W.G. Sebald’s Reading List for his class, Major Trends in European Fiction, at University of East Anglia:
- Samuel Beckett, Molloy
- Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jealousy
- Nathalie Sarraute, Tropismes; Between Life & Death
- Claude Simon, The Flanders Road
- Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles
- Christoph Ransmayr, The Last Word
- Gunter Grass, From the Diary of a Snail
- Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
- Johan Borgen, The Scapegoat
- Isak Dinesen, Babette’s Feast
- Martin Hansen, The Liar
Maybe not representative but certainly interesting. I haven’t even heard of half of the authors listed above so looking forward to checking them out.