5 Best novels books like L'Été 80 by Marguerite Duras

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L'Été 80

By: Marguerite Duras

3.51

Format: 102 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"No começo do verão, Serge July me perguntou se eu considerava entre as coisas possíveis escrever u…

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Cover of L'Œuvre au noir by Marguerite Yourcenar

1. L'Œuvre au noir

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

En créant le personnage de Zénon, alchimiste et médecin du XVIe siècle, Marguerite Yourcenar, l'aut… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"On n'est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau. (La conversation à Innsbruck)"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"Le souvenir n'est qu'un regard posé de temps en temps sur des êtres devenus intérieurs,mais qui ne dépendent pas de la mémoire pour continuer d'exister."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

"L'homme est une entreprise qui a contre elle le temps, la nécessité, la fortune, et l'imbécile et toujours croissante primauté du nombre, dit plus posément le philosophe. Les hommes tueront l'homme. …"

-Marguerite Yourcenar, L'Œuvre au noir

Cover of The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, Christopher Prendergast, Mark Treharne

2. The Guermantes Way

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , Mark Treharne

4.27

Format: 619 pages, Paperback

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"She was not yet dead. But I was already alone."

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"و خواندن کتاب تو را خوش می‌آید، چون تخیل با توست"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"گاهی آدم چیزهای دور را بهتر از چیزهای نزدیک می‌شناسد"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

"You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!"

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

Cover of The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1) by Émile Zola

3. The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)

By: Émile Zola

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

La fortuna de los Rougon (1871) es la primera novela de la serie Les Rougon Macquart, de Emile Zola… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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4. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

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  • womens
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

Cover of The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de La Fayette

5. The Princesse de Clèves

By: Madame de La Fayette

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Paperback

This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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6. Short Talks

By: Anne Carson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poetry. In Anne Carson's SHORT TALKS the reader is bombarded with short prose poems that resound wi… read more

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7. Arv og miljø

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

At ingen av dere pa noe tidspunkt har spurt meg om min historie, har jeg opplevd og opplever jeg so… read more

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8. Returning to Reims

By: Didier Eribon , George Chauncey , None

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sex… read more

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9. Out Stealing Horses

By: Per Petterson , Anne Born

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I… read more

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10. Mannen som elsket Yngve (Jarle Klepp #1)

By: Tore Renberg

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Romanen handler om et stort dilemma for bokas hovedperson - en tenaring som gar i andreklassen i St… read more

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11. The Virgin and the Gipsy

By: D.H. Lawrence

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The Virgin and the Gipsy was discovered in France after D. H. Lawrence's death in 1930. Immediately… read more

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12. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
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13. Good Morning, Midnight

By: Jean Rhys

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“As sharp and lucent and alarming as a piece of broken crystal.”― Deborah Eisenberg, author of Your… read more

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  • womens
  • novels
  • france
  • fiction
"Quite like old times,' the room says."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"And then the days came when I was alone."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"I want more of this feeling - fire and wings."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"Saved, rescued, but not quite so good as new..."

-Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

Cover of Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3) by Deborah Levy

14. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

By: Deborah Levy

4.29

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more

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  • womens
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

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15. In the Country of Others

By: Leïla Slimani

3.76

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."

-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others

"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."

-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others

Cover of The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy

16. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

By: Deborah Levy

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more

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  • womens
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Cover of Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2) by Leïla Slimani

17. Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)

By: Leïla Slimani

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of 17. roman by Dag Solstad

18. 17. roman

By: Dag Solstad

3.77

Format: 153 pages, Hardcover

"17. roman" er en oppfølger av protagonisten Bjørn Hansen fra "Ellevte roman, bok atten", som har e… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

19. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

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  • womens
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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20. L'Été 80

By: Marguerite Duras

3.51

Format: 102 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"No começo do verão, Serge July me perguntou se eu considerava entre as coisas possíveis escrever u… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • womens
  • novels
Cover of Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán

21. Clean

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more

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"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean

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4.03

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4.27

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3.75

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4.13

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3.58

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Isabela Figueiredo

4.28

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