12 must-read france books like Le nom sur le bout de la langue by Pascal Quignard

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Le nom sur le bout de la langue

By: Pascal Quignard

3.45

Format: 107 pages, Mass Market Paperback

InterZona presenta un libro central en la obra de Pascal Quignard en el que indaga sobre lo indecib…

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1. Mother

By: Maxim Gorky

3.97

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayis… read more

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  • fiction
"in music one can hear everything."

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

"Başımıza ne geliyorsa, korktuğumuz için geliyor,"

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

"ى يصبح لدينا أمهات يرسلن أبناءهن إلى الموت وهن يبتسمن؟"

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

"قد خلق الإنسان على صورة الله و مثاله و إليكم ما يفعلون به"

-Maxim Gorky, Mother

Cover of La vie devant soi by Romain Gary, None

2. La vie devant soi

By: Romain Gary , None

4.21

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Signé Ajar, ce roman reçut le prix Goncourt en 1975. Histoire d'amour d'un petit garçon arabe pour … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"هیچکس از ته دل نمی‌خواهد که بدی کند"

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"Много ясно си спомням този миг от живота си, понеже беше досущ като останалите."

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"سه ساله بودم که برای اولین بار رُزاخانم را دیدم. قبل از این سن آدم چیزی یادش نمی‌آید و در جهلِ مطلق دست و پا می‌زند"

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"Аз мисля, че живота трябва да го живеем в най-ранна възраст, защото после се обезценяваш и никой нищо не ти дава даром."

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

Cover of The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray, Maxine Hong Kingston

3. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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4. También esto pasará

By: Milena Busquets

3.11

Format: None pages,

Cuando era nina, para ayudarla a superar la muerte de su padre, a Blanca su madre le conto un cuent… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Las primas

By: Aurora Venturini

3.91

Format: None pages, pocket

Cuatro mujeres orbitando eternamente en el vacio. La premiadisima primera novela de la octogenaria … read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Pleasure of the Text

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Miller

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and … read more

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  • france
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7. Men Without Women

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.60

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short ficti… read more

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  • fiction
"The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning."

-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

Cover of Anna Karenina, 2 of 2 by Leo Tolstoy, Koesalah Soebagyo Toer

8. Anna Karenina, 2 of 2

By: Leo Tolstoy , Koesalah Soebagyo Toer

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1… read more

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  • fiction

9. A Field Guide to Getting Lost

By: Rebecca Solnit

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the… read more

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10. 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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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

11. The Festival of Insignificance

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an une… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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12. Il nostro bisogno di consolazione

By: Stig Dagerman , Fulvio Ferrari

4.24

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

L’inalienabile aspirazione umana alla felicità, alla libertà, al riscatto, al diritto di esistere s… read more

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  • france
"Är det att leva, att man är så ohyggligt ensam att man inte ens förmår att smitta ner de ’friska’ med sin ’sjukdom’?"

-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione

"Och de dödsdömda kan inte protestera, de kan bara dö. Det är domarna som måste bli annorlunda, mindre domare, mer människor, mindre rättvisa, mer mänskliga."

-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione

"Ändå jämrade sig minnet och sade: Riv inte, det är mina hus. Ni får inte slakta Klara! Varför inte, frågade då förnuftet, och minnet svarade: Därför att det är i denna del av världen som du har upple…"

-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione

"Men ingenting av detta får, tycker jag, hindra Davis’ anhängare från att fortsätta, väl medvetna om att detta bara är början. Om det blir mer än en början, det kan vi inte veta och det får inte göra …"

-Stig Dagerman, Il nostro bisogno di consolazione

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13. Zorba the Greek

By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis

4.04

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more

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  • fiction
"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"كم هو حزين ان تسير بمفردك على ساحل البحر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"إنّني أعتقد - ليسامحني الله - أنّني سعيد."

-None, Zorba the Greek

"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."

-None, Zorba the Greek

14. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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15. Portnoy's Complaint

By: Philip Roth , Luca Marinelli

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexualit… read more

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16. Beauty and Sadness

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Mei shisatoAi shimito Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by… read more

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17. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

Cover of Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas by Irene Solà

18. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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  • fiction
"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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19. A Frozen Woman

By: Annie Ernaux

4.16

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, a… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Old equals plain equals lonely."

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"So, what are you up to, where are you going on your vacation, that's a cute dress--no one knows what to talk about with an unmarried girl. Whereas a husband, children, an apartment, a washing machine…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

"Menstruation, making love, that had to come, but getting married? Everything that I've just experienced seems like all those things that are neither deliberately willed nor firmly rejected, and are t…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

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20. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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  • fiction
"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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21. El corazón del daño

By: María Negroni

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Recopilación privada; ajuste de cuentas con una madre desesperada y desesperante; desmontaje de una… read more

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  • fiction
"O la vida es un viaje hacia la nada y la escritura un atajo."

