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Ask HN: What are some great books that are relatively unknown in the US?
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#2The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. Set in pre WWI Vienna. It’s a three volume unfinished novel full of brilliant writing, much of which should appeal to the crowd here.
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#3Confession by Leo Tolstoy. (About the meaning of life :)
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/confessions-tolst...
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#4The Master and Margarita.
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#5"Epitaph Of A Small Winner" and "Dom Casmurro" by Machado de Assis. He's written a great many other books besides those, but they're the best of the bunch. In Brazil he's a national hero, but while much of his work is available in English it's astoundingly under-appreciated.
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#6Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell is a novel that was required reading in Canada for generations, but it is almost completely unknown in the United States. I don't know if it is a "great" book (I have not read it myself), but many Canadians consider it a classic of Canadian literature.
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#7https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tartar_Steppe
Also, on the technical side (sorry I couldn't resist), CTM https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html is really underrated.
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#81984
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#9The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil. Set in pre WWI Vienna. It’s a three volume unfinished novel full of brilliant writing, much of which should appeal to the crowd here.
And Heimito von Doderer.
His stories, novellas. The Last Adventure.
But, as introduction or a summary of a Fin de siecle Vienna that was a progenitor of XXth century and "proving ground for the destruction of the world", start with Allan Janik, Wittgenstein: Vienna Revisited. Wonderfully succint and comprehensive overview.
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#10https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tartar_Steppe Also, on the technical side (sorry I couldn't resist), CTM https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html is really underrated.
Il deserto dei tartari is one of my favorites!