14 must-read classics books like El otro, el mismo by Jorge Luis Borges

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El otro, el mismo

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.22

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Borges fue siempre el otro Borges desdoblado en otro Borges, hasta el infinito. A través de variaci…

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1. A Season in Hell

By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more

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  • poetry
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"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

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2. The Economic Consequences of the Peace

By: John Maynard Keynes

3.97

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more

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"In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

"With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

"When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

"By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft."

-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace

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3. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Yoshihiro Tatsumi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the sou… read more

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  • classics
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4. 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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5. 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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  • classics
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6. Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

By: Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein

3.85

Format: 320 pages, cloth

Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, th… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
"My heart's a dance of fear."

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"Quando dorme la mente scintilla di mille occhi"

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Onc…"

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

7. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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8. The Captain's Verses

By: Pablo Neruda , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

New Directions celebrates the Pablo Neruda Centennial. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of P… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics

9. The Loser

By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more

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  • classics
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10. 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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  • poetry
  • classics
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11. Memoirs of Hadrian

By: Marguerite Yourcenar , Grace Frick

4.23

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has… read more

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  • classics
"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."

-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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12. Martín Fierro

By: José Hernández

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

An epic poem of Argentina, in the "gauchesque" style. An adaptation of the ballad singing culture o… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
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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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  • classics
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14. 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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  • classics

15. Las armas secretas

By: Julio Cortázar

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

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16. Tales of Ordinary Madness

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Inspired by D.H. Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has… read more

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17. Orbitor. Aripa stângă

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Suntem omizi si vom deveni fluturi, iata intreaga noastra poveste, tot sensul nostru in lume, intr-… read more

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18. El libro vacío

By: None

4.70

Format: 84 pages,

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19. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Yvette Siegert

3.28

Format: 404 pages, ebook

Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasu… read more

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20. El cementerio marino

By: Paul Valéry , Jorge Guillén , None , None

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fruto de un largo periodo de introspeccion y de madura reflexion, pocas obras liricas han alcanzado… read more

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21. Song of Myself

By: Walt Whitman

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, "Song of Myself" is an optimistic and inspirat… read more

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22. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

By: Octavio Paz , Lysander Kemp , Yara Milos

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this internationa… read more

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23. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

24. El gallo de oro

By: Juan Rulfo

3.84

Format: 223 pages,

El gallo de oro fue considerado por Juan Rulfo como una Novela o un Cuento en declaraciones de la d… read more

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25. Man in the Dark

By: Paul Auster

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Man in the Dark is Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit a… read more

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26. The Dream of Heroes

By: Adolfo Bioy Casares , None

3.86

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

At the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that he knew was the culmination of his… read more

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27. The Right to Be Lazy

By: Paul Lafargue , None

4.28

Format: None pages,

Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, e… read more

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28. Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas

By: Antonio Machado

4.46

Format: 192 pages,

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29. Purgatory

By: Raúl Zurita , None

3.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Raul Zurita's "Purgatory, " a landmark in contemporary Latin American poetry, records the physical,… read more

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30. El otro, el mismo

By: Jorge Luis Borges

4.22

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Borges fue siempre el otro Borges desdoblado en otro Borges, hasta el infinito. A través de variaci… read more

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A Season in Hell

Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

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Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein

3.85

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Boethius , None

4.27

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Pablo Neruda , None

4.27

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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

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Mario Benedetti

4.18

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José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

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