10 Top novels books like Marie aspetta Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe

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Marie aspetta Marie

By: Madeleine Bourdouxhe

3.68

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Chi ha letto La donna di Gilles sa che non c'è un'altra scrittrice capace come Madeleine Bourdouxhe…

"La vita non è una storia che si racconta. Tutt'al più, potrebbe essere una storia che si rappresenta..."

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

"However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they can never have more than an incomplete understanding of the world."

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

"Quanto fosse rimasto del passato doveva dunque essere rispettato, perché sarebbero state cose autentiche. E aveva davanti a sé i bei pericoli predisposti dal fato: in mezzo a quelli si doveva procedere, a cuore aperto. Giacché non si è, ma si diventa."

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

"In Marie non c'era né entusiasmo né odio né sconforto. E nemmeno indifferenza. Piuttosto una sorta di scontrosa serenità. Se aveva un desiderio, era quello di essere un uomo che cammina su una strada, dorme e mangia dove capita, si siede su un mucchio di sassi e taglia un pezzo di pane con un temperino. Se provava un piacere, era quello aspro e inusitato della disponibilità. Camminava con passo sicuro, gli occhi scintillanti e la testa alta - troppo alta. E la stagione dell'anno moriva troppo delicatamente per la stagione del cuore che, al ricordo di una notte, riceveva una folgorazione, una luce troppo cruda, quasi fredda."

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

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Cover of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. The Dying Animal

By: Philip Roth

3.62

Format: 156 pages,

'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you con… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Maybe it's still a bit of an affront to people, to fail to abide by the old clock of life."

-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

"When you're beguiled it helps not to think too much and just to let yourself enjoy the beguilement."

-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

"You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more."

-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

"The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And …"

-Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

Cover of Metropole by George Szirtes, Ferenc Karinthy

3. Metropole

By: George Szirtes , Ferenc Karinthy

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understan… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Fräulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler, F.H. Lyon

4. Fräulein Else

By: Arthur Schnitzler , F.H. Lyon

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

A young woman is contacted by her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by visi… read more

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  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
Cover of Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4) by Elizabeth Jane Howard

5. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more

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  • novels
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

Cover of Hygiène de l'assassin by Amélie Nothomb

6. Hygiène de l'assassin

By: Amélie Nothomb

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Pretextat Tach, prix Nobel de litterature, n'a plus que deux mois a vivre. Des journalistes du mond… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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7. The Hunting Gun

By: Yasushi Inoue , Sadamichi Yokoö

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternative cover edition . The Hunting Gun, set in the period immediately following WWII, follows… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction

8. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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9. Una donna

By: Sibilla Aleramo , Maria Corti

3.84

Format: 640 pages,

Questo romanzo di Sibilla Aleramo e del 1906. La sua immediata fortuna in Italia e nei paesi in cui… read more

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10. Camere separate

By: Pier Vittorio Tondelli

3.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

"'Camere separate' e uno straordinario e felice romanzo d'amore e di morte, di nostalgia e maturita… read more

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11. Independent People

By: Halldór Laxness , James Anderson Thompson

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

This magnificent novel--which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature--is at last… read more

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12. Sweet Days of Discipline

By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more

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13. Thérèse Desqueyroux

By: François Mauriac

1.00

Format: None pages,

Pour eviter le scandale et proteger les interets de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme T… read more

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14. Felici i felici

By: Yasmina Reza , Maurizia Balmelli

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Felici gli amati e gli amanti e coloro che possono fare a meno dell'amore. Felici i felici>>: le d… read more

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15. Fuga nelle tenebre

By: Arthur Schnitzler , Giuseppe Farese

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

Nella Fuga nelle tenebre, che fu pubblicata nel 1931, poco prima della morte dell'autore (ma la ste… read more

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16. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal

By: Misha Hoekstra , Dorthe Nors

4.34

Format: None pages,

A spikily funny, startlingly perceptive and beautifully written novel about modern life by the brig… read more

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17. The Dead Lake

By: Andrew Bromfield , Hamid Ismailov

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remot… read more

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18. Elective Affinities

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , David Constantine , None

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Elective Affinitieswas written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary gia… read more

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19. L'arte della gioia

By: Goliarda Sapienza

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more

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20. La più amata

By: Teresa Ciabatti

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Mi chiamo Teresa Ciabatti, ho quattro anni, e sono la figlia, la gioia, l'orgoglio, l'amore del Pr… read more

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21. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra by Michael Bible

22. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Cover of The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg

23. The Dry Heart

By: Natalia Ginzburg

4.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.”… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"I absorbed his every word and tried to see if there was any love in it."

