7 Best nonfiction books like L'Epreuvre de l'étranger by Antoine Berman

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L'Epreuvre de l'étranger

By: Antoine Berman

3.88

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

in-8 (205 x 140 mm), broché, 311 pp., bibliographie. Excellent état.

If you liked the nonfiction plot in L'Epreuvre de l'étranger by Antoine Berman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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2. La vie devant soi

By: Romain Gary , None

4.21

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Signé Ajar, ce roman reçut le prix Goncourt en 1975. Histoire d'amour d'un petit garçon arabe pour … read more

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"هیچکس از ته دل نمی‌خواهد که بدی کند"

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"Много ясно си спомням този миг от живота си, понеже беше досущ като останалите."

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"سه ساله بودم که برای اولین بار رُزاخانم را دیدم. قبل از این سن آدم چیزی یادش نمی‌آید و در جهلِ مطلق دست و پا می‌زند"

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

"Аз мисля, че живота трябва да го живеем в най-ранна възраст, защото после се обезценяваш и никой нищо не ти дава даром."

-Romain Gary, La vie devant soi

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3. 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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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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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4. 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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5. Art Worlds

By: Howard S. Becker

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Argues that art works are not the creation of isolated individuals but result from cooperation betw… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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  • france
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7. The Woman Destroyed

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Patrick O'Brian

3.75

Format: None pages,

Una crisi coniugale o familiare costringe tre donne a mettere in discussione la propria vita e il p… read more

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

8. 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)

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9. Juste la fin du monde

By: Jean-Luc Lagarce

3.20

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Le fils retourne dans sa famille pour l'informer de sa mort prochaine. Ce sont les retrouvailles av… read more

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  • france

10. El arpa y la sombra

By: Alejo Carpentier

3.83

Format: 432 pages,

Articulada en torno a la figura de Cristobal Colon y al intento que de canonizarle llevara a cabo P… read more

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11. Salomé

By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more

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12. Happening

By: Annie Ernaux

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plag… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
"There is no such thing as a lesser truth."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"I was intoxicated, wrapped up in wordless intelligence."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"People judged according to the law, they didn't judge the law."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

"love children are the most beautiful of all.' What a terrible statement."

-Annie Ernaux, Happening

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13. Lou ! Sonata 2

By: Julien Neel

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Vibrer au son de la musique n’a jamais été aussi libérateur. Alors que son amie Marie-Émilie se dés… read more

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  • france
Cover of Quand tu écouteras cette chanson by Lola Lafon

14. Quand tu écouteras cette chanson

By: Lola Lafon

4.40

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Le 18 août 2021, j'ai passé la nuit au Musée Anne Frank, dans l'Annexe. Anne Frank, que tout le mon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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15. In the Country of Others

By: Leïla Slimani

3.76

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more

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"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."

-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others

"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."

-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others

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16. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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17. La Petite Dernière

By: Fatima Daas

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

« Je m'appelle Fatima Daas. Je suis la mazoziya, la dernière. Celle à laquelle on ne s'est pas prép… read more

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"Il n'y a que sur les photos qu'on est heureux."

-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

"Islam meant believing in God, loving Him, fearing Him, obeying Him. I got the first stages right."

-Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

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18. Les monstres de Sénèque: Pour une dramaturgie de la tragédie romaine (L'Antiquité au présent) (French Edition)

By: Florence Dupont

3.63

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

French read more

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  • essays
Cover of L'Epreuvre de l'étranger by Antoine Berman

19. L'Epreuvre de l'étranger

By: Antoine Berman

3.88

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

in-8 (205 x 140 mm), broché, 311 pp., bibliographie. Excellent état. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
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20. La escritura como un cuchillo

By: Annie Ernaux

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

Durante un año, aproximadamente, sin una regularidad fija, Frédéric-Yves Jeannet le envió a Annie E… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
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21. Histoire Litterature Temoi (Folio Histoire) (French Edition)

By: Schap/Riba/Jouh

2.00

Format: 405 pages, Pocket Book

Les malheurs du temps - la guerre, la famine ou la peste - nous sont connus grâce à des témoignages… read more

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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4.21

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André Breton , Richard Howard

3.55

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Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

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Alice Zeniter

4.13

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Brigitte Giraud

3.58

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Isabela Figueiredo

4.28

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Jean-Baptiste Andrea

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