Kerstans Kanon - Sprache & Kommunikation

October 9, 2024
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Kerstans Kanon is an attempt to create a common collection of knowledge that may be considered "cultural canon". This collection is limited by a very germano-centric perspective, however, others may find this collection interesting nonetheless or specifically therefore.

Kerstan divides his canon into three literary categories:
- History and Philosophy (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-philosophie-geschichte)
- Language and Communication (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-sprache-kommunikation)
- History and Philosophy (https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-mathematik-naturwissenschaft)

Beneath the article where this canon was published, a lively discussion developed, where many more works were suggested to be added. I have collected many here: https://hardcover.app/@Freule/lists/kerstans-kanon-leserempfehlungen

The original article (in german) can be found here:
https://fd.phwa.ch/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Kerstan-Kanon.pdf

As published in Zeit:
https://www.zeit.de/2018/34/allgemeinwissen-kanon-globalisierung-digitalisierung-jugend-bildung

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.66	319 reads
1984 George Orwell	4.19	3,134 reads
Ilias und Odyssee Walter Jens	0	0 reads
Der zerbrochne Krug Heinrich von Kleist	3	3 reads
Wer ist wir? Navid Kermani	0	0 reads
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß Robert Musil	0	0 reads
Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition James Joyce	3.92	135 reads
Winnie The Pooh A.A. Milne	4.29	26 reads
The Trial Franz Kafka	4.05	297 reads
The Plague Albert Camus Robin Buss (Translator)	4.01	246 reads
Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. Ulrich Plenzdorf	3.83	3 reads
Nathan the Wise Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Ronald Schechter	2.39	16 reads
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	3.99	316 reads
Mutterzunge Emine Sevgi Özdamar	0	0 reads
Das Lied von der Glocke Das Lied von der Glocke Friedrich Schiller Charles Bilton	0	0 reads
Leben des Galilei Bertolt Brecht	3	2 reads
The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.8	704 reads
The Iliad Homer Alexander Pope (Translator)	4.04	53 reads
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.09	598 reads
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J. K. Rowling	4.29	4,032 reads
Hansel and Gretel Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm	3	5 reads
Hamlet William Shakespeare	4.04	760 reads
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe F.D. Luke	3.87	128 reads
Emil und die Detektive Erich Kästner	4	2 reads
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann	4.35	14 reads
The Tin Drum Günter Grass Breon Mitchell (Translator)	4.19	24 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	3.68	803 reads

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.66	319 reads
1984 George Orwell	4.19	3,134 reads
Ilias und Odyssee Walter Jens	0	0 reads
Der zerbrochne Krug Heinrich von Kleist	3	3 reads
Wer ist wir? Navid Kermani	0	0 reads
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß Robert Musil	0	0 reads
Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition James Joyce	3.92	135 reads
Winnie The Pooh A.A. Milne	4.29	26 reads
The Trial Franz Kafka	4.05	297 reads
The Plague Albert Camus Robin Buss (Translator)	4.01	246 reads
Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. Ulrich Plenzdorf	3.83	3 reads
Nathan the Wise Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Ronald Schechter	2.39	16 reads
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco William Weaver (Translator)	3.99	316 reads
Mutterzunge Emine Sevgi Özdamar	0	0 reads
Das Lied von der Glocke Das Lied von der Glocke Friedrich Schiller Charles Bilton	0	0 reads
Leben des Galilei Bertolt Brecht	3	2 reads
The Odyssey Homer Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.8	704 reads
The Iliad Homer Alexander Pope (Translator)	4.04	53 reads
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa (Translator)	4.09	598 reads
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J. K. Rowling	4.29	4,032 reads
Hansel and Gretel Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm	3	5 reads
Hamlet William Shakespeare	4.04	760 reads
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe F.D. Luke	3.87	128 reads
Emil und die Detektive Erich Kästner	4	2 reads
Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann	4.35	14 reads
The Tin Drum Günter Grass Breon Mitchell (Translator)	4.19	24 reads
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway	3.68	803 reads

Kerstans Kanon - Sprache & Kommunikation

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