14 Best france books like Requiem des innocents by Louis Calaferte

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Requiem des innocents

By: Louis Calaferte

4.09

Format: 217 pages, Pocket Book

Ce livre n'est pas un roman. Ici, nulle place pour l'imagination. La zone d'une grande ville, des b…

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1. La promesse de l'aube

By: Romain Gary

4.24

Format: 456 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: Older cover of ISBN 2070363732. – Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriel… read more

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"... văn chương là nơi nương tựa cuối cùng trên cõi đời cho những ai không biết náu mình vào đâu nữa"

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"Kartais man atrodo, kad gyvenu jau tik iš mandagumo, ir jeigu dar leidžiu plakti savo širdžiai, tai tik todėl, kad visada mėgau gyvūnus."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"... hạnh phúc là cái gì đó có thể đạt tới, chỉ cần tìm thấy thiên hướng sâu xa trong mình rồi hết lòng với những gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên cả bản thân."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

"At the darkest moments of the war, in the thick of the bat- tle, I always faced peril with a feeling of invincibility. Nothing could happen to me because was her happy ending."

-Romain Gary, La promesse de l'aube

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2. Elsa

By: Louis Aragon

4.23

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Ce poème d'Aragon est un "roman achevé", au sens où l'on dit qu'une oeuvre est achevée ; c'est un r… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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3. The Gay Science

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.11

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more

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4. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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5. Le sagouin

By: François Mauriac

3.94

Format: 111 pages,

Il semble que Francois Mauriac ait mis le meilleur de son art dans cette cruelle peinture d'une fam… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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6. The Devil in the Flesh

By: None , Raymond Radiguet

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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7. The Nose

By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more

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8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann

4.07

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be … read more

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"He who obeys, does not listen to himself!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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9. Poor Folk

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.78

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People,[note] is the f… read more

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"ويقال إنّ الفتى بوكروفسكي يشبه أمه كما تشبه قطرة من الماء قطرة من الماء."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أضرع إليك مرة أخرى: لا تنفق في سبيلي كل هذا الذي تنفقه. أنا أعرف أنك تحبني كثيرًا، ولكنك لست غنيًا."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"أوهام إنه ليتفق للمرء أن يخطئ تقدير ما يشعر به هو نفسه، وأن يسترسل في ترهات سخيفة. والذنب في ذلك كله انما هو ذنب هذا الطيش في قلبنا المندفع"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

"لماذا تعيش النفوس الطيبة النبيلة في الشقاء والهجران، بينما لا يحتاج غيرها حتى إلى البحث عن السعادة لأن السعادة هي التي تلقي بنفسها بين ذراعيه؟"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

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10. Le Grand Meaulnes

By: Alain-Fournier , None

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Immoralist

By: André Gide , David Watson , Alan Sheridan

3.55

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his o… read more

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  • fiction
"Existing is occupation enough."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"إنني اترك الماضي خلفي بعيدا كأنه عصفور يطير ويترك ظله."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

"Aynı zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olası değil."

-André Gide, The Immoralist

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12. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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Cover of The Unknown Masterpiece by Arthur C. Danto, Honoré de Balzac, Richard Howard

13. The Unknown Masterpiece

By: Arthur C. Danto , Honoré de Balzac , Richard Howard

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painte… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
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14. 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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15. Manon Lescaut

By: Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Leonard Tancock , None

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

"'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to … read more

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16. La Vallée des rubis

By: Joseph Kessel

3.48

Format: None pages, Poche

Plus secrete que La Mecque, plus difficile d'acces que Lhassa, il existe au coeur de la jungle birm… read more

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17. Writing

By: Marguerite Duras

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written in the splendid bareness of her late style, these pages are Marguerite Duras's theory of li… read more

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18. Le Soleil des Scorta

By: Laurent Gaudé

3.80

Format: 275 pages, Mass Market Paperback

L'origine de leur lignee condamne les Scorta a l'opprobre. A Montepuccio, leur petit village d'Ital… read more

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19. Alcools

By: Guillaume Apollinaire , Donald Revell

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Alcools, first published in 1913 and one of the few indispensable books of twentieth- century poetr… read more

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20. Anima

By: Wajdi Mouawad

4.02

Format: 360 pages,

Lorsqu'il decouvre le meurtre de sa femme, Wahhch Debch est tetanise : il doit a tout prix savoir q… read more

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21. Chess Story

By: Stefan Zweig , Joel Rotenberg , Peter Gay , None , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement,… read more

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22. 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

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  • 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

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23. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

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  • france
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

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24. Veiller sur elle

By: Jean-Baptiste Andrea

4.28

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

​Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissag… read more

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"Les mots ont un sens, nommer c'est comprendre"

-Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Veiller sur elle

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25. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more

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"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

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26. Life for Sale

By: Yukio Mishima

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more

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"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

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27. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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28. We Are Not Born Submissive. How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

By: Manon Garcia

3.91

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers--especially… read more

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  • france
"It does not come from the fact that women are naturally more able to perceive dirty laundry or that men are blind to housework but from the fact that perception has a social dimension and is shaped b…"

-Manon Garcia, We Are Not Born Submissive. How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

"The silencing in social domination functions in two ways. First, one of the effects of social domination is that the dominated are often deprived of the necessary conditions to be able to express the…"

-Manon Garcia, We Are Not Born Submissive. How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives

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29. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from se… read more

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30. Requiem des innocents

By: Louis Calaferte

4.09

Format: 217 pages, Pocket Book

Ce livre n'est pas un roman. Ici, nulle place pour l'imagination. La zone d'une grande ville, des b… read more

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  • fiction
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31. L'ordinaire de la littérature : Que peut (encore) la théorie littéraire ?

By: Florent Coste

4.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

La théorie littéraire a été désertée. Trop formelle, trop abstraite, elle semblait réduire les text… read more

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17 Best fiction books like Requiem des innocents by Louis Calaferte

Transform Your Habits

La promesse de l'aube

Romain Gary

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Elsa

Louis Aragon

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Le sagouin

François Mauriac

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Devil in the Flesh

None , Raymond Radiguet

4.40

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Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.

Noor Hindi

4.52

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What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

Raja Shehadeh

4.34

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The Age of Grievance

Frank Bruni

4.13

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Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction

Maia Szalavitz

4.54

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