The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
By: Cynthia Cruz
3.80
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affe…
Want to Read $ 8.99"In order to write, let alone think, about social class, we need to have a language for it. And yet we don’t. Or rather, everyday working-class people don’t."-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
"In order to write, let alone think, about social class, we need to have a language for it. And yet we don’t. Or rather, everyday working-class people don’t."-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
"Neoliberalism insists that if we work hard enough, we can earn as much money as anyone else. Of course, the concept of meritocracy is integral to neoliberalism and erases the reality of capital itself, that capitalism is not just material capital but also, importantly, social and cultural capital. Without these forms of capital, (p. 77) one cannot, in fact, “succeed"-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
"Neoliberalism insists that if we work hard enough, we can earn as much money as anyone else. Of course, the concept of meritocracy is integral to neoliberalism and erases the reality of capital itself, that capitalism is not just material capital but also, importantly, social and cultural capital. Without these forms of capital, (p. 77) one cannot, in fact, “succeed"-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
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1. El matrimonio de los peces rojos
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.06
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
En estas cinco narraciones intensas y de atmósfera delicada, Guadalupe Nettel nos propone un cruce … read more
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"Concluí que con las emociones ocurre algo semejante: muy distintos tipos de sentimientos (a menudo simbióticos) se definen con la palabra «amor». Los enamoramientos muchas veces nacen también de form…"-Guadalupe Nettel, El matrimonio de los peces rojos
2. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- memoir
"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
3. The Chronology of Water
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the r… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"my parents Oedipal fakers"-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"...what is a couple over time but a line..."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
"Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art."-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
4. Rapture
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, … read more
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5. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
6. History
By: Elsa Morante , Lily Tuck
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Historywas written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hidin… read more
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7. Accabadora
By: Michela Murgia
4.07
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è… read more
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"Quan es té prou temps, fins i tot la ràbia s'organitza."-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"En la hora de la debilidad algunos prefieren hacerse creyentes que fuertes"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"-¿Quieres juzgar el cómo sin entender el porqué? Siempre tienes prisa por dictar sentencias, Maria. (Bonaria Urria)"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
"Come gli occhi della civetta, ci sono pensieri che non sopportano la luce piena. Non possono nascere che di notte, dove la loro funzione è la stessa della luna, necessaria a smuovere maree di senso i…"-Michela Murgia, Accabadora
8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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9. L'arte della gioia
By: Goliarda Sapienza
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
L'arte della gioiae un libro postumo: giaceva da vent'anni abbandonato in una cassapanca e, dopo es… read more
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10. Triste tigre
By: Neige Sinno
4.23
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre
11. Ferrovie del Messico
By: Gian Marco Griffi
4.10
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
Se cercate dell'avventura, in questo romanzo ne troverete a bizzeffe. Se cercate della letteratura,… read more
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12. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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- the united states of america
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
13. Quando muori resta a me
By: Zerocalcare
4.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
By: Michela Murgia
3.58
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
S'innamorano di una sagoma di cartone o di un pretoriano in miniatura, odiano i bambini pur portand… read more
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"Scegliere è sempre invecchiare, ma è solo a 19 anni che il mondo ti accorda ancora l'indulgenza di chiamarla crescita."-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"Un uomo smette di essere bambino solo quando diventa padre, altrimenti passa dalla madre alla moglie senza troppe differenze."-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"La verità è semplice e forse non ti piace, ma è quella: la maggior parte delle persone non fa figli proprio per non sopportare neanche dai suoi [figli] quello che tu stai chiedendo di tollerare dal t…"-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
"Secondo te mi sento così inutile perché non ho figli da guardar crescere?" mi ha chiesto mentre facevamo i piatti. "Ma come non ne hai, hai sposato un bambinone che non se ne andrà mai di casa, non p…"-Michela Murgia, Tre ciotole: Rituali per un anno di crisi
15. Dare la vita
By: Michela Murgia
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
