Andreas's Top 5 Novels
Michael Bulgakov: "The Master and Margarita"
A book that gripped me from the first to the last page. Two stories that appear to have nothing to do with each other-the devil comes to totalitarian Moscow and Jesus has a discussion with Pontius Pilate-are woven into a wonderful whole. dtv 11668
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A book that gripped me from the first to the last page. Two stories that appear to have nothing to do with each other-the devil comes to totalitarian Moscow and Jesus has a discussion with Pontius Pilate-are woven into a wonderful whole. dtv 11668
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Paulo Coelho: "Der Alchimist"
"The name of the boy was Santiago." This is how the book starts, a work that has changed the lives of many people. To date, the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho has sold 80 million copies of his books and encourages people to face their own question of meaning. Since its foundation in 2003 Paulo Coelho has been the patron of Waldzell Institute, and today I am proud that Paulo is among my personal friends.
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"The name of the boy was Santiago." This is how the book starts, a work that has changed the lives of many people. To date, the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho has sold 80 million copies of his books and encourages people to face their own question of meaning. Since its foundation in 2003 Paulo Coelho has been the patron of Waldzell Institute, and today I am proud that Paulo is among my personal friends.
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Herman Hesse: "The Glass Bead Game"
This wonderful book about mankind's eternal struggle to fulfill their vocation has unfortunately been read by too many people at too young an age. Quite rightly, though, its fascination still allures every generation. The fictitious place "Waldzell", where each year a selected group of people, the Glass Bead Players, creates an intellectual-spiritual work of art whose effect reaches far beyond the circle of players, serves as a metaphor for the Waldzell Meetings 2004 to 2007.
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This wonderful book about mankind's eternal struggle to fulfill their vocation has unfortunately been read by too many people at too young an age. Quite rightly, though, its fascination still allures every generation. The fictitious place "Waldzell", where each year a selected group of people, the Glass Bead Players, creates an intellectual-spiritual work of art whose effect reaches far beyond the circle of players, serves as a metaphor for the Waldzell Meetings 2004 to 2007.
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Stefan Zweig: "Joseph Fouché"
Zweig's fascinating "Portrait of a Political Person" draws a picture of the French minister of police, who was completely addicted to power. It appeared in 1929-just in time as a harbinger of gathering horror. Fischer 1915
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Zweig's fascinating "Portrait of a Political Person" draws a picture of the French minister of police, who was completely addicted to power. It appeared in 1929-just in time as a harbinger of gathering horror. Fischer 1915
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Franz Werfel: "The Star of the Unborn"
A masterwork about the basic questions of human beings written as a travel book in a fictitious, apparently ideal world. Franz Werfel finished this book just a few days before his death.
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A masterwork about the basic questions of human beings written as a travel book in a fictitious, apparently ideal world. Franz Werfel finished this book just a few days before his death.
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