13 must-read fiction books like El hipogeo secreto by Salvador Elizondo

Cover of El hipogeo secreto by Salvador Elizondo

El hipogeo secreto

By: Salvador Elizondo

4.06

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

En El hipogeo secreto la realidad se crea al tiempo que toma forma de lenguaje; el lector es apenas…

If you liked the fiction plot in El hipogeo secreto by Salvador Elizondo , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Las batallas en el desierto by José Emilio Pacheco

1. Las batallas en el desierto

By: José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A novella depicts the harsh reality of life in urban Mexico and the tragedy of childhood innocence … read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Enamorarse sabiendo que todo está perdido y no hay ninguna esperanza."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Querer a alguien no es pecado, el amor está bien, lo único demoníaco es el odio."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

"Qué estupidez meterme en un lío que pude haber evitado con sólo resistirme a mi imbécil declaración de amor.Todo pasó como pasan los discos en la sinfonola."

-José Emilio Pacheco, Las batallas en el desierto

Cover of Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell

2. Things We Lost in the Fire

By: Mariana Enríquez , Megan McDowell

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In these wildly imaginative, devilishly daring tales of the macabre, internationally bestselling au… read more

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  • fiction
"El problema es que no nos creen."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Hace años que Lala decidió ser mujer y brasileña, pero había nacido varón y uruguayo."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Me acuerdo de la risa de mi madre, de lo joven que era esa tarde de verano, del olor a champú de limón de su pelo y de la carcajada de chicle de menta."

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

"Apagábamos las luces y jugábamos en la oscuridad con inciensos encendidos; parecían luciérnagas y a mí me hacían llorar, me hacían acordar a una casa de tejas con parque lejos de la ciudad, una casa …"

-Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire

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3. Night Train

By: Martin Amis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walki… read more

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  • fiction
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4. 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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  • literature
  • fiction
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5. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction

6. El huésped

By: Guadalupe Nettel

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

La extrana historia de una nina habitada interiormente por un ser inquietante, quizas imaginario, q… read more

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7. Öræfi

By: Ófeigur Sigurðsson

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Vorid 2003 kemur ungur madur ormagna og blodugur inn i Thjonustumidstodina i Skaftafelli eftir hrak… read more

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8. Antígona González

By: Sara Uribe

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

"Esta es la busqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en Mexico… read more

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9. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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10. Aura

By: Carlos Fuentes

3.82

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. Th… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
"Hay que morir antes de renacer."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"También el demonio fue un ángel, antes…"

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"Hay un momento en el que ya no es posible distinguir el paso de los años."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

"La soledad es necesaria para alcanzar la santidad. Se han olvidado de que en la soledad la tentación es más grande."

-Carlos Fuentes, Aura

11. 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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12. Amulet

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is … read more

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13. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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14. 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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15. The Poetics of Space

By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more

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Cover of Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

16. Monstrilio

By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more

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  • fiction
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"

-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

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17. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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18. Poeta chileno

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.39

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

En Santiago de Chile, a principios de los años noventa del pasado siglo, dos quinceañeros, Gonzalo … read more

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  • fiction
"fumar rabiosamente y aguantar las lágrimas, lo que no era fácil, porque fumar y llorar son actividades complementarias"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"Decir que eso la felicidad: nunca sentir que sería mejor estar en otra parte, nunca sentir que sería mejor ser alguien más. Otra persona. Alguien más joven, más viejo. Alguien mejor."

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"El padre señala con sutileza y autoridad la forma correcta de patear la pelota, porque el padre sabe de esas cosas. El padre se deja ganar, porque para ser un buen padre hay que dejarse ganar. Ser pa…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

"It is better to write than not to write. Poetry is subversive because it exposes you, tears you apart. You dare to distrust yourself. You dare to disobey. That's the idea, to disobey everyone. Disobe…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Poeta chileno

Cover of 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1) by Masaaki Nakayama

19. 後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1)

By: Masaaki Nakayama

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

...ha...ir......hand hand and.. ..an..d......fire..... ....be...hin...d......blood......u... ...sh.… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of El hipogeo secreto by Salvador Elizondo

20. El hipogeo secreto

By: Salvador Elizondo

4.06

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

En El hipogeo secreto la realidad se crea al tiempo que toma forma de lenguaje; el lector es apenas… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction

8 best-selling literature books like El hipogeo secreto by Salvador Elizondo

Transform Your Habits

Las batallas en el desierto

José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

None

Juan Rulfo , Margaret Sayers Peden , Susan Sontag

None

Transform Your Habits

El Llano en llamas

Juan Rulfo

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

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13 best-selling fiction books like El Llano en llamas by Juan Rulfo

Transform Your Habits

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Transform Your Habits

La tregua

Mario Benedetti

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Las batallas en el desierto

José Emilio Pacheco

4.13

Transform Your Habits

El principio del placer

José Emilio Pacheco

4.02

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