7 must-read poetry books like Eupalinos ; L'âme et la danse ; Dialogue de l'arbre by Paul Valéry

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Eupalinos ; L'âme et la danse ; Dialogue de l'arbre

By: Paul Valéry

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Valery, Paul

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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • french literature
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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2. Of Love and Other Demons

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.96

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-c… read more

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"<>, dijo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Do not allow me to forget you"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Vivo espantado de estar vivo."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

"Ideas do not belong to anyone,"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

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3. Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

By: Osho

4.14

Format: 193 pages, ebook

Courage is not the absence of fear, says Osho. It is, rather, the total presence of fear, with the … read more

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  • philosophy
"Qorxu dolu insan üçün həyat təhlükəli olur. Çünki yaşamaq sevmək deməkdir."

-Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

"They say: Think twice before you jump. I say: Jump first and then think as much as you want!"

-Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

"The crowd is not the problem - you are the problemn. The crowd is not pulling you - you are being pulled..."

-Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

"Man is the only animal who feels boredom; it is a great prerogative, it is part of the dignity of human beings."

-Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

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4. Poemas y antipoemas

By: Nicanor Parra

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

La publicación en 1954 de "Poemas y antipoemas" revoluciónó la poesía y la manera de poetizar en to… read more

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  • poetry
"el autor se dará x satisfecho si el lector compra este libro"

-Nicanor Parra, Poemas y antipoemas

"Sólo debo agregar que en aquel día Nació en mi mente la inquietud y el ansia De hacer en verso lo que en ola y ola Dios a mi vista sin cesar creaba. Desde ese entonces data la ferviente Y abrasadora …"

-Nicanor Parra, Poemas y antipoemas

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5. Death with Interruptions

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more

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"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

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6. The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

4.15

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg st… read more

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"In the department of...but it would be better not to say in which department."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد."

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

"Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin…"

-Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat

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7. Le Neveu de Rameau

By: Denis Diderot

3.48

Format: 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Œuvre cruciale, Le Neveu de Rameau a permis à Diderot de trouver son propre en se libérant de son r… read more

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  • philosophy
  • french literature
"Bizim kadar budala olmayanları akıllı saymayız."

-Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau

"آدمی شربت دروغی را که در تملق او باشد یک جرعه می‌نوشد و حرف حق را که برایش تلخ است، قطره‌قطره. در ثانی، ما چاپلوسان قیافه‌مان حق به جانب و صادق است."

-Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau

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8. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • philosophy
  • poetry
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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9. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • philosophy
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10. Leer la mente

By: Jorge Volpi

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Un brillante y provocador ensayo, donde Jorge Volpi entrelaza ciencia y literatura y demuestra que … read more

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11. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • philosophy

12. The Trojan Women

By: Euripides , Gilbert Murray

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

"This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's i… read more

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13. 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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  • poetry
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14. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mary Dows Herter Norton

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggeis Rilke's major prose work and was one of the earliest public… read more

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  • philosophy
  • poetry
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15. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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16. La casa de Bernarda Alba

By: Federico García Lorca , None , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Focus Student Editions are designed for Spanish language courses in literature and culture. Pre… read more

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17. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • poetry
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

18. 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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Paul Hammond

19. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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  • philosophy
  • french literature
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

20. The Tartar Steppe

By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more

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21. 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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"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

22. Foe

By: J.M. Coetzee

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more

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23. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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24. Il fu Mattia Pascal

By: Luigi Pirandello

4.01

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1904, Il fu Mattia Pascal, il più famoso dei romanzi di Pirandello, riveste un'impor… read more

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"Si reconocemos que equivocarse es propio del hombre, ¿no es una crueldad sobrehumana la justicia?"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole."

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"come se parimenti dalle proprie sofferenze vi fosse abilitato. E se gli altri non gli fanno il bene quasi per dovere, egli li accusa, e di tutto il male ch’egli fa quasi per diritto, facilmente si sc…"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

"E dimentichiamo spesso e volentieri di essere atomi infinitesimali per rispettarci e ammirarci a vicenda, e siamo capaci di azzuffarci per un pezzettino di terra o di dolerci di certe cose, che, ove …"

-Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal

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25. 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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  • french literature
"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

26. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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27. No Exit

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more

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28. Lo que no tiene nombre

By: Piedad Bonnett

3.86

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

?Hasta donde puede llegar la literatura? En este libro dedicado a la vida y la muerte de su hijo Da… read more

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29. Eupalinos ; L'âme et la danse ; Dialogue de l'arbre

By: Paul Valéry

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • poetry
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30. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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  • poetry
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

8 must-read philosophy books like Eupalinos ; L'âme et la danse ; Dialogue de l'arbre by Paul Valéry

Transform Your Habits

Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

Osho

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Le Neveu de Rameau

Denis Diderot

3.48

Transform Your Habits

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

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Transform Your Habits

Dul

Jean-Louis Fournier , Can Belge

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Asla Kimseyi Öldürmedi Benim Babam

Jean-Louis Fournier , Zafer Demez

3.94

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L'analphabète: récit autobiographique

Ágota Kristóf

4.11

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The Young Man

Annie Ernaux

3.61

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