The Tidings of the Trees
By: Wolfgang Hilbig
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here …
Want to Read $ 8.99"Oh, how I've envied the lives of those who could spend life sitting down. A place to sit, a place to sit! I'd lament, circling my empty chair."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
"Normality was normal because it had lost its stories ... only when the mask of normality was torn off did reasons for stories exist once again."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
"I've watched these waves of writing rush back and forth, though Waller, along the lines of the paper, like thoughts that wrote and instantly erased themselves. And in the lower margins, forgetfulness seemed to toss the fleeting eddy of its signature upon the empty pages."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
"Lacking actual stories, as often as I could I've let this plight stand in for the missing material. Now the whole thing has so exhausted me that in all seriousness I'd need a new biography in order to wriggle out from the rough drafts of my non-authorship. For these drafts have become the only ground on which I can still move."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
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1. Religio Medici / Urne-Buriall
By: Stephen Greenblatt , Thomas Browne , Ramie Targoff
4.17
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English a coiner of words and spinner of p… read more
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"We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. ’Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world …"-Stephen Greenblatt, Religio Medici / Urne-Buriall
"If there be any among those common objects of hatred which I can safely say I doe contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, vertue and religion, the multitude, that numerous piece of mo…"-Stephen Greenblatt, Religio Medici / Urne-Buriall
2. Complete Plays
By: Sarah Kane , David Greig
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When Sarah Kane's first play, Blasted, was staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1995 it was… read more
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3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. The Dead
By: James Joyce
3.99
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more
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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."-James Joyce, The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pareció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"-James Joyce, The Dead
5. La lucina
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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6. Las batallas en el desierto
By: José Emilio Pacheco
4.13
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A novella depicts the harsh reality of life in urban Mexico and the tragedy of childhood innocence … read more
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"Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
"Querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoníaco es el odio."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
"Qué estupidez meterme en un lío que pude haber evitado con sólo resistirme a mi imbécil declaración de amor.Todo pasó como pasan los discos en la sinfonola."-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto
7. A Strangeness in My Mind
By: Orhan Pamuk , Ekin Oklap
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
A Strangeness In My Mindis a novel Orhan Pamuk has worked on for six years. It is the story of boza… read more
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8. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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9. The Aesthetics of Resistance, Vol. 1
By: Fredric Jameson , Joachim Neugroschel , Peter Weiss
3.75
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering work… read more
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10. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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11. Jagannath
By: Karin Tidbeck
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition
Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly … read more
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12. Gathering Evidence
By: Thomas Bernhard
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an e… read more
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13. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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14. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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15. Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată
By: Max Blecher
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
,,Ceea ce-l inrudeste structural pe Blecher cu Kafka, cu Bruno Schulz sau cu Robert Walser e mai al… read more
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16. Malone Dies
By: Samuel Beckett
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett's English translation in 1956, Malon… read more
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17. Molloy
By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles
4.04
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more
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"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
18. Trieste
By: Daša Drndić
4.00
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
Haya Tedeschi sits alone in Gorizia, north-eastern Italy, surrounded by a basket of photographs and… read more
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19. These Possible Lives
By: Fleur Jaeggy , None
4.25
Format: 512 pages, ebook
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers … read more
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20. Zone
By: Mathias Énard , Charlotte Mandell
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Serv… read more
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22. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
23. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
24. Naustet
By: Jon Fosse
3.83
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Tre dagar ein sommar utspeler det seg ei trekanthistorie mellom eg-personen, barndomskameraten Knut… read more
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"Eg går ikke ut lenger, ei uro er kommen over meg, og eg går ikkje ut."-Jon Fosse, Naustet
25. 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
26. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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27. The Faces
By: Tove Ditlevsen
3.92
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
It's Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming incr… read more
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"...and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not."-Tove Ditlevsen, The Faces
28. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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29. The Water Statues
By: Fleur Jaeggy
3.49
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar b… read more
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"Ich war dermaßen glücklich, dass ich mich aus Versehen in einer Mauer spiegelte, die in der schönen Jahreszeit glänzte, mein Auge lachte im Frühlingslicht, und das Licht spiegelte sich in den lachend…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Er verließ seinen Vater, Witwer seit wenigen Stunden, um, wie er sagte, "Statuen kaufen" zu gehen, und dabei schien er zu scherzen. Er war den figürlichen Nachbildungen des Schmerzes und der Ruhe sch…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
"Ich habe viel Zeit in den Kellergewölben verbracht, nicht aus Überdruß an der Sonne oder plein air, ich verlor nur die Kontrolle über die Stunden und über das Leben, wenn ich mich so ausdrücken darf;…"-Fleur Jaeggy, The Water Statues
30. The Tidings of the Trees
By: Wolfgang Hilbig
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Where once was a beautiful wood now stands a desolate field smothered in ash and garbage, and here … read more
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"Oh, how I've envied the lives of those who could spend life sitting down. A place to sit, a place to sit! I'd lament, circling my empty chair."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
"Normality was normal because it had lost its stories ... only when the mask of normality was torn off did reasons for stories exist once again."-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
"I've watched these waves of writing rush back and forth, though Waller, along the lines of the paper, like thoughts that wrote and instantly erased themselves. And in the lower margins, forgetfulness…"-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
"Lacking actual stories, as often as I could I've let this plight stand in for the missing material. Now the whole thing has so exhausted me that in all seriousness I'd need a new biography in order t…"-Wolfgang Hilbig, The Tidings of the Trees
31. A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire
By: Yuri Herrera
3.77
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company―the … read more
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