The Defeat of the Mind
By: Alain Finkielkraut
3.83
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
A passionate critique of Enlightenment—both in its contemporary invocation and its historical and c…
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1. Quo Vadis
By: Henryk Sienkiewicz , W.S. Kuniczak
4.01
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome--from the Forum to the Coliseum, fr… read more
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"If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?"-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
"-Моето щастие мина, и радостта ми отмина, но аз не съм зла."-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
"Светът е измамен, а животът е илюзия. Трябва да имаш достатъчно ум за да различиш приятните от лошите илюзии."-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
"Look at us! For us there are no partings, no pains, no sufferings; or if they come they are turned into pleasure. And death itself, which for you is the end of life, is for us merely its beginning,—t…"-Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis
2. Slowness
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.62
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Milan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this … read more
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- philosophy
- france
"الألم هو المفهوم الجوهري لمذهب المتعة"-Milan Kundera, Slowness
"في المستقبل يكمن مصدر الخوف ، ومن تحرر من المستقبل لا يبقى لديه ما يخشاه"-Milan Kundera, Slowness
"هناك حالة يكون فيها الصوت الأشد ضعفاً مسموعاً وذلك عندما ينطق بأفكار تزعجنا."-Milan Kundera, Slowness
"Hay un vínculo secreto entre la lentitud y la memoria entre la velocidad y el olvido"-Milan Kundera, Slowness
3. Towards a Philosophy of Photography
By: Vilém Flusser , Hubertus Von Amelunxen , Anthony Mathews
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Media philosopher Vilém Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"For there is a general desire to be endlessly remembered and endlessly repeatable."-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
"Traditional images signify phenomena whereas technical (produced by an apparatus) images signify concepts."-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
"This apparently non-symbolic, objective character of technical images lead whoever looks at them to see them not as images but as windows"-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
"Texts do not signify the world, they signify the images they tear up. Hence, to decode texts, means to discover the images dignified by them"-Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
4. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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- philosophy
- france
"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
5. Ignorance
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned twenty… read more
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- philosophy
- france
6. Immortality
By: Milan Kundera
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out … read more
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- france
"The reign of imagology begins where history ends"-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"واحسرتاه! ففي حالة الحب يكفي القليل جداً لزرع اليأس في النفس!."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
"I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them."-Milan Kundera, Immortality
7. Identity
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which th… read more
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- philosophy
8. Amok Koşucusu
By: Stefan Zweig , Nafer Ermiş
3.99
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Amok Koşucusu doktor olarak yardıma ihtiyaç duyan bir insana el uzatmanın vicdani yükümlülüğüyle ke… read more
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9. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
10. The Fountainhead
By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff
3.88
Format: 704 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking ph… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
"This is pity,"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack"-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
11. Bartleby the Scrivener
By: Herman Melville
3.93
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more
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"I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener
12. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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13. Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond
By: Jacques Derrida , Rachel Bowlby , Anne Dufourmantelle
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
14. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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- philosophy
"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
15. Whatever
By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more
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- philosophy
- france
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
16. 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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17. The World of Yesterday
By: Stefan Zweig , Harry Zohn
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expre… read more
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18. Silk
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more
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19. Le Consentement
By: Vanessa Springora
4.30
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Au milieu des années 1980, élevée par une mère divorcée, V. comble par la lecture le vide laissé pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
"Si las relaciones sexuales entre un adulto y un menor de quince años son ilegales, ¿por qué esa tolerancia cuando son obra del representante de una élite, un fotógrafo, un escritor, un cineasta o un …"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
"No, ese hombre no albergaba los mejores sentimientos. Ese hombre no era bueno. Era lo que aprendemos a temer desde niños: un ogro. Nuestro amor era un sueño tan potente que nada, ni una sola de las p…"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
"I would recall my mission in life - pleasuring men. That was my condition, my status. And so I would offer my services anew, with renewed zeal, and with a simulated conviction that I even managed to …"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
"What he loved more than anything was making love. Who could blame him? When it came to sex, I oscillated between feeling all-powerful and completely apathetic. Sometimes I was filled with a feeling o…"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
20. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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- france
"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
21. La mala costumbre
By: Alana S. Portero
4.55
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more
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"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre
22. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
23. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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- cultural
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
24. Le Mage du Kremlin
By: Giuliano da Empoli
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On l’appelait le « mage du Kremlin ». L’énigmatique Vadim Baranov fut metteur en scène puis product… read more
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- politics
- france
25. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
- history
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
26. Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych
By: Emilia Dłużewska
3.49
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Jeśli zastanawiacie się, czy nie powinniście iść do psychiatry, to prawdopodobnie powinniście. D… read more
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- nonfiction
"Żałuję innych wersji swojego życia, nawet tych, których nigdy nie chciałam i nadal nie chcę."-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych
"Życie z lękiem to brnięcie przez tor przeszkód, którego większość ludzi nie jest w stanie dostrzec."-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych
"Po prostu to, co w nas wyjątkowe, może zachwycać naszą mamę, ale dla badacza pozostaje bezużyteczne: nie da się na tej podstawie zbierać danych, określać częstotliwości ani wyciągać wniosków."-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych
"Jedną z najgorszych rzeczy, które wymyślily nasze przerośnięte mózgi, jest obsesja celowości. Ludziom wydaje się, że tłumaczenie skąd się biorą dzieci, to wyzwanie - spróbujcie wytłumaczyć, po co się…"-Emilia Dłużewska, Jak płakać w miejscach publicznych
27. Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
By: André Aciman
3.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, h… read more
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"It belongs to the past,"-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"Oh, but we do age. We don’t grow up."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"If I could, I would kiss your voice."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
"It's not death I refuse, but extinction."-André Aciman, Find Me (Call Me By Your Name, #2)
28. Toń
By: Ishbel Szatrawska
4.30
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Kiedy Eichmedien stały się Nakomiadami? Kiedy Rastenburg był Rastemborkiem i kiedy stał się Kętrzyn… read more
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29. Os engenheiros do caos
By: Giuliano da Empoli
4.25
Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition
Dans le monde de Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro et Matteo Salvini, chaque jour porte sa maladresse, s… read more
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- history
- politics
- france
- nonfiction
- sociology
30. Interventions 2020
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.58
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
« 55 % de ce volume figurait déjà dans la deuxième édition d'Interventions, parue en 2009. Cette tr… read more
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- politics
- france
- nonfiction
31. The Defeat of the Mind
By: Alain Finkielkraut
3.83
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
A passionate critique of Enlightenment—both in its contemporary invocation and its historical and c… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- france
- nonfiction
- sociology
