Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
By: Susan Bernofsky
4.30
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century,…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Berlin Stories
By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky , Jochen Greven
3.82
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to j… read more
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- germany
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"Our car is constantly in motion. It is raining in the streets we glide through, and this constitutes one more added pleasantness. Some people find it frightfully agreeable to see that it is raining a…"-Robert Walser, Berlin Stories
3. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
By: Herman Melville , Maurice Sendak , Hershel Parker
3.63
Format: 495 pages, Hardcover
Initially dismissed as "a dead failure" and "a bad book," and declined by Melville's British publis… read more
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"Life is governed by chance, not wisdom."-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
"Eternally inexorable and unconcerned is Fate, a mere heartless trader in men’s joys and woes."-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
"For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in peril; well enough they know the causes of that peril;--nevertheless, the sea is the sea, and these …"-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
"for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that onc…"-Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
4. The Feast of the Goat
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman
4.33
Format: 475 pages, Paperback
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more
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"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"Într-o clasificare după merite, pe primul loc se află militarii. Îşi fac datoria, se ţin foarte puţin de intrigi, nu pierd timpul. Apoi, tăranii. (…) Urmează funcţionarii, întreprinzătorii, comercian…"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
5. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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- german literature
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6. The Walk
By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Walser's alternate, preferred version of his most famous tale. A pseudo-biographical "stroll" throu… read more
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7. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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- literature
8. 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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9. The Wings of the Dove
By: Henry James , Amy Bloom , Pierre A. Walker
3.51
Format: 235 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Set amid the splendor of L… read more
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10. Frost
By: Michael Hofmann , Thomas Bernhard
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, "Frost" is the story of a friendship between a young man … read more
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11. The Tanners
By: Robert Walser , W.G. Sebald , Susan Bernofsky , Jo Catling
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tanners, Robert Walser's amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for… read more
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12. 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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13. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (The Trilogy, #1-3)
By: Samuel Beckett
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Mol… read more
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14. Life & Times of Michael K
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. … read more
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"From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth ."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
"You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you."-J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
15. My Friends
By: Emmanuel Bove , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Emanuel Bove's first novel, My Friends, relates the story of Victor Baton, a wounded war veteran tr… read more
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16. The Cheap Eaters
By: Thomas Bernhard
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
In this short novel, a monomaniacal 'scientist' more or less deliberately alienates himself from so… read more
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17. The Assistant
By: Robert Walser , Susan Bernofsky , ناصر غیاثی
3.29
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling")… read more
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18. Flights
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more
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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
19. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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20. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
21. Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser
By: Susan Bernofsky
4.30
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century,… read more
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- biography memoir
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