21 Best fiction books like Le monstre: Et autres pièces by Ágota Kristóf

Cover of Le monstre: Et autres pièces by Ágota Kristóf

Le monstre: Et autres pièces

By: Ágota Kristóf

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ce volume réunit quatre pièces théâtrales d''Agota Kristof.Le Un animal gigantesque est tombé dans…

If you liked the fiction plot in Le monstre: Et autres pièces by Ágota Kristóf , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Mirra Ginsburg, Michail Bulgakov

1. Heart of a Dog

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov

4.10

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more

Similar categories in Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"A dog's spirit dies hard."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

Cover of D'après une histoire vraie by Delphine de Vigan

2. D'après une histoire vraie

By: Delphine de Vigan

3.94

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

"Ce livre est le récit de ma rencontre avec L. L. est le cauchemar de tout écrivain. Ou plutôt le g… read more

Similar categories in Delphine de Vigan's D'après une histoire vraie book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"Toda escrita de si é um romance. A narrativa é uma ilusão."

-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie

"... de certains mots, de certains regards on ne guérit pas. Malgré le temps passé, malgré la douceur d'autres mots et d'autres regards."

-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie

"L'idée de la campagne était pour moi synonyme d'isolement, contenait une notion inhérente de danger. La Campagne était associée à la peur et à une certaine idée d'enfermement."

-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie

"L'écriture doit être une recherche de vérité, sinon elle n'est rien. Si à travers l'écriture tu ne cherches pas à te connaitre, à fouiller ce qui t'habite, ce qui te constitue, à rouvrir tes blessure…"

-Delphine de Vigan, D'après une histoire vraie

Cover of The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch

3. The Chronology of Water

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the r… read more

Similar categories in Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

"my parents Oedipal fakers"

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"...what is a couple over time but a line..."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

Cover of The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray, Maxine Hong Kingston

4. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

Similar categories in Marguerite Duras's The Lover book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Cover of Danse Macabre by Stephen        King

5. Danse Macabre

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The author whose boundless imagination & storytelling powers have redefined the horror genre, from … read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's Danse Macabre book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

Cover of The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel D. Cioran

6. The Crocodile

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Samuel D. Cioran

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Crocodile book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

7. Address Unknown

By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it fi… read more

Similar categories in Kathrine Kressmann Taylor's Address Unknown book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of Littoral by Wajdi Mouawad, Isabelle Leblanc

8. Littoral

By: Wajdi Mouawad , Isabelle Leblanc

3.60

Format: 253 pages,

En apprenant la mort de son pere inconnu, l'orphelin Wilfrid decide de lui offrir une sepulture dan… read more

Similar categories in Wajdi Mouawad's Littoral book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • theatre
  • fiction

9. Peach

By: Emma Glass

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Introducing a dazzling new literary voice--a wholly original novel as groundbreaking as the works o… read more

Similar categories in Emma Glass's Peach book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

Cover of Incendies by Wajdi Mouawad

10. Incendies

By: Wajdi Mouawad

4.37

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Lorsque le notaire Lebel fait aux jumeaux Jeanne et Simon Marwan la lecture du testament de leur mè… read more

Similar categories in Wajdi Mouawad's Incendies book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • theatre
  • fiction
"L'enfance est un couteau planté dans la gorge."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Maintenant que nous sommes ensemble, ça va mieux."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Ce n'est jamais bon signe lorsque la jeunesse s'enfuit."

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

"Every balle que je mets dans le fusil, Is like a poème. And I shoot a poème to the people and it is the précision of my poème qui tue les gens"

-Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies

11. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

By: Jonathan Lethem , Vivian Gornick

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle wi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's Fierce Attachments: A Memoir book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

12. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

Similar categories in Luigi Pirandello's One, None, and One Hundred Thousand book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

13. Diario di un killer sentimentale

By: Luis Sepúlveda , Ilide Carmignani

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Un professionista e sempre un professionista, ma la giornata era iniziata male: faceva un caldo inf… read more

Similar categories in Luis Sepúlveda's Diario di un killer sentimentale book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

14. Novecento. Un monologo

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Il Virginianera un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, co… read more

Similar categories in Alessandro Baricco's Novecento. Un monologo book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

Cover of The Weight of Things by None, Marianne Fritz

15. The Weight of Things

By: None , Marianne Fritz

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only transl… read more

Similar categories in None's The Weight of Things book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"..the present is always the best time to spread your arms wide and embrace the whole world, all at once, as best you can."

-None, The Weight of Things

"...the ideal legal form being, it goes without saying, the one in which the least taxes are paid and the company is least vulnerable to any official prying."

