Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take…
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1. Our Lady of the Flowers
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- 20th century
"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
2. A Season in Hell
By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more
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"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell
3. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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- classics
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
4. Les Chants de Maldoror
By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham
4.15
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more
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- classics
- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"...the police, that shield of civilization..."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
5. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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- philosophy
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- fiction
6. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
By: Nick Land
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on… read more
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- philosophy
7. Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more
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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- 20th century
8. Gravity and Grace
By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more
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- philosophy
9. 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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- literature
- france
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- fiction
- 20th century
"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
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- fiction
11. Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more
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- fiction
12. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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- philosophy
13. Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires … read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
14. The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
15. Death Sentence
By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one o… read more
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- literature
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16. Manifestoes of Surrealism
By: André Breton , None , Richard Seaver , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Manifestoes of Surrealismis a book by Andre Breton, describing the aims, meaning, and political pos… read more
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17. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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18. Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Gilles Deleuze , Jean McNeil
5.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philos… read more
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19. The Torture Garden
By: Octave Mirbeau
3.00
Format: None pages,
Lidandets lustgardav Octave Mirbeau ar en av de stora dekadenta klassikerna. Romanen vackte enormt … read more
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20. The Necrophiliac
By: Gabrielle Wittkop , None
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
For more than three decades, Lucien -- one of the most notorious characters in the history of the n… read more
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21. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more
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