17 must-read fiction books like La sconfitta di Dio by Sergio Quinzio

Cover of La sconfitta di Dio by Sergio Quinzio

La sconfitta di Dio

By: Sergio Quinzio

3.62

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Questo libro pone, con una durezza che la brevità rende flagrante, la domanda essenziale, quella ch…

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Cover of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

1. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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  • philosophy
  • fiction
"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Cover of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again:  Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

2. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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  • philosophy
"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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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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  • philosophy
  • fiction
"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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"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

Cover of Metropole by George Szirtes, Ferenc Karinthy

5. Metropole

By: George Szirtes , Ferenc Karinthy

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A linguist flying to a conference in Helsinki has landed in a strange city where he can't understan… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Pale Fire

By: Vladimir Nabokov

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment

4.12

Format: 586 pages, Paperback

Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more

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  • fiction
"Now or never. To be or not to be!"

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"Love was life's hardest school of all."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."

-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

8. The Temptation to Exist

By: Richard Howard , Susan Sontag , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a liter… read more

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  • philosophy
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9. 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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  • fiction
"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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10. 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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  • philosophy
  • 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

11. Narcissus and Goldmund

By: Hermann Hesse , Ursule Molinaro

4.05

Format: 336 pages,

Narcissus and Goldmundtells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposi… read more

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12. Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

By: Richard Adams

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage an… read more

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13. Dissipatio H.G.

By: Guido Morselli

3.80

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysop… read more

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  • philosophy
  • fiction
"Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Morire biologicamente, è il perfezionarsi di uno stato in cui ci troviamo già ora."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Ho paura dell'uomo, come dei topi e delle zanzare, per il danno e il fastidio di cui è produttore inesausto."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Quello che abbiamo posseduto, ce lo possiamo mettere dietro le spalle, confinarlo nel passato, nel già-fatto."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

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14. House of Leaves

By: Mark Z. Danielewski

4.09

Format: 710 pages, Paperback

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more

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  • fiction
"I must read. I must read. I must read."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

15. Ore giapponesi

By: Fosco Maraini

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ritorna in una nuova edizione un classico della letteratura di viaggio: "Ore Giapponesi" di Fosco M… read more

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16. 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
  • fiction
"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

17. Lo stadio di Wimbledon

By: Daniele Del Giudice

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Il protagonista e un giovane che si mette sulle tracce di un personaggio singolare, amico di Saba e… read more

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18. I quindicimila passi: un resoconto

By: Vitaliano Trevisan

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Thomas conta i passi. Da casa alla questura, millecinquantatre passi. Da casa al tabaccaio, settece… read more

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19. La persona e il sacro

By: Simone Weil , None

0.00

Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Uno degli scritti piu celebri di Simone Weil, pubblicato in origine come saggio in <>n. 36 (dic. 19… read more

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20. The Way of Man

By: Martin Buber

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this s… read more

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21. Suite Française

By: Irène Némirovsky , Sandra Smith

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author w… read more

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22. Il tennis come esperienza religiosa

By: David Foster Wallace , Giovanna Granato

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Ci sono tre spiegazioni valide per l'ascesa di Federer. La prima ha a che vedere col mistero e la … read more

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23. The Kindly Ones

By: Jonathan Littell , Charlotte Mandell

3.94

Format: 229 pages,

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Timesof London "Oh my human brothers, let m… read more

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24. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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  • fiction
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Cover of The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy

25. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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26. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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27. Guerre

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more

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  • fiction
"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

Cover of Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) by Cormac McCarthy

28. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • philosophy
  • fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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29. The World as Will and Representation

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

4.26

Format: 1474 pages, Kindle Edition

The World as Will and Representation is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenha… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Atlante occidentale (Italian Edition) by Daniele Del Giudice

30. Atlante occidentale (Italian Edition)

By: Daniele Del Giudice

3.85

Format: 177 pages, Hardcover

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  • fiction
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31. La sconfitta di Dio

By: Sergio Quinzio

3.62

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Questo libro pone, con una durezza che la brevità rende flagrante, la domanda essenziale, quella ch… read more

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  • philosophy
  • fiction

10 Top philosophy books like La sconfitta di Dio by Sergio Quinzio

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Elementary Particles

Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

3.80

The Temptation to Exist

Richard Howard , Susan Sontag , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

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13 Top fiction books like Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander, Hayden Carruth

Transform Your Habits

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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