L'ardore
By: Roberto Calasso
4.42
Format: 529 pages, Paperback
Qualcosa di immensamente remoto dall’oggi apparve più di tremila anni fa nell’India del Nord: il Ve…
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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
2. S. S. Proleterka
By: Alastair McEwen , Fleur Jaeggy
3.78
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Our fifteen-year-old protagonist and her distant, financially ruined, yet somehow beloved father, J… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
"Nothingness is the stuff of thought. Beings, autonomous voices, memories dredged up, following the lapping of the water. Nothingness is not empty."-Alastair McEwen, S. S. Proleterka
"Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part…"-Alastair McEwen, S. S. Proleterka
3. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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4. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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- philosophy
"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
5. Ancient Mystery Cults
By: Walter Burkert
3.75
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a l… read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
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6. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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7. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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- philosophy
8. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)
By: Philip K. Dick
3.44
Format: 220 pages,
VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more
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9. Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
By: Ralph Manheim , Henry Corbin
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jo… read more
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- nonfiction
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10. You Bright and Risen Angels
By: William T. Vollmann
4.40
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the st… read more
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11. Hygiène de l'assassin
By: Amélie Nothomb
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Pretextat Tach, prix Nobel de litterature, n'a plus que deux mois a vivre. Des journalistes du mond… read more
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12. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
By: Lydia Davis , Lucia Berlin , None
3.90
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin… read more
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13. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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14. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
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15. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize ho… read more
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16. Bel-Ami
By: Guy de Maupassant , Douglas Parmée
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power,… read more
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"In fact living is dying."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!"-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"The only certainty is death."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
"In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king."-Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
17. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
By: Olga Tokarczuk
3.95
Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating … read more
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"To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły"-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"There are some things we may not understand, but we can sense them perfectly well."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
"The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding."-Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
18. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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- history
19. Sad girl: La ragazza come teoria
By: Sara Marzullo
3.48
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
«Ero triste, di una tristezza vischiosa e pervasiva, come melassa o incenso. E soprattutto, era cos… read more
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20. The World as Will and Representation
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
4.26
Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition
The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more
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21. L'ardore
By: Roberto Calasso
4.42
Format: 529 pages, Paperback
Qualcosa di immensamente remoto dall’oggi apparve più di tremila anni fa nell’India del Nord: il Ve… read more
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