Despre Franţa
By: Emil M. Cioran
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
„Venit din plaiuri primitive, din sub-lumea Valahiei, cu pesimismul tinereţii într-o civilizaţie ră…
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1. 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
"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
2. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more
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4. The Plague
By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert
4.02
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more
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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."-Albert Camus, The Plague
"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."-Albert Camus, The Plague
5. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
6. Doğunun Limanları
By: Saadet Özen , Amin Maalouf
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Adana'da ayaklanmalar olmustu. Kalabalik, Ermeni mahallesini yagmalamisti. Alti yil sonra cok daha… read more
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7. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
8. We
By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more
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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
9. A Happy Death
By: Albert Camus , Richard Howard , Jean Sarocchi
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel… read more
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- philosophy
10. Beneath the Wheel
By: Hermann Hesse , None
4.47
Format: 310 pages,
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheelor The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respec… read more
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- philosophy
11. 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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"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
12. Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
By: Max Blecher
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
,,Ceea ce-l inrudeste structural pe Blecher cu Kafka, cu Bruno Schulz sau cu Robert Walser e mai al… read more
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13. Sînt o babă comunistă!
By: Dan Lungu
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Romanul continua ,,experimentul de mentalitate" inceput de Dan Lungu cu Raiul gainilor- coborirea i… read more
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14. Lettre à un otage
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , None
3.88
Format: 588 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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15. Sonata Kreutzer. Moartea lui Ivan Ilici
By: Leo Tolstoy
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
Sonata Kreutzer, povestea unei gelozii care duce la crima, interzisa la vremea publicarii, face par… read more
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16. Un om sfârşit
By: Giovanni Papini , Ștefan Augustin Doinaș
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Romanul autobiografic "Un om sfirsit" este cea mai cunoscuta lucrare a lui Giovanni Papini. Cartea … read more
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18. Eseuri de duminica
By: Constantin Noica
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
33 de eseuri ,,duminicale", agreabile si usor de citit. Trecand cu gratie de la subiecte banale, ap… read more
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19. How to Cure a Fanatic
By: Amos Oz , None
4.00
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witness… read more
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20. Inocenții
By: Ioana Pârvulescu
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parerea editorului:Poate ca inocenta e varsta la care ar fi trebuit sa ramanem pentru a da un dram … read more
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21. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
22. The Words
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Bernard Frechtman
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau… read more
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23. A Confession
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.10
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in proc… read more
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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I united myself with my forefathers: the father, mother, and grandparents I loved. They and all my predecessors believed and lived, and they produced me."-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really live only when I feel him and seek Him"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
"Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must live for something, he would not live. If he does not see and recognize the illusory nature…"-Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
24. 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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"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
25. Elizabeth Finch
By: Julian Barnes
3.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more
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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch
26. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
By: Steven Levitsky
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more
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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
27. It Would Be Night in Caracas
By: Karina Sainz Borgo
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle … read more
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"Mientras redactaba la inscripción para su tumba, entendí que la primera muerte ocurre en el lenguaje, en ese acto de arrancar a los sujetos del presente para plantarlos en el pasado. Convertirlos en …"-Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas
28. Babel. La început a fost Cuvântul
By: Dan Alexe
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
„Originea limbajului a fascinat întotdeauna omenirea, în toate culturile. Cu toate astea, misterul … read more
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29. Knulp / Demian
By: Hermann Hesse
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Oameni precum Knulp "nu sunt, ce-i drept, folositori; în schimb, sunt mult mai puţin dăunători decâ… read more
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30. Idei ale timpului nostru
By: Constantin Noica
3.73
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Idei ale timpului nostru reprezintă un serial de opt episoade publicat de Constantin Noica în Român… read more
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31. Despre Franţa
By: Emil M. Cioran
3.86
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
„Venit din plaiuri primitive, din sub-lumea Valahiei, cu pesimismul tinereţii într-o civilizaţie ră… read more
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