongst other things — Kate beatons graphic novel + the new Spirou #new nail polish colours and hairbands #stuff for kimbap and other Korean food #and a slice of the best matcha cheesecake I’ve ever had in my life #(if you’re ever in Berlin — go to Mamecha. a Japanese green tea cafe. all their cakes are beyond belief.)

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Read in 2022 (8/?)

The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson

❝ In this magical place, with this magical girl, all that I ever wished for sings, right in this very room, right in my very heart, wrapped in your butterfly wings. ❞

#read in 2022 #the most dazzling girl in berlin #kip wilson #litedit #yalitedit #young adult literature #historical fiction #wlw literature #lgbt literature #lgbt books #queer books #sapphic books #book aesthetic #novels in verse #1930s #mystuff #my edit #books2022

[outstanding-quotes]

‘Even though you’re suffering so much, and suffering so much by your thoughts, you still don’t want to lose them?’

Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz

#alfred döblin #berlin alexanderplatz #neue sachlichkeit #modernism #german literature #quote #literature #prose #fiction #novel #suffering #thought #awareness #consciousness #ego