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Kerstans Kanon - Sprache & Kommunikation

Kerstans Kanon is an attempt to create a common collection of knowledge that may be considered "cultural canon". This collection is limited by a very germano-centric perspective, however, others may find this collection interesting nonetheless or specifically therefore.

Kerstan divides his canon into three literary categories:
- History and Philosophy (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-philosophie-geschichte)
- Language and Communication (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-sprache-kommunikation)
- History and Philosophy (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-mathematik-naturwissenschaft)

Beneath the article where this canon was published, a lively discussion developed, where many more works were suggested to be added. I have collected many here: https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-leserempfehlungen

The original article (in german) can be found here:
https://fd.phwa.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Kerstan-Kanon.pdf

As published in Zeit:
https://www.zeit.de/2018/34/allgemeinwissen-kanon-globalisierung-digitalisierung-jugend-bildung

Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
1984
1984
  • George Orwell
4.215,183 reads
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
  • Thomas Mann
4.0527 reads
Cover 5

Das Lied von der Glocke

Das Lied von der Glocke
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Charles Bilton
00 reads
Der zerbrochne Krug
Der zerbrochne Krug
  • Heinrich von Kleist
2.676 reads
Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.
Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.
  • Ulrich Plenzdorf
47 reads
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß
  • Robert Musil
32 reads
Emil und die Detektive
Emil und die Detektive
  • Erich Kästner
3.58 reads
Faust
Faust
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • George Madison Priest (Translator)
3.8196 reads
Hamlet
Hamlet
  • William Shakespeare
  • Millôr Fernandes (Translator)
4.031,165 reads
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel
  • Jacob Grimm
  • Wilhelm Grimm
3.812 reads
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • J. K. Rowling
4.286,471 reads
Ilias und Odyssee
Ilias und Odyssee
  • Walter Jens
00 reads
Leben des Galilei
Leben des Galilei
  • Bertolt Brecht
3.339 reads
Mutterzunge
Mutterzunge
  • Emine Sevgi Özdamar
00 reads
Nathan the Wise
Nathan the Wise
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • Ronald Schechter
2.5824 reads
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Gabriel García Márquez
4.091,014 reads
The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus
  • Art Spiegelman
4.64551 reads
The Iliad
The Iliad
  • Homer
  • Alexander Pope (Translator)
3.91136 reads
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose
  • Umberto Eco
  • William Weaver (Translator)
4.02485 reads
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
  • Homer
  • Robert Fagles (Translator)
3.81,156 reads
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
  • Ernest Hemingway
3.681,375 reads
The Plague
The Plague
  • Albert Camus
  • Robin Buss (Translator)
3.96407 reads
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum
  • Günter Grass
  • Breon Mitchell (Translator)
4.0239 reads
The Trial
The Trial
  • Franz Kafka
  • Willa Muir (Translator)
  • Edwin Muir (Translator)
3.92550 reads
Ulysses
Ulysses
  • James Joyce
3.83224 reads
Wer ist wir?
Wer ist wir?
  • Navid Kermani
00 reads
Winnie The Pooh: The House At Pooh Corner
Winnie The Pooh: The House At Pooh Corner
  • A.A. Milne
4.3643 reads