Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
By: Pascal Bruckner
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How happiness became mandatory―and why we should reject the demand to "be happy" Happiness today i…
Want to Read $ 15.37"How’s it going?"-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
"How’s it going?"-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
"We now have every right except the right not to be blissful."-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
"We now have every right except the right not to be blissful."-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
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1. Eldorado
By: Laurent Gaudé
3.81
Format: 237 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Gardien de la citadelle Europe, le commandant Salvatore Piracci navigue depuis vingt ans au large d… read more
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- france
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"Le monde est trop grand pour mes pieds mais je poursuivrai."-Laurent Gaudé, Eldorado
"Aucune frontière n'est facile à franchir. Il faut forcément abandonner quelque chose derrière soi."-Laurent Gaudé, Eldorado
"Μια γυναίκα έρχεται σπίτι σου και σου ζητάει κάτι με όλο της το είναι. Κανείς δε θα μπορούσε να κάνει κάτι διαφορετικό από αυτό που έκανες. Γιατί η θέληση σε κάνει όμορφο, κι απέναντι στην ομορφιά, ο…"-Laurent Gaudé, Eldorado
"Μόνο αφότου έφυγε ο κυβερνήτης, ο Άντζελο συνειδητοποίησε ότι δεν τον είχε ρωτήσει πού πήγαινε, ούτε για πόσο καιρό. Ήθελε σχεδόν να τρέξει πίσω του, αλλά άλλαξε γνώμη. Αυτές οι ερωτήσεις, κατά βάθος…"-Laurent Gaudé, Eldorado
2. 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
3. Farewell Waltz
By: Milan Kundera , None
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom h… read more
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4. When Nietzsche Wept
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
A richly evocative novel set in 19th-century Vienna on the eve of the birth of psychoanalysis. The … read more
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- philosophy
- psychology
5. Les nouvelles solitudes
By: Marie-France Hirigoyen
4.02
Format: 424 pages,
La autora del Acoso moral publica un nuevo libro acerca de los nuevos conceptos de soledad. En toda… read more
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6. Status Anxiety
By: Alain de Botton
3.90
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
“There's no writer alive like de Botton” ( Chicago Tribune ), and now this internationally heralded… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- society
- sociology
- self help
"Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
"Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference."-Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
7. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
By: José Saramago , Giovanni Pontiero
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow.… read more
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8. Foe
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more
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9. Life is Elsewhere
By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kun… read more
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10. Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
By: Stefan Zweig , Mahmure Kahraman
3.90
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Zweig bu novellasında bir kadının yaşamını bütünüyle değiştiren yirmi dört saatlik deneyimini anlat… read more
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"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Envejecer no significa otra cosa que no tener miedo al pasado"-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute ceux qui se portent à leur secours."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
11. La utilidad de lo inútil: Manifiesto
By: Nuccio Ordine , None , None
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
En esta obra se repasan las opiniones de filosofos y escritores sobre la importancia de seguir tute… read more
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12. The Palace of Dreams
By: Ismail Kadare
4.00
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
A sinister totalitarian ministry called the Palace of Dreams recruits Mark-Alem to sort, classify, … read more
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13. Novecento. Un monologo
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more
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14. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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15. A Man's Place
By: Annie Ernaux
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place
16. Serotonin
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more
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"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
17. A Woman's Story
By: Annie Ernaux
4.23
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more
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- france
- french literature
"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story
18. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
By: Claire Keegan
3.99
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more
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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
19. Vengeance Is Mine
By: Marie NDiaye
2.86
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide … read more
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20. Terápiás hazugságok
By: Irvin D. Yalom
4.07
Format: None pages, None
This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9789633551332. A szerző eddigi írásaihoz képest v… read more
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"Nothing's ever worse than to go unnoticed through life."-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
"Do you remember how glad Gepetto was when Pinocchio first danced without strings?"-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
"It's almost impossible for those who have had an intimate relationship to return to a formal one."-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
"How wonderful it was to be loved so much by that selfless and magnificent man. And how awful, unbearable – here Carol cried even louder – to never see him again, to lose him forever!"-Irvin D. Yalom, Terápiás hazugságok
21. Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
By: Pascal Bruckner
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How happiness became mandatory―and why we should reject the demand to "be happy" Happiness today i… read more
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- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- france
- essays
- french literature
- society
- sociology
- self help
"How’s it going?"-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
"We now have every right except the right not to be blissful."-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
"Seeking to eliminate pain nonetheless puts it at the heart of the system. As a result, today we suffer from not wanting to suffer just as one can make oneself ill by trying to be perfectly healthy. F…"-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
"To happiness in the strict sense, we may prefer pleasure, as a brief moment of ecstasy stolen in the course of things, gaiety, the lighthearted drunkenness that accompanies life's development, and es…"-Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
