Hallucinatory European 20th Century Classics

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The Tin Drum
1.  The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
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  "Diminutive drummer Oskar leads us on a barbaric, mystical, bored journey through Nazi and post-war Germany via the horse's head, the onion bierkeller and deserted pillboxes."
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Auto da Fe (Vintage classics)
2.  Auto da Fe (Vintage classics) by Elias Canetti
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  "Isolated German intellectual who literally stores his library in his skull meets menacing chess master.  Burn, baby, burn!"
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The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "Josef K has the ultimate bad day at the office.  We are all on trial - eternally."
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The Castle (Vintage Classics)
4.  The Castle (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
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  "The most depressing tale of a failed job application ever.  All are summoned, none are admitted."
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Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared
5.  Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka
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  "Young Karl (K again) is banished from his European universe, but the land of possibilites offers no escape from the self.  Strange travelogue indeed."
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Ferdydurke (Twentieth Century Classics)
6.  Ferdydurke (Twentieth Century Classics) by Witold Gombrowicz
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  "A deranged trip back in time for the neurotic Ferdydurke.  Sexual anxiety, paranoia and other fun stuff ensue."
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The Master And Margarita (Everyman's Library classics)
7.  The Master And Margarita (Everyman's Library classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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  "Satan and chums visit Moscow and entertain themselves by messing with everyone's heads.  Never talk to strangers...."
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Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  "Fear and depersonalisation in 30's Paris  with Roquentin, another tortured intellectual.  A park bench turns weird!"
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Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics)
9.  Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hermann Hesse
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  "Alienated outsider (another one!) Harry, torn between the animal and the divine, falls into a canivalesque world of sex, decadence and all-round oddness.  Don't go into the Anarchist Theatre, kids!"
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Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch (Penguin Modern Classics)
10.  Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Bataille
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  "A "pussy" that drinks a saucer of milk, bull's testicles and a murdered priest.  A delightful tale of a young romance."
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The Unlimited Dream Company (Paladin Books)
11.  The Unlimited Dream Company (Paladin Books) by J. G. Ballard
The list author says:
  "Murderous aeroplane thief crashes into the Thames, becomes a possibly dead mystic who makes the citizens of Shepperton take to the skies.  "The Tempest" as a transcendental acid trip!"
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The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
12.  The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
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  ""I had to shoot him, your Honour, the sun was hurting my eyes.""
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker
13.  The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
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  "An alcoholic tramp finds another kind of spirit in 30s Paris and dies a happy man.  A beautiful parable of life in the gutter."
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We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
14.  We (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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  "People who live in glass houses should turn themselves in to the authorities when they begin to discover the imagination.  D-503 finally gets the cure."
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The Third Policeman (Paladin Books)
15.  The Third Policeman (Paladin Books) by Flann O'Brien
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  "A mindbender of a tale.  When in Hell, don't ride the bicycles!"
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Solaris (FF Classics)
16.  Solaris (FF Classics) by Lem Stanislaw
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  "Existential angst caused by the weirdest girlfriend in history.  Inner space goes outer space."
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