5 Top literature books like The Writings of Marcel Duchamp by Marcel Duchamp

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The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

By: Marcel Duchamp

4.32

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make…

"The most interesting thing about artists is how they live"

-Marcel Duchamp, The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

"The most interesting thing about artists is how they live"

-Marcel Duchamp, The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

If you liked the literature plot in The Writings of Marcel Duchamp by Marcel Duchamp , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The White Album

By: Joan Didion

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."

-Joan Didion, The White Album

"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"

-Joan Didion, The White Album

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2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

Cover of Identity by Milan Kundera, Linda Asher

3. Identity

By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which th… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • classics
Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

4. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Salvador Dalí: 1904-1989 by Gilles Néret, Catherine Plant

5. Salvador Dalí: 1904-1989

By: Gilles Néret , Catherine Plant

3.17

Format: None pages,

Salvador Dali (1904 1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics, with a f… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more

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  • literature
Cover of One Way Street And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin, None, K. Shorter

7. One Way Street And Other Writings

By: Walter Benjamin , None , K. Shorter

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

This is a representative selection of Walter Benjamin's intellectual and literary writings. Reminis… read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction

8. Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

By: Ingo F. Walther , Rainer Metzger

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairin… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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10. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more

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11. The Fourth Monkey (A 4MK Thriller, #1)

By: J.D. Barker

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated thriller of the year - Optioned for both film and television Se7enmeets The Si… read more

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12. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

13. Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

By: Barbara Wright , Francis Picabia , Tristan Tzara

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Tristan Tzara--poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst--was the founder of the Dada movement that b… read more

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14. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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15. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

By: Stephen King

3.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. K… read more

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16. Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more

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17. Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews

By: Calvin Tomkins , None

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment o… read more

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18. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • literature
  • france
  • classics
  • nonfiction
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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19. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • france
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Fifth to Die (4MK Thriller, #2) by J.D. Barker

20. The Fifth to Die (4MK Thriller, #2)

By: J.D. Barker

4.33

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

In the thrilling sequel to The Fourth Monkey, a new serial killer stalks the streets of Chicago, wh… read more

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"People are so poor around these parts, they eat their cereal with a fork to save on milk. They gotta take the bus to do a drive-by"

-J.D. Barker, The Fifth to Die (4MK Thriller, #2)

Cover of Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

21. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Writings of Marcel Duchamp by Marcel Duchamp

22. The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

By: Marcel Duchamp

4.32

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In the twenties, Surrealists proclaimed that words had stopped playing around and had begun to make… read more

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  • poetry
  • art history
  • art
  • history
  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • criticism
"The most interesting thing about artists is how they live"

-Marcel Duchamp, The Writings of Marcel Duchamp

6 Top classics books like The Writings of Marcel Duchamp by Marcel Duchamp

Transform Your Habits

The White Album

Joan Didion

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Identity

Milan Kundera , Linda Asher

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

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17 Top fiction books like Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1) by Karl Ove Knausgård

Transform Your Habits

The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)

Karl Ove Knausgård

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Hunger

Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Soumission

Michel Houellebecq

3.65

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