9 Best poetry books like Canto alla durata by Peter Handke

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Canto alla durata

By: Peter Handke

4.09

Format: 72 pages, ebook

Prendendo spunto da Goethe, «maestro del dire essenziale», Handke propone in questo poemetto una su…

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1. Tropismes

By: Nathalie Sarraute

3.66

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

« Les tropismes, a expliqué l'auteur, "ce sont des mouvements indéfinissables, qui glissent très ra… read more

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  • poetry
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2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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3. Zama

By: Antonio di Benedetto

3.99

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Publicada por primera vez en 1956, Zama está considerada de manera unánime como una de las grandes … read more

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"The past was a small notebook, much scribbled-upon, that I had somehow mislaid."

-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama

"Como un dios no puede crear dioses, pensó crear al hombre, para que este los creara."

-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama

"... but she reckoned that in larger cities people were less alone, for they didn't all know each other so well."

-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama

"Me pregunté, no por qué vivía, sino por qué había vivido. Supuse que por la espera y quise saber si aún esperaba algo. Me pareció que sí. Siempre se espera más"

-Antonio di Benedetto, Zama

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4. Ararat

By: Louise Glück

4.12

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry … read more

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  • poetry
"To say I’m without fear– it wouldn’t be true. I’m afraid of sickness, humiliation. Like anyone, I have my dreams. But I’ve learned to hide them, to protect myself from fulfillment: all happiness attr…"

-Louise Glück, Ararat

"As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to …"

-Louise Glück, Ararat

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5. Identity

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which th… read more

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6. 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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7. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

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  • poetry

8. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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  • german literature

9. Thank You, Fog

By: None

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

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  • poetry
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10. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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Paul Hammond

11. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

12. The Brooklyn Follies

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn t… read more

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13. 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

14. Poesie: 1974-1992

By: Patrizia Cavalli

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Questo libro riunisce i due precedenti volumetti di Patrizia Cavalli (Le mie poesie non cambieranno… read more

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15. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

16. Summer Blonde

By: Adrian Tomine

3.98

Format: 304 pages,

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17. Sleepwalk and Other Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

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18. Letter to His Father

By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more

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19. Cento poesie d'amore a Ladyhawke

By: Michele Mari

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

Esordio poetico di uno dei migliori scrittori italiani in circolazione, questo libro e un concentra… read more

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20. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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21. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more

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22. The Agony of Eros

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.93

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more

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  • german literature
"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

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23. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase

By: Anna Pacheco

4.14

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more

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24. Marigold and Rose

By: Louise Glück

3.65

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from Nobel Prize laureate Louise Glück. … read more

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  • poetry
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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. No-cosas: Quiebras del mundo de hoy

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.85

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

«Hoy estamos en la transición de la era de las cosas a la era de las no-cosas. No son las cosas, si… read more

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27. Les Planches courbes

By: Yves Bonnefoy

3.44

Format: 138 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Salué dès sa publication en octobre 2001 comme l'un des livres majeurs d'Yves Bonnefoy, « Les Planc… read more

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  • poetry
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28. Vita meravigliosa

By: Patrizia Cavalli

4.16

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Fosse vissuta sei o sette secoli fa, nelle terre umbre dov’è nata, Patrizia Cavalli sarebbe stata s… read more

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  • poetry
"Tenersi all'apparenza, forse descrivere / soltanto cose in mutua tenerezza."

-Patrizia Cavalli, Vita meravigliosa

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29. Canto alla durata

By: Peter Handke

4.09

Format: 72 pages, ebook

Prendendo spunto da Goethe, «maestro del dire essenziale», Handke propone in questo poemetto una su… read more

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30. Cuarto de hotel (Spanish Edition)

By: Coral Bracho

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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