Books Level 4
Procedures
- Action Different rhythms of action: descriptions, reflections, dialogues, monologues.
- Chronology Several timelines, non-chronological storyline.
- Storyline(s) Several storylines, not explicitly interconnected.
- Perspective Several perspectives are acceptable if they are not too experimental.
- Meaning Texts with a certain degree of ambiguity and with different reading keys, themes related to philosophical and religious issues, even allegoric narrative. Some space left for reflection.
Style
- Vocabulary The vocabulary is nuanced and may contain some words that are unknown to the reader. Slightly extended lexicon.
- Sentence construction The syntax is neither banal nor too complex and too experimental. The sentences may be long but clearly structured.
- Stylistic Stylistic diversity and richness, imagery, irony, allusions etc. rather transparent. Some ambiguity.
Characters
- Character The book allows the reader to keep a distance from the characters. On the whole the characters can be more ambivalent and diverse, less apt for identification.
- Number A number of characters can be dealt with, if their relationships are clearly defined.
- Relations There may be ambiguous relationships, surprising evolutions in characters dynamics.
Book list Level 4
Author | Title | Year | Book Scan | Translations |
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Hoffmann, E.T.A. | The Sandman | 1817 | Translations | |
Petrescu, Camil | The last night of Love, the first night of War | 1930 | Translations | |
Capek, Karel | War with the Newts | 1937 | Translations | |
Trumbo, Dalton | Johnny Got His Gun | 1939 | ||
Preda, Marin | The Moromets | 1955 | Translations | |
Hermans, W.F. | The Darkroom of Damokles | 1958 | Translations | |
Clarke, Arthur C. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | ||
Mulisch, Harry | The Assault | 1982 | Translations | |
Adameşteanu, Gabriela | Wasted Morning | 1983 | Translations | |
Hoeg, Peter | Smilla's Sense of Snow | 1992 | Translations | |
Schlink, Bernhard | The Reader | 1995 | Translations | |
Høeg, Peter | Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow | 1996 | Translations | |
Wieringa, Tommy | Joe Speedboat | 2005 | Translations | |
Kehlmann, Daniel | Measuring the World | 2005 | Translations | |
Brijs, Stefan | The Angel Maker | 2005 | Translations | |
Wilde, Oscar | The Picture of Dorian Gray |