-Natalia Ginzburg, The Dry Heart

Cover of Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

24. 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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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Confidenza by Domenico Starnone

25. Confidenza

By: Domenico Starnone

3.49

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Pietro vive con Teresa un amore tempestoso. Dopo l’ennesimo litigio, a lei viene un’idea: raccontam… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Far chiarezza all'interno della vita di coppia, mah, forse è un dovere, ma anche un lusso che è rischioso permettersi."

-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza

"- Aveva per modello qualcuno dei suoi insegnanti? - I miei insegnanti? No, assolutamente no. Anzi, il mio unico imperativo era: non fare ai tuoi allievi il male che i tuoi insegnanti hanno fatto a te."

-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza

"Pensai: ci innamoriamo di persone che sembrano vere ma non esistono, sono una nostra invenzione; questa donna così ferma, dalle frasi così scandite, questa donna senza timidezze, sferzante, non la co…"

-Domenico Starnone, Confidenza

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26. Fedeltà

By: Marco Missiroli

3.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

«Il malinteso», così Carlo e Margherita chiamano il dubbio che ha incrinato la superficie del loro … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria by Sara Marzullo

27. Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria

By: Sara Marzullo

3.48

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

«Ero triste, di una tristezza vischiosa e pervasiva, come melassa o incenso. E soprattutto, era cos… read more

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Cover of Vita meravigliosa by Patrizia Cavalli

28. Vita meravigliosa

By: Patrizia Cavalli

4.16

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Fosse vissuta sei o sette secoli fa, nelle terre umbre dov’è nata, Patrizia Cavalli sarebbe stata s… read more

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"Tenersi all'apparenza, forse descrivere / soltanto cose in mutua tenerezza."

-Patrizia Cavalli, Vita meravigliosa

Cover of Marie aspetta Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe

29. Marie aspetta Marie

By: Madeleine Bourdouxhe

3.68

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Chi ha letto La donna di Gilles sa che non c'è un'altra scrittrice capace come Madeleine Bourdouxhe… read more

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  • classics
  • female authors
  • belgian
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • belgium
  • novels
"La vita non è una storia che si racconta. Tutt'al più, potrebbe essere una storia che si rappresenta..."

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

"However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they can never have more than an incomplete unde…"

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

"Quanto fosse rimasto del passato doveva dunque essere rispettato, perché sarebbero state cose autentiche. E aveva davanti a sé i bei pericoli predisposti dal fato: in mezzo a quelli si doveva procede…"

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

"In Marie non c'era né entusiasmo né odio né sconforto. E nemmeno indifferenza. Piuttosto una sorta di scontrosa serenità. Se aveva un desiderio, era quello di essere un uomo che cammina su una strada…"

-Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Marie aspetta Marie

Cover of Der Fallmeister. Eine kurze Geschichte vom Töten by Christoph Ransmayr

30. Der Fallmeister. Eine kurze Geschichte vom Töten

By: Christoph Ransmayr

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Nach den Bestsellern »Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes« und »Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit« erzählt Chri… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of Prima e dopo by Alba de Céspedes

31. Prima e dopo

By: Alba de Céspedes

3.62

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Irene, una giovane donna in apparenza solida, forte, professionalmente affermata, indipendente, col… read more

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14 Best fiction books like Marie aspetta Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe

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The Dying Animal

Philip Roth

3.62

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Metropole

George Szirtes , Ferenc Karinthy

4.00

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Fräulein Else

Arthur Schnitzler , F.H. Lyon

3.77

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Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.31

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The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

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The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Deborah Levy , Violette Leduc , Derek Coltman

3.69

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Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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Arkada Yaylılar Çalıyor

Melikşah Altuntaş

3.35

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