In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
By: Elena Ferrante
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept the fact that no word is truly ours. We have to give up the idea that writing miraculously releases a voice of our own, a tonality of our own: in my view that is a lazy way of talking about writing. Writing is, rather, entering an immense cemetery where every tomb is waiting to be profaned."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
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1. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- literature
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
2. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- memoir
"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
3. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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- literature
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
4. The Young Man
By: Annie Ernaux
3.61
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- memoir
- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- crafts
- books about books
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
6. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
7. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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- italy
- feminism
- italian literature
8. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- feminism
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
9. Fil Gözü
By: Mevsim Yenice
4.31
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Gece olup da onu kendi yatağında hafif bir iniltiyle, huzurla uyurken görünce, hayatı boyunca anıms… read more
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"Babam içinde uzun zamandır bulunduğu ama henüz keşfettiği bu hüzünlü durumu doğru bir yere yerleştirmek ister gibi etrafa bakıyor."-Mevsim Yenice, Fil Gözü
10. Castelul din orașul meu
By: Ioana Bâldea Constantinescu
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
În cartierul evreiesc al Bucureştiului, pe lângă un imobil galben, scorojit în eleganţa lui interbe… read more
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11. Elena Ferrante: Parole chiave
By: Tiziana de Rogatis
4.29
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
La saga in quattro volumi dell’Amica geniale di Elena Ferrante è un successo globale e trasversale.… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- italian literature
12. Sayın Bay Rock Yıldızı
By: Teoman
3.55
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
“İnsanın geçmişe ihtiyacı var. Kim olduğumuzu hatırlamak için. Daha doğrusu eskiden olduğumuz kişiy… read more
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13. Escrita em movimento: Sete princípios do fazer literário
By: Noemi Jaffe
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Após décadas ministrando oficinas literárias, Noemi Jaffe decidiu sintetizar seus ensinamentos em s… read more
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- nonfiction
- writing
14. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
By: Elena Ferrante
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more
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- italy
- crafts
- memoir
- literature
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- italian literature
- writing
- books about books
"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
15. Tăcerea vine prima
By: Ioana Maria Stăncescu
4.38
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Tăcerea vine prima vorbește despre trauma unei familii contemporane şi despre blocajele de comunica… read more
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16. My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
By: Carl Phillips
4.45
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperat… read more
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- memoir
- literature
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- crafts
17. Nu mai e nimeni acasă
By: Sabina Yamamoto
3.94
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
„Greu de ucis”. Așa s-ar povesti subiectul acestei cărți, dac-ar fi să-l concentrez în trei cuvinte… read more
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18. Hayali Bir Hayat – Sieglinde Geisel ile Söyleşi
By: Alberto Manguel
4.48
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
“Okumanın Tarihi”, “Geceleyin Kütüphane”, “Kelimeler Şehri” gibi kitaplarıyla dünya çapında bir oku… read more
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19. Spune-mi unde să apăs mai tare
By: Ramona Boldizsar
4.15
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Expunându-și vulnerabilitățile, inadecvarea, experiența maternității, reacțiile la așteptările care… read more
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20. Melhor não contar
By: Tatiana Salem Levy
4.22
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
Melhor não contar abre com uma cena iniciá aos dez anos, a protagonista relaxa numa piscina, na com… read more
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21. La escritura como un cuchillo
By: Annie Ernaux
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition
Durante un año, aproximadamente, sin una regularidad fija, Frédéric-Yves Jeannet le envió a Annie E… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