Si può essere madri di figlie e figli che si scelgono, e che a loro volta ci hanno scelte? Si può c… read more
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- nonfiction
"Dimmi che ami quello che di me cambia di continuo, e io potrò continuare a darti quello che di me davvero non cambia: la voglia di sceglierti ogni giorno in modo differente, come diversa sono io ogni…"-Michela Murgia, Dare la vita
16. Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano
By: Francesco Costa
3.79
Format: 290 pages, ebook
C'è una storia che ascoltiamo da un po' di tempo, e descrive la più grande superpotenza del pianeta… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- the united states of america
17. Parti e omicidi
By: Sayaka Murata
3.76
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more
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18. La ricreazione è finita
By: Dario Ferrari
4.24
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more
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19. Forbidden Notebook
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
With a foreword by Jhumpa Lahiri, Quaderno Proibito is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cu… read more
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20. Il vaso di Pandoro: Ascesa e caduta dei Ferragnez
By: Selvaggia Lucarelli
4.10
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Il 15 dicembre del 2023 Chiara Ferragni, fashion blogger e imprenditrice digitale di fama internazi… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
22. Ma chi me lo fa fare? Come il lavoro ci ha illuso: la fine dell'incantesimo
By: Maura Gancitano
4.13
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
È PROPRIO VERO CHE SE AMIAMO IL NOSTRO LAVORO NON LAVOREREMO MAI UN GIORNO NELLA NOSTRA VITA O SIAM… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
23. Génie la matta
By: Inès Cagnati
4.12
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Questo romanzo è la storia dell'amore, lancinante e assoluto, di una figlia, Marie, nata da uno stu… read more
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- psychology
24. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more
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- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
25. Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
By: Carla Lonzi
4.28
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
"El divorcio es un injerto en el matrimonio con el cual se refuerza dicha institución."-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"La donna come soggetto non rifiuta l’uomo come soggetto, ma lo rifiuta come ruolo assoluto. Nella vita sociale lo rifiuta come ruolo autoritario."-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"It means the liberation of one half of humankind, which would make its voice heard, challenging, for the first time in history, not only bourgeois society but every society in which man is the protag…"-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
"For a girl, the university is not the place where she will achieve her liberation by means of culture, but the place where, after having been carefully prepared by the family, her repression will be …"-Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel e altri scritti
26. Skint Estate: A Memoir of Poverty, Motherhood and Survival
By: Cash Carraway
4.14
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
Cash Carraway is a single mum living in temporary accommodation. She’s been moved around the syste… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- class
- memoir
27. Blomsterdalen
By: Niviaq Korneliussen
3.67
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i… read more
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28. La Resistenza delle donne
By: Benedetta Tobagi
4.29
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
La storia delle donne italiane ha nella Resistenza e nell’esperienza della guerra partigiana uno de… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Lettere a me stessa: dopo la mia prima volta
By: Kabi Nagata
4.16
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
L'autrice Kabi Nagata prova a dare una svolta alla sua vita, cercando di andare a vivere da sola e … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. Against Nature (Untimely Meditations)
By: Lorraine Daston
3.77
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural or… read more
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- cultural
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
31. The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
By: Cynthia Cruz
3.80
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
What does it mean to be working-class in a middle-class world? Cynthia Cruz shows us how class affe… read more
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- cultural
- class
- memoir
- unfinished
- the united states of america
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
"In order to write, let alone think, about social class, we need to have a language for it. And yet we don’t. Or rather, everyday working-class people don’t."-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
"Neoliberalism insists that if we work hard enough, we can earn as much money as anyone else. Of course, the concept of meritocracy is integral to neoliberalism and erases the reality of capital itsel…"-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
"Proprio come assumere alcol o droghe oppure fumare, spendere soldi che non si hanno per un qualcosa che ci darà solo un giorno di evasione non ha un senso logico. Eppure spesso è l'unico mezzo di fug…"-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
"To resist assimilation is to insist on our working-class origins, on carrying with us the lives and histories of our families, communities, histories, and culture. To give up pretending that one is n…"-Cynthia Cruz, The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
