9 best-selling philosophy books like Les Chiens de garde by Paul Nizan

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Les Chiens de garde

By: Paul Nizan

3.90

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

L’actualité des Chiens de garde, nous aurions préféré ne pas en éprouver la robuste fraîcheur. Nous…

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Cover of The Society of the Spectacle by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Guy Debord

1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • france
  • nonfiction
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. Charlotte

By: David Foenkinos

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ce roman retrace la vie de Charlotte Salomon, artiste peintre morte à vingt-six ans alors qu'elle é… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
"La dicha se convierte en una isla en el pasado, inaccesible."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

"She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

"Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion."

-David Foenkinos, Charlotte

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3. 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

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  • france
"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

"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

"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

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4. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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5. The Age of Reason

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

4.17

Format: None pages,

The first fully Existentialist fiction by the creator of a philosophical movement that captured the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
Cover of Baise-Moi by Virginie Despentes, Bruce Benderson

6. Baise-Moi

By: Virginie Despentes , Bruce Benderson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Baise-Moiis one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes … read more

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  • france
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7. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of The Plague by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert

8. The Plague

By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more

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  • philosophy
  • france
"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

Cover of Viper's Tangle by Robert Coles, François Mauriac

9. Viper's Tangle

By: Robert Coles , François Mauriac

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century's greatest Catholic writers, Vipers' Tangle tells t… read more

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  • france
Cover of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock, Norman MacAfee

10. Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo , Lee Fahnestock , Norman MacAfee

4.20

Format: 1463 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped … read more

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  • france
"Be happy without picking flaws."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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11. Huis clos, suivi de Les mouches

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • france
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12. La Tresse

By: Laetitia Colombani

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Smita, Julia, Sarah. Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Trois chemins que rien ne destine … read more

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  • france
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13. Martin Eden

By: Jack London , Andrew Sinclair

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

The semiautobiographical Martin Edenis the most vital and original character Jack London ever creat… read more

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14. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

15. Les Justes

By: Albert Camus

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Mass Market Paperback

1905 clis t`ebervalshi, moskovshi, teroristt`a jgup`ma, romelix soc`ialistur-revoluc`iur partias mi… read more

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16. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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17. Vernon Subutex, 1 (Vernon Subutex, #1)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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18. What is Literature?

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Bernard Frechtman

3.91

Format: 434 pages,

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentiet… read more

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19. Rhinocéros

By: Eugène Ionesco , None

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stereotyp… read more

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20. Thérèse Desqueyroux

By: François Mauriac

1.00

Format: None pages,

Pour eviter le scandale et proteger les interets de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme T… read more

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21. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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  • france
"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

22. The Words

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Bernard Frechtman

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau… read more

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23. The Reprieve

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Eric Sutton

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the… read more

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24. Vernon Subutex 3 (Vernon Subutex, #3)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Vous l'attendez depuis deux ans, le voici ! Vernon Subutex 3, le retour de Vernon, suite et fin de … read more

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25. Apocalypse Bébé

By: Virginie Despentes

4.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Valentine disparue... Qui la cherche vraiment ? Entre satire sociale, polar contemporain et romance… read more

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26. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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27. À la ligne

By: Joseph Ponthus

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

À la ligne est le premier roman de Joseph Ponthus. C’est l’histoire d’un ouvrier intérimaire qui em… read more

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  • politics
  • france
Cover of Le Monde sans fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici

28. Le Monde sans fin

By: Jean-Marc Jancovici

4.47

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

La rencontre entre un auteur majeur de la bande dessinée et un éminent spécialiste des questions én… read more

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  • france
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29. On the Critique of Violence

By: Walter Benjamin

4.00

Format: 28 pages, None

"Dieser Band vereinigt fünf Texte, die in einem inneren Zusammenhang stehen; sie zeigen die Entwick… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Défaire la police by Jérôme Baschet

30. Défaire la police

By: Jérôme Baschet

4.24

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

« Faut-il en finir avec la police ? » La question se pose avec une nouvelle intensité depuis le mou… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Les Chiens de garde

By: Paul Nizan

3.90

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

L’actualité des Chiens de garde, nous aurions préféré ne pas en éprouver la robuste fraîcheur. Nous… read more

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8 best-selling politics books like Les Chiens de garde by Paul Nizan

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Transform Your Habits

À la ligne

Joseph Ponthus

4.14

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5 best-selling politics books like Le Monde sans fin by Jean-Marc Jancovici

Transform Your Habits

Sois jeune et tais-toi : Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse

Salomé Saqué

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Le Monde sans fin

Jean-Marc Jancovici

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Capital et Idéologie en bande dessinée. D'après le livre de Thomas Piketty

Claire Alet

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Ralentir ou périr: L'économie de la décroissance (French Edition)

Timothée Parrique

4.49

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