The Secret Heart of the Clock
By: Elias Canetti
3.95
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimo…
Want to Read $ 0.75"Un seul beau son est plus beau qu’un long parler."-Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock
"Un seul beau son est plus beau qu’un long parler."-Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock
"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort."-Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock
"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort."-Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock
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1. On the Marble Cliffs
By: Stuart Hood , George Steiner , Ernst Jünger
3.80
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The peaceful and traditional people, located on the shores of a large bay, are surrounded by the ro… read more
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- german literature
- philosophy
"The downfall of order brings good to none."-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"We cannot count on seeing our work completed here below, and happy is the man whose will is not too painfully invested in his efforts. No house is built, no plan created, in which ruin is not the cor…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
"I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and…"-Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs
2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
3. Professor Andersens natt
By: Dag Solstad
3.38
Format: 140 pages, Unknown Binding
An existential murder story. A master of Norwegian literature critiques contemporary society with w… read more
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"„В сравнение с Пер Екерберг професор Андершен се чувстваше като старомоден мъж в петдесетте си години. Държеше на възгледите си, без всъщност да ги харесва, и ако можеше, с удоволствие би ги заменил …"-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt
"„Съмнявам се, ужасно много се съмнявам в собствената си функция в това време, което вече не понасям. Зъбът на времето, той ме гризе и съсипва всичко. Зъбът на времето гризе и най-върховите интелектуа…"-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt
"He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. - but thought solely that it enlightened …"-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt
"Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we say when we say it is a matter of the greatest significance. Because …"-Dag Solstad, Professor Andersens natt
4. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
5. The Kreutzer Sonata
By: Doris Lessing , Leo Tolstoy , Isai Kamen
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partne… read more
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"In a large city the unhappy feel their sadness less acutely."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Удивительное дело, какая полная бывает иллюзия того, что красота есть добро."-Doris Lessing, The Kreutzer Sonata
6. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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7. On Being Blue
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a philosophical approach to color, Gass explores man's perception of the color blue as well as i… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
8. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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9. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- german literature
10. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
By: Jeff VanderMeer , Thomas Ligotti
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two terrifying classics by "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction" (TheWashington Pos… read more
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11. Holy Blood, Holy Grail
By: Michael Baigent , Richard Leigh , Henry Lincoln
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The P… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Hadji Murad
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In 1851 Leo Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and was sent to the Caucasus to help defeat the Ch… read more
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13. View With a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
By: Wisława Szymborska , Stanisław Barańczak , Clare Cavanagh
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In these 100 poems Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and richness, in wh… read more
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14. The Difficulty of Being
By: Jean Cocteau , Elizabeth Sprigge , Ned Rorem
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
15. Gathering Evidence
By: Thomas Bernhard
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an e… read more
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- nonfiction
16. 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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- german 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
17. 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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"And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica."-Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
"I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire."-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
18. Der Besuch der alten Dame
By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
>>Claire Zachanassian, eine amerikanische Multimillionarin, kehrt in ihr Heimatdorf Gullen zuruck, … read more
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- german literature
19. Ham on Rye
By: Charles Bukowski
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more
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20. Red Harvest
By: Dashiell Hammett
4.12
Format: 652 pages, ebook
The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more
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21. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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- philosophy
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
22. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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- philosophy
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
23. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
24. The System of Objects
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
The System of Objectsis a tour de force--a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in … read more
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25. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
26. Darkness at Noon
By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy
4.11
Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more
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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
27. 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
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"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
28. Trilogía
By: Jon Fosse
3.90
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Trilogía es un libro diferente. Es hipnótico. Para Jon Fosse escribir es como rezar y, para el lect… read more
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29. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
30. Chasing Homer
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.72
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted man escapes certain death at breakneck speed—carooming … read more
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31. The Secret Heart of the Clock
By: Elias Canetti
3.95
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimo… read more
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- diary
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- bulgaria
- essays
"Un seul beau son est plus beau qu’un long parler."-Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock
"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort."-Elias Canetti, The Secret Heart of the Clock