-None, The Weight of Things

Cover of Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

16. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

Similar categories in Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

Cover of Le Jardin, Paris by Gaëlle Geniller

17. Le Jardin, Paris

By: Gaëlle Geniller

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Le Jardin" est un cabaret parisien au succès grandissant dirigé par une femme. Toutes celles qui … read more

Similar categories in Gaëlle Geniller's Le Jardin, Paris book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of Como bestias by Violaine Bérot

18. Como bestias

By: Violaine Bérot

4.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Un pueblo aislado en las montañas; un joven de fuerza sobrehumana con un don para sanar a los anima… read more

Similar categories in Violaine Bérot's Como bestias book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of La mala costumbre by Alana S. Portero

19. La mala costumbre

By: Alana S. Portero

4.55

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more

Similar categories in Alana S. Portero's La mala costumbre book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."

-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre

Cover of Mañana y tarde by Jon Fosse

20. Mañana y tarde

By: Jon Fosse

3.88

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's Mañana y tarde book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

Cover of Bajar es lo peor by Mariana Enríquez

21. Bajar es lo peor

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Bajar es lo peor, la primera novela de Mariana Enriquez, publicada en 1995, de reciente reaparición… read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's Bajar es lo peor book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of Stai zitta e altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più by Michela Murgia

22. Stai zitta e altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più

By: Michela Murgia

4.25

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Di tutte le cose che le donne possono fare nel mondo, parlare è ancora considerata la più sovversiv… read more

Similar categories in Michela Murgia's Stai zitta e altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

"Volere è potere, dice il proverbio, ma alle donne si lascia credere che il loro potere sia invece quello di essere volute. È un inganno: desiderare ti rende soggetto attivo e ti educa a scegliere, in…"

-Michela Murgia, Stai zitta e altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più

"Sapevano, come dobbiamo sapere noi, che il patriarcato è un sistema muscolare e rispetta solo ciò che teme. Per questo, per raggiungere quelli che oggi chiamiamo traguardi, migliaia di donne hanno pa…"

-Michela Murgia, Stai zitta e altre nove frasi che non vogliamo sentire più

Cover of Poeta chileno by Alejandro Zambra

23. 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

Similar categories in Alejandro Zambra's Poeta chileno book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • 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 Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda

24. Jawbone

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more

Similar categories in Mónica Ojeda's Jawbone book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"

-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

Cover of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

25. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

Similar categories in Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Cover of La educación física by Rosario Villajos

26. La educación física

By: Rosario Villajos

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

«El jurado del Premio Biblioteca Breve 2023 ha destacado La educación física , novela ganadora por … read more

Similar categories in Rosario Villajos's La educación física book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of Et à la fin, ils meurent: La sale vérité sur les contes de fées by Lou Lubie

27. Et à la fin, ils meurent: La sale vérité sur les contes de fées

By: Lou Lubie

4.51

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Quels terribles secrets cachent les contes de fées ? Derrière leur réputation d'histoires un peu n… read more

Similar categories in Lou Lubie's Et à la fin, ils meurent: La sale vérité sur les contes de fées book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

"En sauvant les contes de fées de l'oubli, les adaptation de Disney ont fini par être perçues comme les "vraies" versions... pour le meilleur et pour le pire."

-Lou Lubie, Et à la fin, ils meurent: La sale vérité sur les contes de fées

"Les contes de fées étaient des récits ancestraux, profondément symboliques, remodelés de siècle en siècle par la parole et l'écrit... Aujourd'hui, ils servent de matière première à des œuvres qui, te…"

-Lou Lubie, Et à la fin, ils meurent: La sale vérité sur les contes de fées

Cover of Me verás caer by Mariana Travacio

28. Me verás caer

By: Mariana Travacio

4.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Vuelve la argentina Mariana Travacio con una colección de relatos en los que demuestra una nueva fa… read more

Similar categories in Mariana Travacio's Me verás caer book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of Méduse by Martine Desjardins

29. Méduse

By: Martine Desjardins

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Dès l’enfance, elle apprend à baisser la tête. On l’a sommée d’épargner aux autres la vue de ses Di… read more

Similar categories in Martine Desjardins's Méduse book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • fiction
Cover of Tienes que mirar by Anna Starobinets

30. Tienes que mirar

By: Anna Starobinets

4.52

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

En 2012, la escritora Anna Starobinets descubrió, en una visita rutinaria al médico, que el hijo qu… read more

Similar categories in Anna Starobinets's Tienes que mirar book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

"No se puede recuperar lo perdido. Aquellos que han perdido su apariencia humana no pueden convertirse de nuevo en personas. Pero el sistema se puede corregir y esa es mi esperanza. Por eso indico los…"

-Anna Starobinets, Tienes que mirar

Cover of Le monstre: Et autres pièces by Ágota Kristóf

31. Le monstre: Et autres pièces

By: Ágota Kristóf

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ce volume réunit quatre pièces théâtrales d''Agota Kristof.Le Un animal gigantesque est tombé dans… read more

Similar categories in Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces book and Ágota Kristóf's Le monstre: Et autres pièces

  • theatre
  • fiction

21 Best fiction books like The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

Transform Your Habits

Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

Transform Your Habits

I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Bad Girls

Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.