10 Top nonfiction books like La poesía no se consume by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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La poesía no se consume

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

3.74

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Casi cuatro décadas después de su muerte, aparece, en el sótano del Instituto Italiano de Cultura d…

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1. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

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"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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2. The Little Virtues

By: Dick Davis , Natalia Ginzburg

4.10

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of h… read more

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"It seemed to me that I had discovered how people in books should be—funny and at the same time sad."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"And perhaps even for learning to walk in worn-out shoes, it is as well to have dry, warm feet when we are children."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

"Y los detalles se gastan, se echan a perder si uno los lleva consigo sin utilizarlos durante mucho tiempo. No sólo los detalles sino todo, todas las ocurrencias y las ideas."

-Dick Davis, The Little Virtues

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3. Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

By: None , Alonso Zamora Vicente , Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

3.71

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Valle-Inclán escribió, en 1920, esta obra, con la que quedó inaugurada una nueva manera de ver la r… read more

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"España, en su concepción religiosa, es una tribu del Centro de África."

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

"En España podrá faltar el pan, pero el ingenio y el buen humor no se acaban"

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

"Mi nombre es Máximo Estrella. Mi seudónimo, Mala Estrella. Tengo el honor de no ser Académico."

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

"El periodismo es travesura, lo mismo que la política. Son el mismo círculo en diferentes espacios."

-None, Luces de bohemia: Esperpento

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4. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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Cover of Six Memos For The Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

5. Six Memos For The Next Millennium

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 656 pages,

Six Memos for the Millenniumis a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at … read more

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6. La familia de Pascual Duarte

By: Camilo José Cela , Alan Hoyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Family of Pascual Duarte is the story of Pascual Duarte--a Spanish peasant born into a brutal w… read more

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7. La bella estate

By: Cesare Pavese

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

"A quei tempi era sempre festa. Bastava uscire di casa e attraversare la strada, per diventare come… read more

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8. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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9. Practicalities

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

"It's the women who upset the applecart. Between themselves they talk only about the practicalities… read more

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10. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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11. Nada

By: Edith Grossman , Carmen Laforet

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosel… read more

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"You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make"

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"... siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"el interés y la estimación que inspire una persona son dos cosas que no siempre van unidas."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"Su charla insubstancial me parecía el rumor de lluvia que se escucha con gusto y con pereza."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

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12. Le Consentement

By: Vanessa Springora

4.30

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Au milieu des années 1980, élevée par une mère divorcée, V. comble par la lecture le vide laissé pa… read more

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"Si las relaciones sexuales entre un adulto y un menor de quince años son ilegales, ¿por qué esa tolerancia cuando son obra del representante de una élite, un fotógrafo, un escritor, un cineasta o un …"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"No, ese hombre no albergaba los mejores sentimientos. Ese hombre no era bueno. Era lo que aprendemos a temer desde niños: un ogro. Nuestro amor era un sueño tan potente que nada, ni una sola de las p…"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"I would recall my mission in life - pleasuring men. That was my condition, my status. And so I would offer my services anew, with renewed zeal, and with a simulated conviction that I even managed to …"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

"What he loved more than anything was making love. Who could blame him? When it came to sex, I oscillated between feeling all-powerful and completely apathetic. Sometimes I was filled with a feeling o…"

-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement

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13. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

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"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

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14. Les enfants endormis

By: Anthony Passeron

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Quarante ans après la mort de son oncle Désiré, Anthony Passeron décide d'interroger le passé famil… read more

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15. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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16. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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17. What Are You Going Through

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.74

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more

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"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

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18. Yeguas exhaustas

By: Bibiana Collado Cabrera

4.18

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Una madre, con los dedos rígidos de triar naranjas en un almacén y limpiar pisos de vacaciones de o… read more

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"El autoodio, más o menos matizado, fue nuestra gran herencia"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Como todos sabéis, la educación femenina es esencialmente masoquista"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Probablemente uno de los motivos por los que fui una niña lectora era porque tenía que llenar todas las horas en que mi madre trabajaba"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

"Crecer consistió en ir entendiendo los motivos por los que mi madre casi siempre estaba seria y triste. El principal de ellos era sencillo, sencillo y apabullante: estaba cansada. No cansada metafóri…"

-Bibiana Collado Cabrera, Yeguas exhaustas

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19. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: 5 pages, ebook

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more

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20. 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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21. Ensayo general

By: Milena Busquets

3.64

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Instantáneas de una vida. Un lienzo impresionista de momentos alegrías, dolor, recuerdos, anhelos…… read more

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22. Fuego la sed

By: María Sánchez

4.30

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

Un cuerpo habita un un cuerpo con sus circunstancias y su historia, en un lugar también con sus ci… read more

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Cover of En esta noche, en este mundo by Alejandra Pizarnik

23. En esta noche, en este mundo

By: Alejandra Pizarnik

4.17

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

La dura sensualidad y el profundo intimismo de Alejandra Pizarnik confluyen en esta selección de su… read more

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"- BUSCAR No es un verbo sino un vértigo. No indica acción. No quiere decir ir al encuentro de alguien sino yacer por que alguien no viene."

-Alejandra Pizarnik, En esta noche, en este mundo

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24. Cartas de desamor

By: Cesare Pavese

3.86

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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25. Anhelo de raíces

By: May Sarton

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

«En aquel primer fin de semana establecí el rito de la cena. Cuando me sentara a la mesa, tenía que… read more

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"Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change."

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

"In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates."

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

"I know that I myself have felt that prickling of the scalp that Emily Dickinson tells us is the sign of recognition before a true poem."

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

"Together they breathed deeply, like people who exaggerate their soul because they have no other riches.' May Sarton, quoting Jean Dominique"

-May Sarton, Anhelo de raíces

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26. Destellos de belleza

By: Jonas Mekas

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Destellos de belleza" ofrece una suerte de revisión caleidoscópica de la biografía de Jonas Mekas e… read more

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27. La poesía no se consume

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

3.74

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Casi cuatro décadas después de su muerte, aparece, en el sótano del Instituto Italiano de Cultura d… read more

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28. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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Cover of Frágiles: Cartas sobre la ansiedad y la esperanza en la nueva cultura by Remedios Zafra

29. Frágiles: Cartas sobre la ansiedad y la esperanza en la nueva cultura

By: Remedios Zafra

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Un retrato de la nueva cultura ansiosa del trabajo inmaterial y un intento de encontrarle una salid… read more

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Cover of Tiempos críticos: Escritos sobre artes, literatura y libertad (Spanish Edition) by George Orwell

30. Tiempos críticos: Escritos sobre artes, literatura y libertad (Spanish Edition)

By: George Orwell

4.67

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Una nueva selección de artículos y ensayos de George Orwell centrada en las artes y la literatura, … read more

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31. No entrar con llamas

By: Lidia Caro Leal

3.78

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

«No entrar con llamas» son cuatro semanas de sangre y calambres al mes. Son el muñeco de plástico d… read more

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5 best-selling literature books like Six Memos For The Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Transform Your Habits

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco

4.15

Transform Your Habits

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

4.15

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Six Memos For The Next Millennium

Italo Calvino

3.71

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4.25

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