The Interim
By: Wolfgang Hilbig
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Comic and terrifying and profound.” ―Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books of 2021) C. is a wre…
Want to Read $ 9.49"C. was reminded of another little significant-seeming episode: Once he’d had to spend a night in jail in A.—the main town of the district he came from—and realized right away that he’d never get a single minute’s sleep in the hole they’d locked him up in. His cell was probably used as a drunk tank; traces of the catastrophes attendant to the drying-out process were visible all around… In the GDR, thought C., succumbing to alcohol still made for indelible images, so it was not entirely unreasonable for writers and artists to spend their time drinking. The cell whose door slammed behind him consisted of several cubic yards of bad smells, and contained a cot, a broken-down chair, and a cracked toilet that wouldn’t stop running and stood in a puddle of sludge. On the wall behind the cot, a broad swath of vomit trailed down, already dried; the dim light of a 25 watt bulb showed the walls covered from top to bottom with unidentifiable filth—possibly human excrement—spatters of blood, and countless inscriptions: scratched messages and addresses. It was enough reading material to last him all night. One of the first slogans he read stated straight out: Long live capitalism."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Interim
"C. was reminded of another little significant-seeming episode: Once he’d had to spend a night in jail in A.—the main town of the district he came from—and realized right away that he’d never get a single minute’s sleep in the hole they’d locked him up in. His cell was probably used as a drunk tank; traces of the catastrophes attendant to the drying-out process were visible all around… In the GDR, thought C., succumbing to alcohol still made for indelible images, so it was not entirely unreasonable for writers and artists to spend their time drinking. The cell whose door slammed behind him consisted of several cubic yards of bad smells, and contained a cot, a broken-down chair, and a cracked toilet that wouldn’t stop running and stood in a puddle of sludge. On the wall behind the cot, a broad swath of vomit trailed down, already dried; the dim light of a 25 watt bulb showed the walls covered from top to bottom with unidentifiable filth—possibly human excrement—spatters of blood, and countless inscriptions: scratched messages and addresses. It was enough reading material to last him all night. One of the first slogans he read stated straight out: Long live capitalism."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Interim
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By: Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Paperback
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2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
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3. La carte et le territoire
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.95
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By: Antonio Moresco
3.65
Format: 167 pages, ebook
Lontano da tutto, tra i boschi, in un vecchio borgo abbandonato e deserto, un uomo vive in totale s… read more
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By: Stanley Elkin , William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ben Flesh is one of the men "who made America look like America, who made America famous." He colle… read more
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6. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
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By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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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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3.72
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10. Solenoid
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3.59
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3.89
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
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4.48
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3.11
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4.12
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4.14
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3.67
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3.97
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4.07
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4.16
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3.81
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29. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories
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3.36
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30. The Interim
By: Wolfgang Hilbig
3.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Comic and terrifying and profound.” ―Rachel Kushner, The Guardian (Best Books of 2021) C. is a wre… read more
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31. Blue Lard
By: Vladimir Sorokin
3.76
Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition
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