5 must-read novella books like The Gigolo by Françoise Sagan

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The Gigolo

By: Françoise Sagan

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool…

If you liked the novella plot in The Gigolo by Françoise Sagan , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Notes on ‘Camp’

By: Susan Sontag

3.97

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's Notes on ‘Camp’ book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"

-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’

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2. Africa's Tarnished Name

By: Chinua Achebe

4.40

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others… read more

Similar categories in Chinua Achebe's Africa's Tarnished Name book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • short stories
"Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

"The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see st…"

-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name

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3. The Vigilante

By: John Steinbeck

3.50

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more

Similar categories in John Steinbeck's The Vigilante book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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4. Piers of the Homeless Night

By: Jack Kerouac

3.18

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of li… read more

Similar categories in Jack Kerouac's Piers of the Homeless Night book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • modern classics
"The hobo has two watches you can't buy at Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky."

-Jack Kerouac, Piers of the Homeless Night

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5. The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

By: Federico García Lorca

3.33

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

My heartbrims with billowsand minnowsof shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely… read more

Similar categories in Federico García Lorca's The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern) book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
"The evening, lacking intelligent relations, crumbles down into the haze of the horizon.)"

-Federico García Lorca, The Dialogue of Two Snails (Penguin Modern)

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6. The Gigolo

By: Françoise Sagan

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool… read more

Similar categories in Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • modern classics
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7. The Skeleton’s Holiday

By: Leonora Carrington

3.66

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear h… read more

Similar categories in Leonora Carrington's The Skeleton’s Holiday book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
"The hyena found it difficult to walk in my high-heeled shoes."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton was as happy as a madman whose straitjacket had been taken off."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine."

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

"The skeleton's lodgings had an ancient head and modern feet. The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth. It was painted white and decorated with snowballs in which a heart beat. He looked like a tr…"

-Leonora Carrington, The Skeleton’s Holiday

Cover of The Red Tenda of Bologna (PENGUIN MODERN) by John Berger

8. The Red Tenda of Bologna (PENGUIN MODERN)

By: John Berger

4.05

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A drea… read more

Similar categories in John Berger's The Red Tenda of Bologna (PENGUIN MODERN) book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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9. New York City in 1979

By: Kathy Acker

3.11

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

"It is necessary to go to as many extremes as possible." A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and … read more

Similar categories in Kathy Acker's New York City in 1979 book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
"Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny."

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

"old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to …"

-Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

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10. The Cracked Looking-Glass

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.04

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'She only wished to prove to herself she was once more on a train going somewhere' A passionate,… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Anne Porter's The Cracked Looking-Glass book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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11. The Finger

By: William S. Burroughs

3.31

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of bloo… read more

Similar categories in William S. Burroughs's The Finger book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
Cover of I Have More Souls Than One by Fernando Pessoa

12. I Have More Souls Than One

By: Fernando Pessoa

3.96

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring,And her soul sings unencumbere… read more

Similar categories in Fernando Pessoa's I Have More Souls Than One book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • modern classics
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13. The End

By: Samuel Beckett

3.19

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Beckett's The End book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • france
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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14. The Duke in His Domain

By: Truman Capote

3.80

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, … read more

Similar categories in Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams

15. Death the Barber

By: William Carlos Williams

3.39

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

'The alphabet ofthe treesis fading in thesong of the leaves' Filled with bright, unforgettable i… read more

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Death the Barber book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • fiction
  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
Cover of Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? by Hans Fallada

16. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

By: Hans Fallada

3.51

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends … read more

Similar categories in Hans Fallada's Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • modern classics
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17. The Problem That Has No Name

By: Betty Friedan

4.20

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

'What if she isn't happy - does she think men are happy in this world? Doesn't she know how lucky s… read more

Similar categories in Betty Friedan's The Problem That Has No Name book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • modern classics
  • short stories
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18. Four Russian Short Stories

By: Gaito Gazdanov

3.35

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

In these stories, four writers—all exiles from revolutionary Russia—explore four deaths in a world … read more

Similar categories in Gaito Gazdanov's Four Russian Short Stories book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • literature
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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19. Letter to My Mother

By: Georges Simenon

3.74

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Sime… read more

Similar categories in Georges Simenon's Letter to My Mother book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • short stories
  • france
  • french literature
  • modern classics
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20. Leaving the Yellow House

By: Saul Bellow

3.25

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had … read more

Similar categories in Saul Bellow's Leaving the Yellow House book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics
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21. Glittering City

By: Cyprian Ekwensi

3.15

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins s… read more

Similar categories in Cyprian Ekwensi's Glittering City book and Françoise Sagan's The Gigolo

  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • modern classics

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