6 must-read philosophy books like Kurmacanın Kıyıları by Jacques Rancière

Cover of Kurmacanın Kıyıları by Jacques Rancière

Kurmacanın Kıyıları

By: Jacques Rancière

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

On le sait depuis Aristote : ce qui distingue la fiction de l'expérience ordinaire, ce n'est pas un…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Kurmacanın Kıyıları by Jacques Rancière , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton

1. How to Read Literature

By: Terry Eagleton

3.69

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nurser… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Baa Baa Black Sheep’ makes Marx’s Capital look like Mary Poppins ."

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

"That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature."

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

"It is always reassuring to discover that great writers are as fallible as oneself. W.B. Yeats once failed to obtain an academic post in Dublin because he misspelt the word ‘professor’ on his applicat…"

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

"The most uninspired form of criticism simply tells the story of a work in different words. Some students imagine they are writing criticism when for the most part they are simply paraphrasing a text,…"

-Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

Cover of Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco

2. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

By: Umberto Eco

4.15

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods Umberto Eco shares with us his Secret Life as a reader―his love… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety th…"

-Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

"Her ne olursa olsun, kurmaca yapıtlar okumaktan vazgeçmeyeceğiz, çünkü onlarda yaşamımıza bir anlam verecek formülü aramaktayız. Sonuçta, yaşamımız süresince, bize neden dünyaya geldiğimizi ve yaşadı…"

-Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Cover of The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, Richard Miller

3. The Pleasure of the Text

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Miller

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin, Rodney Livingstone, Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, None, Howard Eiland, Thomas Y. Levin

4. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

5. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • philosophy
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

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6. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

Cover of Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, George Bird

7. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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Cover of The Charterhouse of Parma by Robert Andrew Parker, Richard Howard, Stendhal, Arthur Schurig

8. The Charterhouse of Parma

By: Robert Andrew Parker , Richard Howard , Stendhal , Arthur Schurig

3.79

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about t… read more

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"Mutluluğu uzaklarda aramaya kalkmanın ne anlamı var, işte burada, elimin altında!"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Hay que confesar que había días en que la condesa no dirigía la palabra a nadie; era vista paseando bajo los altos castaños, hundida en sombríos ensueños; era demasiado inteligente para no sentir a v…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"Men siden året 1635, da Milano-provinsen ble underlagt spanjolene, disse tause, mistenksomme, hovmodige herrer som alltid fryktet opprør, hadde livsgleden vært borte. Folk tok etter herskernes livsfo…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

"El lejano sonido de la campana de un pueblecito escondido bajo los árboles conmueve nuestra imaginación. Estos sones que las aguas transportan dulcificándolos adquieren un tinte de dulce melancolía y…"

-Robert Andrew Parker, The Charterhouse of Parma

9. The Question of Palestine

By: None

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most re… read more

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10. Resurrection

By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude

4.00

Format: None pages,

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more

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11. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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12. The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

3.86

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more

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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"

-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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13. The Pearl

By: John Steinbeck

3.54

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf be… read more

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"What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"In the surface of the great pearl he could see dream forms."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

"We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins."

-John Steinbeck, The Pearl

14. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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15. Regarding the Pain of Others

By: Susan Sontag

3.28

Format: 5 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more

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16. Amulet

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more

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17. The Open Work

By: Umberto Eco , David Robey , None

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Workremains significant f… read more

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18. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

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19. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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20. The Possession

By: Annie Ernaux

3.75

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can … read more

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"The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met."

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

"Writing has been a way to save that which is no longer my reality – a sensation seizing me from head to foot, in the streets – but has become ''the possession,'’ a period of time, circumscribed and c…"

-Annie Ernaux, The Possession

Cover of Kurmacanın Kıyıları by Jacques Rancière

21. Kurmacanın Kıyıları

By: Jacques Rancière

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

On le sait depuis Aristote : ce qui distingue la fiction de l'expérience ordinaire, ce n'est pas un… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

7 must-read nonfiction books like Kurmacanın Kıyıları by Jacques Rancière

Transform Your Habits

How to Read Literature

Terry Eagleton

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Pleasure of the Text

Roland Barthes , Richard Miller

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

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5 Top womens books like A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux

Transform Your Habits

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Things I Don't Want to Know

Deborah Levy

4.09

Transform Your Habits

A Girl's Story

Annie Ernaux

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Inseparable

Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

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