-María Negroni, El corazón del daño

Cover of Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies by Arthur Rimbaud

22. Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

By: Arthur Rimbaud

3.26

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Si l'on devait citer le poète qui a exercé l'influence la plus profonde sur la poésie du début du X… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"On n'est pas sérieux, quand on a dix-sept ans Et qu'on a des tilleuls verts sur la promenade."

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

"l'Idole où tu mis tant de virginité, Où tu divinisas notre argile, la Femme, Afin que l'Homme pût éclairer sa pauvre âme Et monter lentement, dans un immense amour, De la prison terrestre à la beauté…"

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

"Ma bohème Je m'en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ; Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ; J'allais sous le ciel, Muse ! et j'étais ton féal ; Oh ! là ! là ! que d'amours splendides j'ai rêvée…"

-Arthur Rimbaud, Les Cahiers de Douai: Poésies

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23. All the Young Dudes - Volume Two: Years 5 - 7 (All the Young Dudes, #2)

By: MsKingBean89

4.80

Format: 591 pages, None

MsKingBean’s “All The Young Dudes” has been divided into three volumes. This second book covers Yea… read more

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  • fiction
"Language!"

-MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes - Volume Two: Years 5 - 7 (All the Young Dudes, #2)

"Some man I’ve raised here,"

-MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes - Volume Two: Years 5 - 7 (All the Young Dudes, #2)

"I bloody well believe you, too - can’t get rid of ya, can I?"

-MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes - Volume Two: Years 5 - 7 (All the Young Dudes, #2)

"In a school full of adolescents learning to use magic, it wasn’t entirely out of the ordinary for accidents to happen."

-MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes - Volume Two: Years 5 - 7 (All the Young Dudes, #2)

Cover of Para hechizar a un cazador by Luciano Lamberti

24. Para hechizar a un cazador

By: Luciano Lamberti

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

«Hace rato que vengo mirándote [...]. Espiándote, para ser más precisa». Julia escucha en un bar a … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

25. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Les cahiers d'Esther : Histoires de mes 16 ans (Tome 7) by Riad Sattouf

26. Les cahiers d'Esther : Histoires de mes 16 ans (Tome 7)

By: Riad Sattouf

4.41

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

Pouviez-vous imaginer Esther bravant l'interdiction de ses parents pour aller en soirée ? Libre dan… read more

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  • france
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27. The Kites

By: Romain Gary

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a small farm in Normandy, as Hitler rises to power in Germany, young Ludo comes of age in the ca… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"כיום אני סבור שהיה בלב חברתי רצון מעורפל שלא יכלה לבטאו במפורש - הרצון להגשים את עצמה לא רק בנשיותה. אך כיצד יכלתי לדעת אז, בגילי, אני שכל רזי העולם היו לי כספר החתום, כי יש שהמילה "נשיות" היא ככלא ל…"

-Romain Gary, The Kites

"דבר שאינו בראש ובראשונה פרי-הדמיון אינו ראוי שיחיו אותו. שאם לא כן, מהו ים - רק מים מלוחים ותו לא.... אני, למשל, כבר חמשים שנה אני ממציא בלי הרף את אשתי. בשום פנים ואופן לא נתתי לה להזדקן. היא ודאי מ…"

-Romain Gary, The Kites

"I battled my feelings of inferiority bravely, picking out a guest and imagining him floating in the air at the end of a line I held in my hand, with his stiff-legged trousers, his checked vest, and h…"

-Romain Gary, The Kites

Cover of Mi madre y la música by Marina Tsvetaeva

28. Mi madre y la música

By: Marina Tsvetaeva

3.82

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

Lo sorprendente de la trágica vida de Marina Tsvietáieva es cómo en su literatura los hechos más co… read more

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29. Le nom sur le bout de la langue

By: Pascal Quignard

3.45

Format: 107 pages, Mass Market Paperback

InterZona presenta un libro central en la obra de Pascal Quignard en el que indaga sobre lo indecib… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

30. 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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  • fiction

22 best-selling fiction books like Le nom sur le bout de la langue by Pascal Quignard

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Mother

Maxim Gorky

3.97

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Romain Gary , None

4.21

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The Lover

Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

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Los arboles caídos también son el bosque

Alejandra Kamiya

3.23

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Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

Mónica Ojeda

3.86

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La segunda venida de Hilda Bustamante

Salomé Esper

3.89

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María Negroni

3.99

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