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…
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1. Wise Blood
By: Flannery O'Connor
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more
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"Jesus died to redeem you,"-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
2. Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual
By: Alexander Theroux
3.87
Format: 878 pages, Hardcover
Eugene Eyestones, an erudite sex columnist for a Boston cultural magazine, becomes enmeshed in the … read more
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"...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless impaled."-Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic; or, The Sexual Intellectual
3. Darconville's Cat
By: Alexander Theroux
4.28
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
Alaric Darconville is a young professor at a southern women’s college. He falls in love with one of… read more
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"Art creates the Eden where Adam and Eve eat the serpent."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
"The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
"Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
"Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing."-Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat
4. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
5. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
6. Zibaldone
By: Giacomo Leopardi , Michael Caesar , Franco D'Intino
4.40
Format: 2592 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth century. … read more
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"La felicità non è che il compimento"-Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone
"L'irresoluzione è peggio della disperazione."-Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone
"La pazienza è la più eroica delle virtù giusto perché non ha nessuna apparenza d'eroico."-Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone
"What poets must seem to display, besides the objects imitated, is a beautiful negligence."-Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone
7. Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
By: Sarah Perry
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Millions of years ago, humans just happened. Accidents of environment and genetics contributed to t… read more
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8. Sam Dunn Is Dead: Futurist Novel
By: John Walker , Bruno Corra , Rosa Rosà
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Sam Dunn is Dead" was described by its author Bruno Corra (1892-1976) as a "Futurist Novel" and wa… read more
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9. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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10. The Death of Virgil
By: Hermann Broch , Jean Starr Untermeyer
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Cae… read more
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11. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New
3.90
Format: 256 pages,
Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more
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12. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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13. Giles Goat-Boy
By: John Barth
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescacc… read more
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14. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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15. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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16. Ava
By: Carole Maso
3.89
Format: 575 pages, Paperback
From her hospital bed on this, her last day on earth, she makes one final ecstatic voyage. People, … read more
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17. Extinction
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction… read more
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18. Sonnets to Orpheus
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheuswere "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up an… read more
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19. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
20. War & War
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of… read more
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21. Seiobo There Below
By: László Krasznahorkai , Ottilie Mulzet
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred -- even if we a… read more
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22. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Norman Thomas di Giovanni
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. The Book of Sandwas the last … read more
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23. Nobodaddy's Children: Scenes from the Life of a Faun, Brand's Heath, Dark Mirrors
By: Arno Schmidt , John E. Woods
3.60
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This trilogy of novels traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into … read more
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24. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
25. Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel
By: Julián Ríos
3.93
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
A striking reassessment of the Don Juan myth. A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is… read more
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26. Lost in the Funhouse
By: John Barth
4.27
Format: 197 pages,
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more
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27. 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
28. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more
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29. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.89
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more
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"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
30. Spadework for a Palace
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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31. 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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