The Ruin of Kasch
By: Roberto Calasso
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant work, Roberto Calasso cracks the code of what Baudelaire named the Modern--the in…
Want to Read $ 8.99"E***: Our fate is governed by two mummies: that of Lenin in his mausoleum and that of Bentham at University College, London."-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
"E***: Our fate is governed by two mummies: that of Lenin in his mausoleum and that of Bentham at University College, London."-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
"Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course."-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
"Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course."-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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- history
- literature
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- mythology
"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Dimentica il mio nome
By: Zerocalcare
4.39
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Quando l'ultimo pezzo della sua infanzia se ne va, Zerocalcare scopre cose sulla propria famiglia c… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
"Forse crescere significa anche questo. Accettare che quel monte che protegge la vallata ha anche un altro versante, nascosto. Che il terreno non è tutto uguale, ci sono zone più fertili, altre più ar…"-Zerocalcare, Dimentica il mio nome
3. The Adventures of Augie March
By: Christopher Hitchens , Saul Bellow
3.84
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago… read more
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- literature
"God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
"The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112)."-Christopher Hitchens, The Adventures of Augie March
4. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
By: Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absol… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
5. Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge & Its Transmission Through Myth
By: Giorgio de Santillana , None , Hertha von Dechen
4.16
Format: None pages,
Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology & s… read more
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6. Six Memos For The Next Millennium
By: Italo Calvino
3.71
Format: 656 pages,
Six Memos for the Millenniumis a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at … read more
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- italian literature
7. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- literature
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
8. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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- philosophy
- france
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
9. La profezia dell'armadillo
By: Zerocalcare
3.58
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Centotrentasei tavole, divise in storie brevi alla sua maniera, storielle di una o quattro/cinque p… read more
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10. Hygiène de l'assassin
By: Amélie Nothomb
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Pretextat Tach, prix Nobel de litterature, n'a plus que deux mois a vivre. Des journalistes du mond… read more
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11. The Baron in the Trees
By: Italo Calvino , Archibald Colquhoun , Ana Goldstein
4.02
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life l… read more
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"Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Mais je fais une chose tout à fait bonne: je vis dans les arbres"-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
"Chi vuole guardare bene la terra deve tenersi alla distanza necessaria."-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
12. The Glass Bead Game
By: Theodore Ziolkowski , Hermann Hesse , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, 'The Gla… read more
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13. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą
By: Bruno Schulz
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. The Castle of Crossed Destinies
By: Italo Calvino
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are … read more
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15. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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16. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
By: Max Solomon Bennett
4.46
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more
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- history
17. The Unicorn
By: Iris Murdoch
3.64
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
When Marian Taylor takes a post as governess at Gaze Castle, a remote house on a desolate coast, sh… read more
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"Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"It was odd, the life one lived in other people's dreams."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
"We are all mad sometimes, but it passes." "The consequences do not pass."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
". . . enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy."-Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn
18. Jack (Gilead, #4)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.86
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the … read more
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"Those who can't hope can still wish."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"So many of earth's grievances could be soothed by a little consideration."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly didn’t want to have."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
"An intensely lonely man for whom life has not gone well - I believe this was your language."-Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Gilead, #4)
19. The World as Will and Representation
By: Arthur Schopenhauer
4.26
Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition
The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more
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20. The Ruin of Kasch
By: Roberto Calasso
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant work, Roberto Calasso cracks the code of what Baudelaire named the Modern--the in… read more
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- france
- essays
- italian literature
- mythology
"E***: Our fate is governed by two mummies: that of Lenin in his mausoleum and that of Bentham at University College, London."-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
"Where there is no initiation, there is the autodidact. Anyone for whom knowledge is not wisdom transmitted through experience is enrolled in a university that is a correspondence course."-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
"Sacrifice requires perfect awareness of destruction: if this clear-sighted attention is missing, there is no sacrifice. For technology it's enough to justify with claims about its practical utility."-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
"Above all, we have to remember, Marx is greedy. He wants more of everything. He is suspicious of quality unless it is simply the mark of greater quantity: even if quality could exist alone, it would …"-Roberto Calasso, The Ruin of Kasch
21. Fato antico e Fato moderno
By: Giorgio de Santillana
4.28
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Negli anni in cui elaborava la sua opera capitale, Il mulino di Amleto, Giorgio de Santillana pubbl… read more
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