18 must-read fiction books like Calicalabozo by Andrés Caicedo

Cover of Calicalabozo by Andrés Caicedo

Calicalabozo

By: Andrés Caicedo

3.98

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Colombia, dicen, es un país encantador por su geografía, y por su gente. Cali, la capital, es igual…

"Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)"

-Andrés Caicedo, Calicalabozo

"Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)"

-Andrés Caicedo, Calicalabozo

If you liked the fiction plot in Calicalabozo by Andrés Caicedo , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba by Gabriel García Márquez

1. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Cover of Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

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

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

3. 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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4. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

Cover of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim

5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more

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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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6. La virgen de los sicarios

By: Fernando Vallejo

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

«La Virgen de los Sicarios es una descarnada parodia de la violencia que afectó a Medellín durante … read more

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"Dios no existe y si existe es la gran gonorrea."

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

"¡Para qué más ruido afuera con el que llevábamos adentro!"

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

"¡Qué es! ¡Qué és! ¡Qué es! Se ve. Se siente. El pueblo está presente."

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

"Uno en las comunas sube hacia el cielo pero bajando hacia los infiernos."

-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios

Cover of Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, Dolores M. Koch

7. Before Night Falls

By: Reinaldo Arenas , Dolores M. Koch

4.20

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as … read more

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"Cuba will be free. I already am."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

"If Cuba is Hell, Miami is Purgatory."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

"La gran Humanidad no tolera la belleza, quizá porque no puede vivir sin ella; el horror de la fealdad avanza cada día a pasos acelerados."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

"Los dictadores y los regímenes autoritarios pueden destruir a los escritores de dos modos: persiguiéndolos o colmándolos de prebendas oficiales."

-Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

Cover of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien, James  Wood, Justin Obrien

8. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Cover of Cronopios and Famas by Julio Cortázar, Paul Blackburn

9. Cronopios and Famas

By: Julio Cortázar , Paul Blackburn

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected i… read more

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10. La última niebla / La amortajada

By: María Luisa Bombal

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Se reune en el presente volumen, por primera vez en un solo tomo, la totalidad de la obra narrativa… read more

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Cover of Todos los fuegos el fuego by Julio Cortázar, None

11. Todos los fuegos el fuego

By: Julio Cortázar , None

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Hardcover

Todos los fuegos el fuego offers eight great examples of the creative fullness that encompasses Cor… read more

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Cover of Poesía completa by Alejandra Pizarnik, Ana María Becciu

12. Poesía completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more

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13. El Llano en llamas

By: Juan Rulfo

4.47

Format: None pages,

'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more

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14. Brodie's Report

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short sto… read more

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15. Sin Remedio

By: Antonio Caballero

4.40

Format: None pages,

"In a novel that mixes humor and tragedy with great dexterity, Caballero depicts some of Colombia's… read more

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16. Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more

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17. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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18. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

19. Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín

By: Gabriel García Márquez , None

3.88

Format: 383 pages,

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20. El túnel

By: None

5.00

Format: None pages,

Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more

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21. Opio en las nubes

By: Rafael Chaparro Madiedo

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Soy Pink Tomate, el gato de Amarilla. A veces no se si soy tomate o gato. En todo caso a veces me … read more

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22. Satanás

By: Mario Mendoza

4.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ernesto, un sacerdote de buen corazon pero sin fe que se enfrenta a una nina poseida; Maria, una mu… read more

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23. El olvido que seremos

By: Héctor Abad Faciolince

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

El medico Hector Abad Gomez dedico sus ultimos anos, hasta el mismo dia en que cayo asesinado en pl… read more

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24. 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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25. La Tejedora de Coronas

By: None

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Un viaje por la historia del siglo XVIII desde una Cartagena marcada por la Inquisicion y a traves … read more

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26. Seven Empty Houses

By: Samanta Schweblin

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more

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Cover of Los vagabundos de Dios by Mario Mendoza

27. Los vagabundos de Dios

By: Mario Mendoza

3.79

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

La nueva novela de Mario Mendoza después de seis años Adán Santana, un novelista con el cuerpo d… read more

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Cover of En agosto nos vemos by Gabriel García Márquez

28. En agosto nos vemos

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Hardcover

Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez   Cada mes de a… read more

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"Do you know how old I am?"

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."

-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos

Cover of Calicalabozo by Andrés Caicedo

29. Calicalabozo

By: Andrés Caicedo

3.98

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Colombia, dicen, es un país encantador por su geografía, y por su gente. Cali, la capital, es igual… read more

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"Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovang…"

-Andrés Caicedo, Calicalabozo

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30. El Hueco

By: Germán Castro Caycedo

3.99

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

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13 Top fiction books like Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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