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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

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by Peter Handke

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I loved loved this book. Can you recommend any other books like it? A mix of memoir and wider reflection. Other books I've recently enjoyed: Austerlitz, My Struggle series
Bastian Great question. I consider myself a connoisseur of this vein of (mostly European) literature. I would highly recommend:

- everything W.G. Sebald has ev…moreGreat question. I consider myself a connoisseur of this vein of (mostly European) literature. I would highly recommend:

- everything W.G. Sebald has ever written
- Peter Handke's "Repetition", "The Weight of the World" and "The Afternoon of a Writer"
- Thomas Bernhard's "Gathering Evidence" (his autobiography) and "Wittgenstein's Nephew"
- Vladimir Nabokov's "Speak, Memory"
- Bruno Schulz's "The Street of Crocodiles"
- Danilo Kiš's "Garden, Ashes"
- Isaak Babel's "Red Cavalry"
- Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Childhood around 1900"
- Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"
- Georges Perec's "W, or the Memory of Childhood"
- Gottfried Keller's "Green Henry"

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