Life in the Folds
By: Henri Michaux
4.03
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Life in the Folds , originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist H…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- france
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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- fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
3. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- poetry
- fiction
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
4. Poems
By: Charles Baudelaire
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical maste… read more
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- poetry
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness? - Anywhere, Out of this World "-Charles Baudelaire, Poems
5. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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- poetry
- france
- french literature
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
6. 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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- france
- french literature
- fiction
7. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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- fiction
8. The Holy Terrors
By: Jean Cocteau , Rosamond Lehmann
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Les Enfants Terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a … read more
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- france
- french literature
- fiction
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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- french literature
- fiction
"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
10. Love Is a Dog from Hell
By: Charles Bukowski
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places,… read more
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11. Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
By: André Gide
3.68
Format: 248 pages, Pocket Book
« Nathanaël, je t'enseignerai la ferveur. Une existence pathétique, Nathanaël, plutôt que la tranq… read more
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- poetry
- france
- french literature
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"ای کاش «اهمیت» در نگاه تو باشد نه در چیزی که به آن مینگری."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Commandements de Dieu, vous avez rendu malade mon âme, / Vous avez entouré de murs les seuls eaux pour me désaltérer."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"My happiness is made of fervour. Through the medium of all things without distinction, I have passionately worshipped"-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
"Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim."-André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures
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. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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- france
- french literature
- fiction
"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
14. Love, Poetry
By: Stuart Kendall , Paul Éluard
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paul Eluard (1895-1952) is widely considered to be one of France's most important poets. This bilin… read more
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15. Les Mains sales
By: Jean-Paul Sartre
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
<> Creee en 1948 au theatre Antoine par Francois Perier et Andre Luguet, Les Mains sales, piece sur… read more
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16. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
17. Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
By: Forugh Farrokhzad
4.16
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad… read more
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"I dreamed of that red star when I wasn’t asleep"-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
"Düşler daima Saflıklarının yüksekliğinden fırlatılıp ölürler"-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
"Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarette in the narcotic repose between two love-makings or the absent gaze of a passerby who takes off his hat to another passerby with a meaningless smile and a good …"-Forugh Farrokhzad, Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
18. Vercoquin y el plancton
By: Boris Vian
3.61
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Alocada y fresca, turgente y frutal, Vercoquin y el plancton, primera novela de Boris Vian, inédita… read more
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- french literature
- fiction
19. Blanc
By: Sylvain Tesson
3.44
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Avec mon ami le guide de haute montagne Daniel du Lac, je suis parti de Menton au bord de la Médite… read more
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20. Life in the Folds
By: Henri Michaux
4.03
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Life in the Folds , originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist H… read more
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