5 Top philosophy books like Houellebecq économiste by Bernard Maris

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Houellebecq économiste

By: Bernard Maris

3.58

Format: 155 pages, Broché

Servitude, frustration, angoisse sous l'impitoyable « loi de l'offre et de la demande » ou celle de…

"Atreveos a mirar lo que sois, pequeños esclavos bien alimentados, atreveos a mirar la ruina a que os conduce vuestra prisa. Competid para arrojaros de lo alto de los acantilados, como los cerdos de la Biblia. ¡Atreveos a contemplar vuestro suicidio colectivo! No tengáis miedo de la felicidad: no existe. "

-Bernard Maris, Houellebecq économiste

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1. The House of Sleep

By: Jonathan Coe

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows fo… read more

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  • literature
"This is the crazed, manic energy of the bull at the end of the fight, fatally wounded but ploughing ahead, driven only by pain and anger and the mindless will to go on living."

-Jonathan Coe, The House of Sleep

"...quando perdi qualcuno e questo qualcuno ti manca, tu soffri perché la persona assente si è trasformata in un essere immaginario: irreale. Ma il tuo desiderio di lei non è immaginario. Così è a que…"

-Jonathan Coe, The House of Sleep

"Your gravity, your grace have turned a tide In me, no lunar power can reverse; But in your narcoleptic eyes I spied A sightlessness tonight: or something worse, A disregard that made me feel unmanned…"

-Jonathan Coe, The House of Sleep

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2. La carte et le territoire

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.95

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Si Jed Martin, le personnage principal de ce roman, devait vous en raconter l’histoire, il commence… read more

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  • literature
  • france
"Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Jed then realized that he was standing in a book, and wondered if this book told the story of his life."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Las flores son sólo órganos sexuales, vaginas abigarradas que adornan la superficie del mundo, entregadas a la lubricidad de los insectos."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

"Ciudată e uneori omenirea. Din nefericire, cel mai adesea era genul ciudată și respingătoare, și doar arareori de genul ciudat și încântător."

-Michel Houellebecq, La carte et le territoire

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3. The Elementary Particles

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • france
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"

-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

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4. L'Avversario

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris

3.99

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

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5. The Possibility of an Island

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Albert Camus, Michel Houellebec… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • france
"La solitude à deux est l'enfer consenti."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Si la sincérité, en elle-même, n'est rien, elle est la condition de tout."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"Et l'amour, où tout est facile, Où tout est donné dans l'instant; Il existe au milieu du temps La possibilité d'une île."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

"The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are."

-Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island

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6. Concrete Island

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over th… read more

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  • literature
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7. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

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8. Dream Story

By: Frederic Raphael , Arthur Schnitzler , J.M.Q. Davies

3.76

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931… read more

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  • literature
"El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"متأكدة بقدر حدسي أن حقيقة ليلة، بل حتى حقيقة حياة إنسان بأكملها، لا تعني في الوقت ذاته حقيقته الداخلية."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"بدا له أنه لو وقف وحده سافِر الوجه بين كل هؤلاء المقنَّعين، فسيكون الأمر أسوأ آلاف المرات من أن يقف فجأة عاريًا بين اللابسين"

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

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Paul Hammond

9. Whatever

By: Michel Houellebecq , Paul Hammond

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par exce… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • france
"En su lugar, una víbora ya se habría suicidado."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Me considero un tipo normal. Bueno, puede que no exactamente, pero ¿Quién lo es exactamente? Digamos que soy normal al 80%."

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Il me dit: « Vous avez dû avoir peur. » Je réponds oui pour ne pas faire d'histoires, mais en fait je n'ai pas eu peur du tout, j'ai juste eu l'impression que j'allais crever dans les prochaines minu…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

"Een vrouw die in de handen van de psychoanalytici is gevallen wordt totaal en voorgoed onbruikbaar. Dat fenomeen moet niet als een neveneffect van de psychoanalyse worden beschouwd maar wel degelijk …"

-Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

10. Lanzarote

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse,… read more

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11. H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

By: Stephen King , Michel Houellebecq , None

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

In this prescient work, Michel Houellebecq focuses his considerable analytical skills on H. P. Love… read more

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12. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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13. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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  • literature
  • france
"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

14. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more

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15. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

By: David Foster Wallace

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more

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16. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer

By: Paul Schrader

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed director of Mishima, American Gigolo, Hard Core, Blue Collar, Cat People also the scr… read more

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17. Soumission

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more

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  • literature
  • france
"It’s submission,"

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"There is no Israel for me."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

"I was about as political as a bath towel."

-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

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18. The Young Man

By: Annie Ernaux

3.61

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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19. I baffi

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.73

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

È quasi un capriccio, uno scherzo, quello di tagliarsi i baffi, da parte del protagonista di questo… read more

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  • literature
  • france
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20. Om udregning af rumfang I

By: Solvej Balle

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

''Om udregning af rumfang I'' er første del af Solvej Balles roman i syv dele, der hører til i genr… read more

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21. Yoga

By: Emmanuel Carrère

3.87

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

C'est l'histoire d'un livre sur le yoga et la dépression. La méditation et le terrorisme. L'aspirat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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22. Quelques mois dans ma vie: Octobre 2022 - Mars 2023

By: Michel Houellebecq

2.59

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Pour la première fois dans ma vie je me sentis traité, absolument, comme l'objet d'un documentaire… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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23. Paradais

By: Fernanda Melchor

3.64

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, l… read more

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"It was fatboy's fault, that's what he would tell them"

-Fernanda Melchor, Paradais

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24. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • literature
  • france
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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25. Red Pill

By: Hari Kunzru

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a w… read more

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  • literature
"Now what I think of when I think of my “self"

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

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26. Gullbrikkespillet

By: Asle Toje

4.22

Format: 354 pages, None

Forlagets omtale: Alle vet at i Europa gnisser en ny, innvandret underklasse mot den innfødte tryg… read more

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27. En présence de Schopenhauer

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.41

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

L’oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq est marquée par la pensée de Schopenhauer. Il ne cesse de se réclame… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
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28. Falsa partenza (Italian Edition)

By: Marion Messina

3.50

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

Aurélie ha vent'anni. È francese, viene dalla provincia, da una famiglia operaia che ha condotto un… read more

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  • france
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29. Houellebecq économiste

By: Bernard Maris

3.58

Format: 155 pages, Broché

Servitude, frustration, angoisse sous l'impitoyable « loi de l'offre et de la demande » ou celle de… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Maris's Houellebecq économiste book and Bernard Maris's Houellebecq économiste

  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • france
"Atreveos a mirar lo que sois, pequeños esclavos bien alimentados, atreveos a mirar la ruina a que os conduce vuestra prisa. Competid para arrojaros de lo alto de los acantilados, como los cerdos de l…"

-Bernard Maris, Houellebecq économiste

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30. De schaduwelite voor en na de crisis

By: Ewald Engelen

3.47

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

'De schaduwelite voor en na de crisis' beschrijft met veel vaart hoe de financiële elite Amsterdam … read more

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14 must-read literature books like Houellebecq économiste by Bernard Maris

Transform Your Habits

The House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe

3.94

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La carte et le territoire

Michel Houellebecq

3.95

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The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

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The Possibility of an Island

Michel Houellebecq

3.80

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Tao Lin

3.33

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Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

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Là-Bas

Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

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Mircea Cărtărescu

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