6 best-selling poetry books like Doppia vita by Gottfried Benn

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Doppia vita

By: Gottfried Benn

3.64

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Da Gottfried Benn, che ha sempre scompaginato tutte le categorie, e che ha bollato l’Io come «stato…

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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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  • poetry
"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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2. Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

By: Adelbert von Chamisso , William Howitt

3.62

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Adelbert von Chamissos 1814 erschienene phantastische Erzählung 'Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschi… read more

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"Was sein soll, muß geschehen, und was sein sollte, das geschah."

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

"Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?"

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

"I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery."

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

"In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch länger vor meiner Seele zu behalten."

-Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

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3. Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The characte… read more

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"Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"How oft the warmth of the sun above Makes a pretty young girl dream of love."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

"For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat."

-Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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4. 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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  • poetry
"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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5. Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen

By: Heinrich Heine

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

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  • poetry
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6. Der Blonde Eckbert

By: Ludwig Tieck

3.58

Format: 24 pages,

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7. Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland

By: Friedrich Hölderlin

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Die schonste Dichtung deutscher Sprache ist Holderlins 'Hyperion' vielfach genannt worden, ein unub… read more

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  • poetry
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8. Lenz

By: None , Georg Büchner , Johann Friedrich Oberlin

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lenz, Georg Buchner's visionary exploration of an 18th century playwright's descent into madness, g… read more

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9. Ripple: A Predilection for Tina

By: Dave Cooper , David Cronenberg

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Ripple is a breakthrough graphic novel for Dave Cooper, creator of the wildly surreal and criticall… read more

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10. La uruguaya

By: Pedro Mairal

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Como en los suenos, en Montevideo las cosas me resultaban parecidas pero diferentes. Eran pero no … read more

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11. Lieutenant Gustl

By: Arthur Schnitzler

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the centur… read more

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12. Severin’s Journey Into the Dark : A Prague Ghost Story

By: Paul Leppin , None , Kevin Blahut , Richard Teschner

4.36

Format: 352 pages,

Leppin was the truly chosen bard of the painfully disappearing old Prague, its infamous side street… read more

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13. A Coffin for Dimitrios

By: Eric Ambler

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery wr… read more

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14. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

By: Christopher Lasch

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts hav… read more

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15. Ferdydurke

By: Witold Gombrowicz , Danuta Borchardt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himsel… read more

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"Oy, stil – tiranların aleti!"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"Yakında kendi kişiliklerimizden ve kişiselliklerimizden korkmaya başlayacağız, çünkü onların hiç de sonuna kadar bizim olmadıkları, bizler için apaçık olacak. Ve “Ben buna inanıyorum – ben bunu hisse…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in impl…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

"Sonuna kadar insan olmayanların sonuna kadar dünya olmayan dünyasını bir ân bile unutamıyordum -ve panikle korka korka, acayip iğrene iğrene, onun bataklık yeşilini sadece gözümde canlandırdığımda bi…"

-Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

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16. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

By: Yukio Mishima , John Nathan

3.85

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the… read more

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"إن الخطر، هو الحياة"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous"

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

"حتى وإن أبحرت سنوات عديدة، لن تعتاد يوماً على العواصف، وفي كل مرة تتساءل إن كنت ستودع الحياة"."

-Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

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17. Yesterday

By: Ágota Kristóf

3.85

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In spare, elegant prose, this modern novella recounts a troubled young man's flight from a judgment… read more

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18. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

By: John Le Carré

3.94

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more

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19. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

20. The Fifth Child

By: Doris Lessing

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more

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21. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

By: Ágota Kristóf

4.11

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"

-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

22. Last Vanities

By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy

4.20

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, … read more

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23. Watermark

By: Joseph Brodsky , None

4.08

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, … read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy."

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

"I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is... In any case, I always thought that if the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water, the water was bound to refle…"

-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

24. Monsieur Teste

By: Paul Valéry

4.18

Format: 578 pages,

The famous opening line of Monsieur Teste -- "Stupidity is not my strong suit" -- is typical of Mon… read more

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25. Elective Affinities

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , David Constantine , None

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Elective Affinitieswas written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary gia… read more

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26. The Anomaly

By: Hervé Le Tellier

3.81

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic and that explores the part of ourselves that eludes us… read more

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"Aimer évite au moins de chercher sans cesse un sens à sa vie."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Le vrai pessimiste sait qu'il est déjà trop tard pour l'être."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod, besonders nach dem der anderen."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

"Une traduction est une œuvre, les traducteurs sont des auteurs."

-Hervé Le Tellier, The Anomaly

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27. The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020

By: Rachel Kushner

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture Rachel Kushner has… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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28. Tatin sin

By: Dino Pešut

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Nakon neuspješnog pokušaja da pronađe sebe na Zapadu, mladi intelektualac, pjesnik u nastajanju, ml… read more

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29. Un féminisme décolonial

By: Françoise Vergès

4.35

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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30. Doppia vita

By: Gottfried Benn

3.64

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Da Gottfried Benn, che ha sempre scompaginato tutte le categorie, e che ha bollato l’Io come «stato… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
Cover of Kafka pro und contra: Die Prozess-Unterlagen. by Günther Anders

31. Kafka pro und contra: Die Prozess-Unterlagen.

By: Günther Anders

4.28

Format: 109 pages, Perfect Paperback

Translators' Readers who are familiar with this work in German will know that its effectiveness as … read more

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" Kafka's characters are not more abstract than real people: they are people attached to a job."

-Günther Anders, Kafka pro und contra: Die Prozess-Unterlagen.

"If anything in Kafka's theology can be called Jewish, it is his virtual lack of any concept of 'Nature'. There is in a sense no 'Nature' in Genesis either, since the world is created for man. There m…"

-Günther Anders, Kafka pro und contra: Die Prozess-Unterlagen.

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Transform Your Habits

On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.89

Transform Your Habits

L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

Ágota Kristóf

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Watermark

Joseph Brodsky , None

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020

Rachel Kushner

3.86

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

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Splinters

Leslie Jamison

3.86

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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