Figures III
By: Gérard Genette
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Les études qui composent ce volume s'articulent en une suite rigoureuse : Critique et poétique, Poé…
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1. Hopscotch
By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded… read more
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"Pero el amor, esa palabra..."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Explanation is a well-dressed error."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta."-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
"Hay ausencias que representan un verdadero triunfo"-Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
2. Proust and Signs: The Complete Text (Theory Out of Bounds)
By: Gilles Deleuze
4.22
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
Proust och tecknen är ironiskt nog ett filosofiskt argument för konstens överlägsenhet. Sällan har … read more
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3. Moll Flanders
By: Daniel Defoe
3.52
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781853260735. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Fla… read more
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"I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
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"Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore."-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
"He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that th…"-Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
4. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
5. Age of Suspicion
By: Nathalie Sarraute
3.59
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
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6. Madame Bovary
By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall
3.70
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more
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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
7. L'Arminuta
By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio
4.09
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
Ci sono romanzi che toccano corde così profonde, originarie, che sembrano chiamarci per nome. È que… read more
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"You talk shit because all you’re good for is buying your children day-old bread from the baker"-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta
"Nel tempo ho perso anche quell'idea confusa di normalita' e oggi davvero ignoro che luogo sia una madre. Mi manca come puo' mancare la salute, un riparo, una certezza. E' un vuoto persistente, che co…"-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta
8. 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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9. Contre Sainte-Beuve
By: Marcel Proust
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dans Pour la critique, Sainte-Beuve expose sa vision d'une critique proteiforme qui se doit de fair… read more
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10. Patriotism
By: Yukio Mishima , Geoffrey W. Sargent
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
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11. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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12. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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14. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
15. Marcovaldo
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressib… read more
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16. The Baron in the Trees
By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein
4.02
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more
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"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
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"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
17. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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18. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more
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19. A Woman Of Thirty
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.79
Format: 160 pages,
Our heroine Julie is attending with her ailing father one of Napoleon's reviews of his troops. It i… read more
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20. The Satyricon
By: Piero Chiara , Petronius , P.G. Walsh , Federico Roncoroni
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose & poetry (prosimetrum). It… read more
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21. The Turn of the Screw
By: Henry James
3.39
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
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"When I'm bad I am bad !"-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
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"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
"There was something between them." "There was everything."-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
22. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
23. Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel
By: Rachilde , Melanie C. Hawthorne
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor yo… read more
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24. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
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"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
25. Morphology of the Folktale
By: Alan Dundes , Vladimir Propp , Laurence Scott , None , None , None
4.15
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretica… read more
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26. Proust
By: Samuel Beckett
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett's celebrated early study of Marcel proust, whose theories of time were to play a lar… read more
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27. L'isola di Arturo
By: Elsa Morante
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Il romanzo e un'esplorazione attenta della prima realta verso le sorgenti non inquinate della vita.… read more
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28. La boutique del mistero
By: Dino Buzzati
4.15
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
La boutique del mistero è una raccolta di trentuno racconti pubblicati in diversi volumi e ordinati… read more
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"Grandi sono le soddisfazioni di una vita laboriosa, agiata e tranquilla, ma ancora più grande è l'attrazione dell'abisso."-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero
"In questo caso il ricordo di lui mi ritornava, allora mi fermavo e nel silenzio della notte a voce alta chiedevo: Dormi? Ma lui non rispondeva. Effettivamente dormiva, però lontano, sotto le crode, i…"-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero
"Vorrei pure - lasciami dire - vorrei con te sottobraccio attraversare le grandi vie della città in un tramonto di novembre, quando il cielo è di puro cristallo. Quando i fantasmi della vita corrono s…"-Dino Buzzati, La boutique del mistero
29. Capital of Pain
By: Paul Éluard , Mary Ann Caws , Patricia Terry
4.17
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Capital of Pain, is considered one of the key texts of surrealism. This is the first new translatio… read more
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30. Les Pleurs
By: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
« J’écris tout bas » : être femme et poète au XIXe siècle n’est pas chose aisée, Marceline Desborde… read more
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31. Figures III
By: Gérard Genette
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Les études qui composent ce volume s'articulent en une suite rigoureuse : Critique et poétique, Poé… read more
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