Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez
By: Franco Moretti
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“Take Faust , what is it? A ‘tragedy’, as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collecti…
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1. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
By: Fredric Jameson , Stanley Fish , Stefano Velotti
4.00
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”pos… read more
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"Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and…"-Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
2. Robinson Crusoe
By: Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three dec… read more
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"For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. "-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"On a horse? I was married on a horse? Gillian looked like she could kill the groom"-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
"for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of."-Virginia Woolf, Robinson Crusoe
3. The Civil War in France
By: Karl Marx
3.67
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the titl… read more
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4. The Theory of the Novel
By: György Lukács , Anna Bostock
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Georg Lukacs wrote The Theory of the Novelin 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Ro… read more
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5. De Profundis and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde , Hesketh Pearson
4.37
Format: None pages,
This collection contains, too, many examples of that humorous and epigrammatic genius which capture… read more
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6. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
By: Jonathan D. Culler
3.91
Format: 20 pages,
What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is L… read more
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7. El baile
By: Irène Némirovsky , Gemma Moral Bartolomé
3.67
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
Autora de la recién descubierta Suite francesa, publicada póstumamente y aclamada por la crítica y … read more
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8. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
9. Zeytindağı
By: Falih Rıfkı Atay
4.16
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
"Büyük Harbi" ve sonuçlarını Falih Rıfkı'nın özgün anlatımı ile yeniden "öğrendim" diyebilirim. Ger… read more
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"Yalnız Kudüs'te dilencinin çerçevesi ihtişamlıdır: Medine, dini mallaştırmış ve maddeleştirmiş bir Asya pazarı idi. Kudüs dini oyunlaştırmış bir Garp tiyatrosudur."-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, Trakya'dan Erzurum'a doğru koca gövdesini yatırmış, memelerini sömürge ve milliyetlerin ağzına teslim etmiş, artık sütü kanı ile karışık emilen bir sağmal idi."-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Kudüs kelimesi Hıristiyanlığı hatıra getirir. Fakat ne Kudüs'te, ne de Filistin'de Hıristiyanlık diye bir mesele yoktur. Kudüs'ün Hıristiyanlığı, Ortodoks Petersburg, Protestan Berlin, dinsiz Paris, …"-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
"Ölüm sabahları, herkes birbiriyle ürkerek ve ürpererek konuşur. Fakat ertesi güne kadar her şey unutulup gitti. Müse'nin mersiyesini ilhanx hatırlar mısınız? Paris'te her şey unutulmak için eğer on b…"-Falih Rıfkı Atay, Zeytindağı
10. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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11. A Universal History of Iniquity
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals… read more
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12. Gecede
By: Leylâ Erbil
4.09
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
Leyla Erbil'in oykulerinin ve romanlarinin odaginda hep bir kabus cekirdegi vardir. Bu cekirdek, ok… read more
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13. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
14. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
15. Putas asesinas
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
<>se narra un viaje a Acapulco que se convierte paulatinamente en un des-censo a los infiernos. En … read more
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16. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
17. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
By: Gerald Graff , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
"They Say / I Say"shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most impor… read more
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18. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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19. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
20. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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21. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
22. I baffi
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.73
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more
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23. A Shining
By: Jon Fosse
3.49
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more
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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"-Jon Fosse, A Shining
24. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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25. Historia de la eternidad
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.02
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
El trabajo que da título a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negación, y examina… read more
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26. Convalescenza
By: Han Kang
3.77
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Una donna cerca risposta agli interrogativi che la morte della sorella ha lasciato insoluti: perché… read more
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27. The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
By: Bert Hölldobler
4.49
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular por… read more
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28. Exit reality: Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia
By: Valentina Tanni
4.44
Format: 212 pages, ebook
«Internet è un'entità aliena», annunciava David Bowie nel 1999: oggi la profezia si è avverata, e i… read more
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29. Modern Epic: The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez
By: Franco Moretti
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
“Take Faust , what is it? A ‘tragedy’, as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collecti… read more
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30. The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture
By: Mark Bould
3.57
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies to Fast and Furious, how climate anxiety permeates our cul… read more
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