6 Top nonfiction books like The Cannibal Manifesto by Oswald de Andrade

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The Cannibal Manifesto

By: Oswald de Andrade

3.60

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

Cannibal Manifesto (also known as the Brazilwood Manifesto) was written in 1928 by Oswald de Andrad…

"Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically."

-Oswald de Andrade, The Cannibal Manifesto

"Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically."

-Oswald de Andrade, The Cannibal Manifesto

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Cannibal Manifesto by Oswald de Andrade , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. 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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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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

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2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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3. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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4. 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

Cover of Yerma by Federico García Lorca, Gwynne Edwards, Chris Megson

5. Yerma

By: Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lo… read more

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6. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

By: Sylvia Plath , Karen V. Kukil

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

First U.S. Publication A major literary event--the complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath, p… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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7. The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more

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8. Poet in New York

By: Federico García Lorca , Greg Simon , Steven F. White

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Paperback

Written while Federico Garcia Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New Yo… read more

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  • poetry
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9. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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10. De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

By: Jorge Amado , Harriet de Onís

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes-a gambler notorious for nev… read more

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  • brazil
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12. Los ríos profundos

By: مصطفی مفیدی , José María Arguedas

3.78

Format: 377 pages,

Jose Maria Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural su… read more

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13. Dream Story

By: Frederic Raphael , Arthur Schnitzler , J.M.Q. Davies

3.76

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931… read more

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"El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"متأكدة بقدر حدسي أن حقيقة ليلة، بل حتى حقيقة حياة إنسان بأكملها، لا تعني في الوقت ذاته حقيقته الداخلية."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"بدا له أنه لو وقف وحده سافِر الوجه بين كل هؤلاء المقنَّعين، فسيكون الأمر أسوأ آلاف المرات من أن يقف فجأة عاريًا بين اللابسين"

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

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14. Macunaima

By: Mário de Andrade , None

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Announcing a major literary event: here is the first translation into English of a landmark precurs… read more

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  • brazil
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15. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

By: Charles Baudelaire , None

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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  • nonfiction
  • essays

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. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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19. Betrayed by Rita Hayworth

By: Manuel Puig

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own pe… read more

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20. Theory of the Avant-Garde

By: Michael Shaw , None , None

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Suggests a theory of art, tests against the French and German avant-garde movements of the twenties… read more

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21. The Hour of the Star

By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more

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  • brazil
"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season"

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Όσο για το γράψιμο, περισσότερο αξίζει ένα ζωντανό σκυλί."

-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

22. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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23. The Library of Babel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres

4.35

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more

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"O Time thy pyramids."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

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24. Novelist as a Vocation

By: Haruki Murakami

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author’s own novels. Haruki Mura… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"La experiencia nos enseña a los escritores lo duro que es seguir siendo escritor."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta"

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

"Una sociedad capaz de asumir e integrar distintos puntos de vista y formas de pensar será capaz de avanzar lenta pero segura en la dirección correcta."

-Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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25. Eartheater

By: Dolores Reyes

3.61

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young … read more

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"Solo el dolor parece no morir nunca."

-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater

"No solo el amor acelera el ritmo cardíaco, también la música"

-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater

"No se extraña a un hijo, un hermano, una madre o un amigo igual que a otro"

-Dolores Reyes, Eartheater

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26. Little Eyes

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of… read more

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"Regulation has nothing to do with setting standards; it meant putting rules in place that worked in favor of a few."

-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes

"The animal's camera was installed behind its eyes, and sometimes it spun around on the three wheels hidden in its base, moving forward or backward. Someone was controlling the creature from somewhere…"

-Samanta Schweblin, Little Eyes

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27. Transculturación narrativa en América Latina

By: Ángel Rama

3.71

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. "Writing… read more

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28. Ubirajara

By: José de Alencar

3.15

Format: 117 pages, None

Neste seu último romance indianista, Alencar procura as origens do homem brasileiro, traçando um pa… read more

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29. The Cannibal Manifesto

By: Oswald de Andrade

3.60

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

Cannibal Manifesto (also known as the Brazilwood Manifesto) was written in 1928 by Oswald de Andrad… read more

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  • poetry
  • brazil
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically."

-Oswald de Andrade, The Cannibal Manifesto

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30. El conventillo (Spanish Edition)

By: Danilo Albero-Vergara

3.40

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Publicada en 1890, y casi en simultaneidad con los hechos históricos novelados, El conventillo (0 c… read more

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17 must-read fiction books like The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Burton Pike

Transform Your Habits

Lalka

Bolesław Prus

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Nie-Boska komedia

Zygmunt Krasiński

2.44

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Konrad Wallenrod

Adam Mickiewicz , Irene Suboczewski

2.60

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