9 must-read philosophy books like Tarkovski by Slavoj Žižek

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Tarkovski

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.71

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Zizek için Tarkovski'yi ilginç kılan onun filmlerindeki özgün biçimdir. Tarkovski maddi unsurları z…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Tarkovski by Slavoj Žižek , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. 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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2. Mendel el de los libros

By: Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou

4.00

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Escrito en 1929, Mendel el de los libros narra la trágica historia de un excéntrico librero de viej… read more

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"لا ننتج الكتب إلا لكي نبقى على صلة بالبشر فيما وراء الموت فنزود بذلك عن أنفسنا ضد العدو الألد للحياة ، ضد الزمن الذي يمضي ، ضد النسيان"

-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros

"Los libros sólo se escriben para, por encima del propio aliento, unir a los seres humanos, y así defendernos frente al inexorable reverso de toda existencia: la fugacidad y el olvido"

-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros

"...avrei dovuto sapere che i libri si fanno solo per legarsi agli uomini al di là del nostro breve respiro e difendersi così dall'inesorabile avversario di ogni vita: la caducità e l'oblio."

-Stefan Zweig, Mendel el de los libros

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3. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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  • philosophy
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

Cover of Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

4. Ecce Homo

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to c… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Vita d'un uomo - Tutte le poesie by Giuseppe Ungaretti

5. Vita d'un uomo - Tutte le poesie

By: Giuseppe Ungaretti

3.89

Format: None pages,

Voluto dallo stesso autore nel 1969, il volume raccoglie sotto il significativo titolo di Vita d'un… read more

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6. Amok Koşucusu

By: Stefan Zweig , Nafer Ermiş

3.99

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Amok Koşucusu doktor olarak yardıma ihtiyaç duyan bir insana el uzatmanın vicdani yükümlülüğüyle ke… read more

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7. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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8. Le Colonel Chabert

By: Honoré de Balzac

3.59

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Colonel Chabert est supposé avoir été tué sur le champ d'honneur dans l'une des batailles de Nap… read more

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"Morālās ciešanas, kas pārspēj fiziskās, allaž izraisa mazāku žēlumu, jo cilvēka acij nav saskatāmas."

-Honoré de Balzac, Le Colonel Chabert

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9. Martin Eden

By: Jack London , Andrew Sinclair

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The semiautobiographical Martin Edenis the most vital and original character Jack London ever creat… read more

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Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

10. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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

11. 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

12. The Anti-Christ

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , H.L. Mencken

3.68

Format: 420 pages,

Monumento de escandalo para idiotas, arma arrojadiza en manos torpes, o cumbre postuma del inquieta… read more

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13. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

By: Scott McCloud

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more

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14. The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio , G.H. McWilliam

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the … read more

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15. A Country Doctor's Notebook

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild… read more

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16. Memoirs of a Madman

By: Gustave Flaubert , Andrew Brown , Germaine Greer

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

A captivating and evocative work, Memoirs of a Madmanis one of Flaubert's earliest writings, and fo… read more

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17. Watermark

By: Joseph Brodsky , None

4.08

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, … read more

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"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is... In any case, I always thought that if the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water, the water was bound to refle…"

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

18. Poems and Fragments

By: Sappho , Stanley Lombardo , Pamela Gordon

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th c… read more

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19. El banquero anarquista

By: Fernando Pessoa

3.77

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Vertebrado casi a manera de diálogo socrático inverso. "El banquero anarquista", del poeta portugué… read more

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  • philosophy
"...karanlıkları görmek, karanlıklardan ışığı almaktır."

-Fernando Pessoa, El banquero anarquista

20. Bir Çöküşün Öyküsü

By: Stefan Zweig , Regaip Minareci

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Bu son derece carpici cokus oykusu, XV. Louis doneminde Fransiz sarayinda epey etkili olmus aristok… read more

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21. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

Cover of L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra by Michael Bible

22. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

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23. UFO 78

By: Wu Ming

4.05

Format: 506 pages, Paperback

Il tramonto degli anni Settanta, la musica e la politica, la repressione e la lotta armata, le cont… read more

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"Lucca. Una città che per calcolarne il perimetro moltiplichi pi greco per due pisciate"

-Wu Ming, UFO 78

"L'intervistato pare accigliarsi, è giusto un lampo, si potrebbe isolare solo col fermo-immagine, ma a quel tempo nelle case non c'erano videoregistratori, la tivù era un flusso inarrestabile, fotogra…"

-Wu Ming, UFO 78

Cover of La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite by Byung-Chul Han

24. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia by Byung-Chul Han

25. Infocracia: La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.11

Format: 67 pages, Kindle Edition

Die Digitalisierung schreitet unaufhaltsam voran. Wir sind benommen vom Kommunikations- und Informa… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han

26. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.05

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Tarkovski by Slavoj Žižek

27. Tarkovski

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.71

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Zizek için Tarkovski'yi ilginç kılan onun filmlerindeki özgün biçimdir. Tarkovski maddi unsurları z… read more

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The Princesse de Clèves

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3.00

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Jean Racine

4.12

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3.84

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