11 Best nonfiction books like Il libro dell'Es. Lettere di psicoanalisi a un'amica by Georg Groddeck

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Il libro dell'Es. Lettere di psicoanalisi a un'amica

By: Georg Groddeck

3.78

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Il più divertente, scintillante e malizioso fra i classici della psicoanalisi. «Norman Douglas dist…

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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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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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. La vie devant soi

By: Romain Gary , None

4.21

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Signé Ajar, ce roman reçut le prix Goncourt en 1975. Histoire d'amour d'un petit garçon arabe pour … read more

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"هیچکس از ته دل نمی‌خواهد که بدی کند"

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"Много ясно си спомням този миг от живота си, понеже беше досущ като останалите."

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"سه ساله بودم که برای اولین بار رُزاخانم را دیدم. قبل از این سن آدم چیزی یادش نمی‌آید و در جهلِ مطلق دست و پا می‌زند"

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"Аз мисля, че живота трябва да го живеем в най-ранна възраст, защото после се обезценяваш и никой нищо не ти дава даром."

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

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3. The soul of the white ant

By: Eugène N. Marais

4.20

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

English, Afrikaans (translation) read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

By: Oliver Sacks

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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5. Difficult Loves

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and g… read more

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6. Six Memos For The Next Millennium

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 656 pages,

Six Memos for the Millenniumis a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more

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8. The Mind of a Mnemonist

By: Jerome Bruner , Alexander R. Luria

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This study explores the inner world of a rare human phenomenon―a man who was endowed with virtually… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Perhaps this account of a man who "saw" everything will play some part in the difficult course that lies ahead."

-Jerome Bruner, The Mind of a Mnemonist

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9. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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  • psychology
"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

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10. The Man with a Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound

By: Oliver Sacks , Lynn Solotaroff , Alexander R. Luria

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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11. Le solite sospette

By: John Niven , Marco Rossari

3.75

Format: 148 pages, ebook

Quando Susan - a causa dei vizi nascosti del marito - si ritrova vedova e con la casa pignorata, in… read more

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12. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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13. Atonement

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages,

Ian McEwan's symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides a… read more

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14. L'abito di piume

By: Banana Yoshimoto , Alessandro Giovanni Gerevini

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. The Gentle Spirit

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.89

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In this compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident, a pawnbroker mourns the loss of… read more

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"I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Oh, I have always been proud, I always wanted all or nothing! You see it was just because I am not one who will accept half a happiness, but always wanted all"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own ac…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

"Listen! This is where it began but I keep getting muddled... The fact of the matter is that I now want to recall everything, every trifle, every little detail. I still want to collect my thoughts and…"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit

16. Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse , Hilda Rosner

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Siddhartha Este libro electronico tiene una mesa activa de los contenidos Siddhartha es una novela … read more

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17. The Call of the Wild

By: Jack London

3.91

Format: 172 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on Lo… read more

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"The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck"

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"…and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"There is a patience of the wild – dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

"A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated."

-Jack London, The Call of the Wild

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18. The Minds of Billy Milligan

By: Daniel Keyes

4.28

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Rasa benci tidak mungkin sepenuhnya dibersihkan. Itulah hal yang harus kita terima, agar tetap punya sifat kuat dan agresif."

-Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan

"By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling… But a world without feeling is a world without pain."

-Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan

"Chiudendo la porta sul mondo reale, potremo vivere in pace nel nostro. Sappiamo che un mondo senza dolore è un mondo senza sentimento... ma un mondo senza sentimento è un mondo senza dolore."

-Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan

"Что важнее, расширять кругозор или демонстрировать чувства? Может, даже сам вопрос неверный, потому что у тебя чувств нет. Вероятно, если подавить их и жить исключительно логикой, можно стать выдающи…"

-Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan

19. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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20. An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

By: Etty Hillesum , Eva Hoffman

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possib… read more

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21. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Angela Richards

4.10

Format: 322 pages,

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22. 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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23. I miei stupidi intenti

By: Bernardo Zannoni

3.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more

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24. I baffi

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.73

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more

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25. Tutta la vita che resta

By: Roberta Recchia

4.51

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Uno strappo che sembrava impossibile da ricucire, una famiglia che nel corso degli anni ritrova la … read more

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26. If Cats Disappeared from the World

By: Genki Kawamura

3.80

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage… read more

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"There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

"They say that when a man is dying, the first name that comes to mind is his first love."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

"Throughout history we’ve given birth to new things, only to lose the old way of doing things."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

"Yeah, but just being alive doesn't mean all that much on its own. How you live is more important."

-Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

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27. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

By: Sady Doyle

4.10

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop c… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We would rather see girls stopped dead—stuck in a constant childhood that never decays—than let them grow into women who can pursue their desires."

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

"Once a woman is free to desire and pursue her own desires, she moves beyond the reach of our empathy; she's a threat that must be contained or destroyed."

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

"The ultimate violence patriarchy does to women is to make us believe we deserve what has been done to us—a loop forever closing, breaking us so that we will raise broken women."

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

"[...] ora le donne non possono più fermarsi. Ci riprenderemo il mondo, i nostri corpi e tutte le possibilità che ci sono state negate. Quando apriremo bocca, i nostri oppressori dovranno tacere e, qu…"

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

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28. Noi siamo tempesta

By: Michela Murgia

3.83

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Storie senza eroe che hanno cambiato il mondo Sventurata è la terra che ha bisogno di eroi, scri… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By: Justin Gregg

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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30. Il libro dell'Es. Lettere di psicoanalisi a un'amica

By: Georg Groddeck

3.78

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Il più divertente, scintillante e malizioso fra i classici della psicoanalisi. «Norman Douglas dist… read more

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  • philosophy
  • psychoanalysis
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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31. Totem e tabù - Psicologia delle masse e analisi dell'Io

By: Sigmund Freud

4.06

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

L’opera di Freud è proposta nell’unica edizione integrale e di riferimento, diretta da Cesare Musat… read more

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4.15

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Italo Calvino

3.71

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Jerome Bruner , Alexander R. Luria

4.04

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