11 Best philosophy books like Kinderen van Apate - Over leugens en waarachtigheid by Alicja Gescinska

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Kinderen van Apate - Over leugens en waarachtigheid

By: Alicja Gescinska

3.70

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Toen Pandora haar beruchte doos opende en de godin Apate ontsnapte, kwamen de misleiding en het bed…

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1. How to Read Literature

By: Terry Eagleton

3.69

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nurser… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Baa Baa Black Sheep’ makes Marx’s Capital look like Mary Poppins ."

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

"That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature."

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

"It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic post in Dublin because he misspelt the word ‘professor’ on his applicat…"

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

"The most uninspired form of criticism simply tells the story of a work in different words. Some students imagine they are writing criticism when for the most part they are simply paraphrasing a text,…"

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

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2. Too Much Happiness: Stories

By: Alice Munro

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into st… read more

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"It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation"

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

"You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never."

-Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

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3. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"

-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

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4. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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5. Yerma

By: Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lo… read more

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6. With Borges

By: Alberto Manguel

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1964, in Buenos Aires, a blind writer in his sixties approached a sixteen-year-old bookstore cle… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. Monsieur Hawarden

By: Filip de Pillecyn

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Weemoedig verhaal, spelend tegen de achtergrond van de crisisjaren in het Eifelgebied, over een als… read more

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8. Bezonken rood

By: Jeroen Brouwers

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Samen met zijn moeder bracht Jeroen Brouwers zijn kleuterjaren door in het Japanse interneringskamp… read more

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9. Grand Hotel

By: Vicki Baum

3.75

Format: 352 pages,

A beautiful ballerina, to whom love is no less an art than dancing... A lovely and ingenuous peasan… read more

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10. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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11. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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12. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

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13. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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14. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • philosophy
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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15. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more

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"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

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16. De eerlijke vinder

By: Lize Spit

3.61

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more

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17. Schemerleven

By: Jaap Robben

4.44

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Wanneer de jonge, vrijgevochten Frieda Tendeloo op een late wintermiddag in 1963 de dichtgevroren W… read more

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18. Ik ga naar de schapen

By: Marieke De Maré

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In dit verhaal proberen vijf mensen het moeilijkste raadsel ter wereld op te lossen. Als ze dat ni… read more

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19. La crisis de la narración

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."

-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración

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20. Malma station

By: Alex Schulman

3.64

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Alex Schulmans nya roman utspelar sig på ett tåg. Fem personer är på resa genom Sverige: ett gift p… read more

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21. The Possession

By: Annie Ernaux

3.75

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more

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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

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22. The World as Will and Representation

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

4.26

Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition

The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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23. Los escorpiones

By: Sara Barquinero

3.67

Format: 963 pages, Kindle Edition

LA MONUMENTAL NOVELA DE UNA GENERACIÓN La joven Sara Barquinero, elogiada por Carlos Zanón, Nuri… read more

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24. Manifiesto por la lectura

By: Irene Vallejo

4.38

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

«Somos seres entretejidos de relatos, bordados con hilos de voces, de historia, de filosofía y de c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"La lectura ofrece puentes colgantes de palabras."

-Irene Vallejo, Manifiesto por la lectura

"Para que algum dia se torne realidade, o impossível deve ser sonhado primeiro."

-Irene Vallejo, Manifiesto por la lectura

"Somos a única espécie que explica o mundo com histórias, que as deseja, tem saudades delas e as utiliza para o processo de cura."

-Irene Vallejo, Manifiesto por la lectura

"En estos días inciertos, cuando parece que los gritos se oyen más que los susurros, los libros siguen manteniendo vivo el diálogo silencioso de un par de ojos que escuchan la voz de unas hileras de l…"

-Irene Vallejo, Manifiesto por la lectura

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25. Over Normaliteit En Andere Afwijkingen

By: Paul Verhaeghe

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Paperback

De centrale stelling van dit boek is dat de psychische identiteit verworven wordt in verhouding tot… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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26. Kinderen van Apate - Over leugens en waarachtigheid

By: Alicja Gescinska

3.70

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Toen Pandora haar beruchte doos opende en de godin Apate ontsnapte, kwamen de misleiding en het bed… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy by Brian Klaas

27. The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

By: Brian Klaas

4.16

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

An ex-US campaign advisor who has sat with the world’s dictators explains Donald Trump’s increasing… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. Intieme vreemden

By: Paul Verhaeghe

3.61

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

In Intieme vreemden onderzoekt Paul Verhaeghe hoe ons zelfbeeld door de eeuwen heen veranderde zond… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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29. Ken jezelf: een openhartige filosofie

By: Tinneke Beeckman

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Wat kan je troosten? Is je verlangen gevaarlijk? Waarvoor kun je dankbaar zijn? In een moedige z… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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30. Fiktsioonid / Aleph

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Käesolev raamat koondab ühiste kaante vahele maailmakuulsa argentina kirjaniku Jorge Luis Borgese (… read more

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31. Voor als je stuk bent

By: Schiavone Simson

3.49

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

Voor als je stuk bent is een prachtige verhalen- en gedichtenbundel met ritmische en muzikale tekst… read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Terry Eagleton

3.69

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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen

4.06

Transform Your Habits

In Praise of Shadows

Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Transform Your Habits

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Alberto Manguel

3.97

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

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Anne Enright

3.55

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3.46

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