9 must-read poetry books like The dice cup: Selected prose poems by Max Jacob

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The dice cup: Selected prose poems

By: Max Jacob

3.89

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

English, French (translation)

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Cover of Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman

1. Our Lady of the Flowers

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

4.01

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more

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"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers

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2. Vadideki Zambak

By: Honoré de Balzac , Volkan Yalçıntoklu

3.72

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850): 19. yy Fransız edebiyatının büyük ismi. Edebi kariyerine oyun yazarak… read more

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"Çok mutluyum, mutluluk benim için bir hastalık gibidir, beni yorar ve bir düş gibi silinip gitmesinden korkarım."

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux."

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Pour un pauvre être écrasé par les différents despotismes qui, peu ou prou, pèsent sur toutes les jeunesses, le premier usage du libre arbitre, exercé même sur des riens, apportait à Tâme je ne sais …"

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

"Hemen hepimiz her sabah, yüreğimiz aşka susamış, içimiz içimize sığmayarak yola çıkarız. Sonra, bütün varlığımız acı deneylerden geçtiği, insanların ve olayların içine düştüğümüz zaman her şey, yavaş…"

-Honoré de Balzac, Vadideki Zambak

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3. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more

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"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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4. Demian

By: Hermann Hesse

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Er… read more

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"Fate and character are different names for the same idea."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"En estos momentos tuve una certeza fulminante: cada uno tenía una “misión"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?"

-Hermann Hesse, Demian

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5. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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6. 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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7. The Ginger Man

By: J.P. Donleavy

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

First published in Paris in 1955 and originally banned in America, J. P. Donleavy's first novel is … read more

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8. Paris Spleen

By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more

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  • poetry
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9. Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3)

By: William Shakespeare

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part Oneagain pits a rebellion within th… read more

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  • poetry
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10. 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

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11. Nadja

By: André Breton , Richard Howard

3.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more

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"I am the soul in limbo."

-André Breton, Nadja

"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."

-André Breton, Nadja

"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."

-André Breton, Nadja

"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."

-André Breton, Nadja

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12. Selected Poems of Apollinaire

By: Guillaume Apollinaire , Oliver Bernard

3.94

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First… read more

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13. Illuminations

By: Arthur Rimbaud

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more

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14. The Counterfeiters

By: André Gide

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and it… read more

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15. Joseph Cornell's Dreams

By: Joseph Cornell , Catherine Corman

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often i… read more

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16. Poésies

By: Stéphane Mallarmé

4.35

Format: None pages, Broche

-<> Yves Bonnefoy. read more

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  • poetry

17. Zazie in the Metro

By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Gilbert Adair

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All sh… read more

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18. Teorema

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

4.26

Format: None pages,

Una novela en la que los sentimientos, los pensamientos y las convicciones morales y religiosas ocu… read more

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19. Suicide

By: Édouard Levé

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

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Cover of The Invention of Morel by Jorge Luis Borges, Suzanne Jill Levine, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Norah Borges de Torre, Ruth L.C. Simms

20. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

Cover of Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) by Marcel Proust, Simon Vance, Lydia Davis

21. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

22. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more

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23. Theory of Bloom

By: Tiqqun

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The Theory of Bloom is the theory of the isolated subject of the modern era. The Bloom is forced to… read more

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24. February House

By: Sherill Tippins

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

February Houseis the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involvi… read more

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25. Ragazzi di vita

By: Pier Paolo Pasolini

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Pasolini e diventato famoso con questo romanzo acre, violento, fortissimo. La miseria italiana, i b… read more

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26. Approximate Man and Other Writings

By: Tristan Tzara , Mary Ann Caws

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This major anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the only English la… read more

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27. Funeral Rites

By: Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his … read more

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28. Le feu follet suivi de Adieu à Gonzague

By: Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

3.68

Format: 290 pages,

<>Alain regresa a la clinica de desintoxicacion despues de un agitado reencuentro con su amante, Ly… read more

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29. Richard II

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more

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30. The dice cup: Selected prose poems

By: Max Jacob

3.89

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

English, French (translation) read more

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