Books Level 5
Procedures
- Action Action is no longer the main focus of the text or it has a symbolical/implicit/more general meaning.
- Chronology Subjective and relative chronology. Different timelines and shifts in time.
- Storyline(s) Many interwoven storylines, asking for the creative participation of the reader to put them together.
- Perspective Changing of different perspectives need not be transparent.
- Meaning Implicit, multiple interpretations, several layers of meaning beyond the concrete, diversity of themes and contexts.
Style
- Vocabulary Diversity can be mastered (historical, regional and experimental vocabulary).
- Sentence construction The sentences may be long and complex (historical, regional idiom.
- Stylistic Challenging poetical language, e.g. due to historical distance.
Characters
- Character Characters may be complex, ambiguous and/or unpredictable. There may be symbolic or implicit characterization. Historical context of characters can be complex.
- Number Not important, even if the connections between many different characters are not clearly marked.
- Relations Unpredictable, ambiguous, controversial relations are common.
Book list Level 5
Author | Title | Year | Book Scan | Translations |
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Erasmus | Praise of Folly | 1509 | Translations | |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang | The Sorrows of Young Werther | 1774 | Translations | |
Kleist, Heinrich von | The Marquise of O. | 1808 | Translations | |
Multatuli | Max Havelaar | 1863 | Translations | |
Rebreanu, Liviu | Forest of the Hanged | 1922 | Translations | |
Papadat-Bengescu, Hortensia | A Bach Concert | 1927 | Translations | |
Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | 1931 | ||
Sadoveanu, Mihail | The Golden Bough | 1933 | Translations | |
Wright, Richard | Native Son | 1940 | ||
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich | The Pledge | 1958 | Translations | |
Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart | 1958 | ||
Hermans, W.F. | Beyond Sleep | 1966 | Translations | |
Kundera, Milan | Laughable Loves | 1974 | Translations | |
Hrabal, Bohumil | Too Loud a Solitude | 1990 | Translations | |
Gaarder, Jostein | Sophie's World | 1995 | Translations | |
Grunberg, Arnon | Tirza | 2006 | Translations | |
Hosseini, Khaled | A Thousand Splendid Suns | 2007 | ||
Oksanen, Sofi | Purge | 2008 | Translations |