An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
By: Alain-Paul Mallard
3.78
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty mel…
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1. Vertigo
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.00
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amaz… read more
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"Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"É um vazio todo peculiar que surge quando, numa cidade estranha, a pessoa disca números de telefone em vão. Quando ninguém atende, é uma decepção de alcance transcendente, como se esses números aleat…"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
2. Il diario intimo di Sally Mara
By: Raymond Queneau , Leonella Prato Caruso
3.68
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Sally Mara è una diciottenne che tiene un diario. Con un candore un po' sospetto e con effetti comi… read more
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3. La carte et le territoire
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.95
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more
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"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire
4. The Cathedral of Mist
By: Edward Gauvin , Paul Willems , Bette Burgoyne
4.12
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last o… read more
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"Miracles belong only to the moment, and live on only in memory."-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist
"For the palace was but emptiness, a hole in a labyrinth of lines, a skyward precipice."-Edward Gauvin, The Cathedral of Mist
5. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
6. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
By: Peter Handke , Jeffrey Eugenides , Ralph Manheim
3.56
Format: None pages,
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the … read more
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7. Odd Jobs
By: Tony Duvert , S.C. Delaney , Agnes Potier
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
This series of twenty-three satirically scabrous short texts introduces the reader to an imaginary … read more
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8. My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain
By: Patricio Pron
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
The American debut of one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a daring, deeply affec… read more
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9. The Conductor and Other Tales
By: Jean Ferry , Edward Gauvin , Claude Ballaré
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (and… read more
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10. How to Read and Why
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question wit… read more
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11. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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12. The Woman in the Dunes
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
3.89
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more
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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes
13. How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
By: Thomas C. Foster
3.17
Format: 319 pages,
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden r… read more
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14. Song of Myself
By: Walt Whitman
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirat… read more
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15. The Unruly Bridal Bed and Other Grotesques
By: Salomo Friedlaender , Mynona , None
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1921, The Unruly Bridal Bedbrings together ten indefinable tales that inclu… read more
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16. 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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17. The Return of Munchausen
By: Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky , Joanne Turnbull , None
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Baron Munchausen's hold on the European imagination dates back to the late eighteenth century when … read more
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18. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
19. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
By: Machado de Assis
4.25
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia… read more
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"Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Em verdade vos digo que toda a sabedoria humana não vale um par de botas curtas."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"Diz que o homem tem “uma grande vantagem sobre o resto do universo: sabe que morre, ao passo que o universo ignora-o absolutamente"-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
"هر دوره زندگی چاپ جدیدی است که چاپ قبلی را تصحیح میکند و خودش هم در چاپ بعدی تصحیح میشود، تا برسد به چاپ متن نهایی که ناشر به کرم ها تقدیم میکندش."-Machado de Assis, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas
20. The Street of Crocodiles
By: Jonathan Safran Foer , Bruno Schulz , Jerzy Ficowski , Celina Wieniewska
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where r… read more
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"Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"Can there be anything sadder than a human being changed into the rubber tube of an enema?"-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
"The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference."-Jonathan Safran Foer, The Street of Crocodiles
21. El corazón del daño
By: María Negroni
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
Recopilación privada; ajuste de cuentas con una madre desesperada y desesperante; desmontaje de una… read more
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"O la vida es un viaje hacia la nada y la escritura un atajo."-María Negroni, El corazón del daño
22. His Name was Death
By: Rafael Bernal
4.10
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling the… read more
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23. The Water Statues
By: Fleur Jaeggy
3.49
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar b… read more
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"Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachend…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe sch…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Ich habe viel Zeit in den Kellergewölben verbracht, nicht aus Überdruß an der Sonne oder plein air, ich verlor nur die Kontrolle über die Stunden und über das Leben, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf;…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
24. The Mill: A Cosmos
By: Bess Brenck Kalischer
3.62
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922 and is translated … read more
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25. Nothing But the Night
By: John Williams
3.22
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' ca… read more
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26. An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
By: Alain-Paul Mallard
3.78
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty mel… read more
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27. Brief Lives of Idiots
By: Ermanno Cavazzoni
3.30
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
A parody of the Lives of the Saints from the Middle Ages, Ermanno Cavazzoni’s Brief Lives of Idiots… read more
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28. Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself
By: Hermann Burger
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
“Suicidology is the science of self-murder. Suicidography is the vision of a life reduced to a chai… read more
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29. Curl (Subverse)
By: T.O. Bobe
4.12
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
“Death doesn't scare me. Its barbershop does.” Mr. Gica is the world's greatest barber. He is on… read more
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30. Principles of Cerebral Mechanics (Imagining Science, 7)
By: Charles Cros
3.36
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros―poet, friend to Rim… read more
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