Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
By: Nicolás Gómez Dávila
4.71
Format: 1496 pages, Hardcover
Latino Book Award 2006 - Mariposa Award (Best First Book) Presented for the first time in its entir…
Want to Read"«La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio»."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
"«La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio»."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
"Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
"Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
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1. Los años verdes
By: Yukio Mishima
3.62
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Tras ser movilizado durante la II Guerra Mundial, cuando el país es derrotado y regresa a su hogar,… read more
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2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. How Much Land Does a Man Need?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Boris Dralyuk
4.11
Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a greedy peasant named Pakhom. Although Pakhom enjoys health and family happiness, he … read more
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- philosophy
"I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone."-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow some bread. Only the stranger was sitting on the bench, wearing the old trous…"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
"An elder sister came from the town to visit her younger sister in the country. This elder sister was married to a merchant and the younger to a peasant in the village. The two sisters sat down for a …"-Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
4. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
5. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
7. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
8. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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9. Spoon River Anthology
By: Edgar Lee Masters
4.05
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
10. A Sport and a Pastime
By: James Salter , Reynolds Price
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more
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11. The Way of the Kings
By: Howard Curtis , Rachel Seiffert , André Malraux
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of Malraux's most exotic novels, The Way of Kingsis a perfect companion to Joseph Conrad's The … read more
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12. The Aleph and Other Stories
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more
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13. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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14. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
By: James C. Scott
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size… read more
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15. The Plains
By: Gerald Murnane
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lect… read more
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16. Sun and Steel
By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more
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17. Thirst for Love
By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosi… read more
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18. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
19. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
20. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more
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- nonfiction
"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
21. On the Aesthetic Education of Man
By: Friedrich Schiller , Reginald Snell
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
"Essential reading." -- New Society. A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller's … read more
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22. The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
By: Oswald Spengler
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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23. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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24. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more
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25. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
26. The Forest Passage
By: Ernst Jünger
4.08
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Ernst Jünger's The Forest Passage explores the possibility of resistance: how the independent think… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Long periods of peace foster certain optical illusions: one is the conviction that the inviolability of the home is grounded in the constitution, which should guarantee it. In reality, it is grounded…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
"None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-bei…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
"Still more important is the consideration that in many people today a strong need for religious ritual coexists with an aversion to churches. There is a sense of something missing in existence, which…"-Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
27. The Last Messiah
By: Peter Wessel Zapffe
4.32
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
The supreme text of Antinatalist despair! Norwegian philosopher Peter Zapffe re-imagines the human … read more
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"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture pas…"-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
"A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has graspe…"-Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah
28. Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
By: Nicolás Gómez Dávila
4.71
Format: 1496 pages, Hardcover
Latino Book Award 2006 - Mariposa Award (Best First Book) Presented for the first time in its entir… read more
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"«La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio»."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
"Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
"Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
"The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity."-Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa (Spanish Edition)
29. Contre le libéralisme : La société n'est pas un marché (French Edition)
By: Alain de Benoist
4.26
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
Une société libérale est une société où dominent la primauté de l'individu isolé, l'idéologie du pr… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
30. El eje del mundo
By: Gregorio Luri
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Como señalara Hernán Cortés, hubo un tiempo en que los españoles tenían a su alcance todo lo posibl… read more
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