The Die Is Cast
By: Robert Desnos
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance act…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Letzte Lockerung. Ein Handbrevier für Hochstapler und solche, die es werden wollen.
By: Walter Serner
4.08
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
A cofounder of Dada and its enfant terrible, Walter Serner was a brilliant observer of society — hi… read more
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3. The Magnetic Fields
By: Philippe Soupault , André Breton
3.88
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Les Champs magnétiques (1920; The Magnetic Fields) is known as the first major surrealist work. read more
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"They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
4. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
5. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
6. Disagreeable Tales
By: Léon Bloy , Erik Butler
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty … read more
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7. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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- french literature
"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
8. Sam Dunn Is Dead: Futurist Novel
By: John Walker , Bruno Corra , Rosa Rosà
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Sam Dunn is Dead" was described by its author Bruno Corra (1892-1976) as a "Futurist Novel" and wa… read more
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9. Daniel Deronda
By: George Eliot , Edmund White
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more
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10. A Dilemma
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a parti… read more
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11. Pierre Reverdy
By: John Ashbery , Lydia Davis , Kenneth Rexroth , Pierre Reverdy , Mary Ann Caws
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens a… read more
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12. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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13. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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15. The Street of Crocodiles
By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more
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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
16. Malpertuis
By: Iain White , Jean Ray , John Flanders
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
A manuscript stolen from a monastery, the ancient stone house of a sea-trading dynasty, which may b… read more
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17. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
18. Deserter
By: Junji Ito
3.99
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
AN EVER-INCREASING MALICE. A MIND-NUMBING TERROR. SEE THE SEEDS OF HORROR SOWN IN THIS COLLECTION O… read more
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19. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
By: Shawn Levy
3.67
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more
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20. The Sundays of Jean Dézert
By: Jean de La Ville de Mirmont
3.75
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Jean Dézert is a melancholy individual who, plagued with a terrible lack of imagination, is mortall… read more
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21. Death in Her Hands
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.24
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more
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"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands
22. The Die Is Cast
By: Robert Desnos
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance act… read more
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23. Cruise of Shadows: Haunted Stories of Land and Sea
By: Jean Ray
4.04
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Footsteps in an abandoned holiday resort as the cold weather settles in; a door that opens in an em… read more
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24. An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
By: Alain-Paul Mallard
3.78
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty mel… read more
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25. Samalio Pardulus
By: Otto Julius Bierbaum
3.55
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
“He stepped very close to me, and his eyes were terrible as he said, ‘Hear this, man from Tuscany, … read more
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26. The Impersonal Adventure
By: Marcel Béalu
3.56
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and profession on a wh… read more
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27. A Death: Notes of a Suicide
By: Zalman Shneour
3.98
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
In a Yiddish take on Notes from Underground, a dark, expressionist love affair develops in a large,… read more
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28. Principles of Cerebral Mechanics (Imagining Science, 7)
By: Charles Cros
3.36
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros―poet, friend to Rim… read more
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29. Munchaussen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel
By: Paul Scheerbart
3.43
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
It is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding sway over Europe. As an eighteen-year-old Clarissa and… read more
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30. The Construction of the Tower of Babel
By: Juan Benet
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Juan Benet’s penultimate book, The Construction of the Tower of Babel brings together two essays th… read more
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31. The Young and the Evil
By: Charles Henri Ford
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Note that the correct title of this book is The Young and Evil, not The Young and the Evil as seen … read more
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