9 Top classics books like Héliopolis by Ernst Jünger

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Héliopolis

By: Ernst Jünger

4.07

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

D'Héliopolis, on pourrait dire que ce livre est le bréviaire de tous ceux que fascine depuis plus d…

If you liked the classics plot in Héliopolis by Ernst Jünger , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Plus

By: Joseph McElroy

3.95

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Imp Plus, a brain removed from an individual with a wife and child, begins to develop self-awarenes… read more

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  • literature
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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2. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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3. Calendar of Regrets

By: Lance Olsen

4.48

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

A wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each mont… read more

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  • fiction
"Everything changes, sweetheart. The universe loves to happen."

-Lance Olsen, Calendar of Regrets

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4. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. The Possibility of an Island

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more

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  • literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

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6. 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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7. The Foundation Pit

By: Mirra Ginsburg , Andrei Platonov , Andrey Platonov

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

The Foundation Pitportrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundati… read more

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  • literature
  • dystopia
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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9. The Melancholy of Resistance

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
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10. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • literature

11. Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse , Basil Creighton , کیکاووس جهانداری

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steppenwolfis a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. Th… read more

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12. 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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13. Berta Isla

By: Javier Marías

4.30

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

<> Muy jovenes se conocieron Berta Isla y Tomas Nevinson en Madrid, y muy pronta fue su determinaci… read more

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14. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

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15. The Man Without Qualities

By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike

4.19

Format: 1774 pages, Paperback

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!"

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

"Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben."

-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

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16. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • 20th century
  • fiction
"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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17. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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18. The Netanyahus

By: Joshua Cohen

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but … read more

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  • literature
  • politics
  • fiction
Cover of Historia del silencio: Del Renacimiento a nuestros días by Alain Corbin

19. Historia del silencio: Del Renacimiento a nuestros días

By: Alain Corbin

3.13

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

El silencio no es la simple ausencia de ruido. Hace posible la fortaleza interior donde los grandes… read more

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20. Héliopolis

By: Ernst Jünger

4.07

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

D'Héliopolis, on pourrait dire que ce livre est le bréviaire de tous ceux que fascine depuis plus d… read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • politics
  • germany
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • science fiction
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21. The Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1918-1932

By: Armin Mohler

4.16

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

The Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1918-1932 is one the most comprehensive, most lasting, and … read more

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  • politics
  • germany

15 Best fiction books like Héliopolis by Ernst Jünger

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Joseph McElroy

3.95

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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

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Calendar of Regrets

Lance Olsen

4.48

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Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

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The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass

4.17

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William H. Gass

4.07

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George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

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