jazzman111
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A few more offerings
If it's not too late to offer some suggestions, there are many pieces of literature that portray issues of philosophical, cultural and political implications. To name a few that come to mind:
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (society based on liberation from the limits posed by conventionally dictated monagomy and naturally inclined reproduction)
-Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil (fascinating, even spell-binding potrayal of the Northern European notion of "bodenstandigkeit" (a sense of being rooted in one's native land)
-George Orwell, 1984 (brilliant portrayal of the character of modern totalitariansim)
-Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, (an exploration of the implication, if God is dead, then everything is permitted)
-Stendall, The Red and the Black (an exploration of the relationship between the Catholic church and the state)
-Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (one of my favorite novels of all time--an ironic look into slavery and human nature)
-Hemingway--his short story "Big Two-hearted River". (No one has captured the experience of a fisherman's sense of being at one with nature while at the same time showing a war-torn man's desperate need to be healed by plunging into that experience.)
-Vercour (?), Le Silence de la Mer. (An intriguing, allegorical story written during the occupation showing the complex relationship between France and Germany)
If it's not too late to offer some suggestions, there are many pieces of literature that portray issues of philosophical, cultural and political implications. To name a few that come to mind:
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (society based on liberation from the limits posed by conventionally dictated monagomy and naturally inclined reproduction)
-Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil (fascinating, even spell-binding potrayal of the Northern European notion of "bodenstandigkeit" (a sense of being rooted in one's native land)
-George Orwell, 1984 (brilliant portrayal of the character of modern totalitariansim)
-Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, (an exploration of the implication, if God is dead, then everything is permitted)
-Stendall, The Red and the Black (an exploration of the relationship between the Catholic church and the state)
-Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (one of my favorite novels of all time--an ironic look into slavery and human nature)
-Hemingway--his short story "Big Two-hearted River". (No one has captured the experience of a fisherman's sense of being at one with nature while at the same time showing a war-torn man's desperate need to be healed by plunging into that experience.)
-Vercour (?), Le Silence de la Mer. (An intriguing, allegorical story written during the occupation showing the complex relationship between France and Germany)
