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Mein Name sei Gantenbein by Max Frisch Moskau - Petuški by Venedikt Erofeev Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Fiktionen. Erzählungen 1939–1944 by Jorge Luis Borges Die Gelehrtenrepublik by Arno Schmidt Den teuren Toten by Durs Grünbein Die Freistatt by William Faulkner Die Nacht vor Weihnachten by Nikolai Gogol Die Bibliothek von Babel by Jorge Luis Borges Kosmos by Witold Gombrowicz Der Zweikampf by Heinrich von Kleist
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Stiller by Max FrischGantenbein by Max Frisch
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