Cool Memories
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jean Baudrillard’s last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa Romeas, l…
Want to Read"From the holocaust to the hologram: a fine programme."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
"Amid the luxurious freshness of Ipanema each building has its own secret police."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
"Let us turn our gaze towards the Southern lands, where only the melancholy light of origins shines."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
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1. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
2. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- philosophy
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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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"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
4. After Dark
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.74
Format: 191 pages, Hardcover
In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychologica… read more
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"With luck, it might even snow for us."-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
"Is it against the law for me to know it?"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
"The silence is so deep it hurts our ears"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
"Are you asking because you really want an answer?"-Haruki Murakami, After Dark
5. A Moment of True Feeling
By: Peter Handke
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of Peter Handke's novel, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has… read more
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"Tengo ganas de andar, simplemente andar. No puedo hacer ya otra cosa."-Peter Handke, A Moment of True Feeling
"y si de pronto hablaba tanto de sí mismo, de su vida «anterior», solo lo hacía para distraer la atención de su persona."-Peter Handke, A Moment of True Feeling
"Por primera vez sentía placer al mostrarse desnudo, y no a una sola persona, sino a todo un grupo; en vez de pasar simplemente, se plantó delante de todos."-Peter Handke, A Moment of True Feeling
"En la habitación de la niña tuvo la sensación de despedirse de algo, no de la niña, sino de la manera de vivir que hasta ahora le había correspondido vivir. Ya no existía ninguna manera de vivir para…"-Peter Handke, A Moment of True Feeling
6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. The Sublime Object of Ideology
By: Slavoj Žižek , Ernesto Laclau
3.50
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this provocative and original work, Slavoj Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
8. City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
By: Paul Auster
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glassinaugurates an intriguing N… read more
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9. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more
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10. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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11. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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- philosophy
12. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
By: William H. Gass
4.07
Format: 242 pages,
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13. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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- nonfiction
14. 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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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"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
15. Thomas the Obscure
By: Maurice Blanchot , Robert Lamberton
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ul… read more
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- philosophy
16. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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17. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
18. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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20. El túnel
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages,
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more
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21. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
22. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
By: Tao Lin
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy a 23-year-old person attempts to explain to himself the possible or… read more
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24. Nazi Literature in the Americas
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more
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25. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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- philosophy
"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
26. The Madness of the Day
By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism) of The Madness of the Daythat it is "a sto… read more
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27. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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28. 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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"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
29. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- nonfiction
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
30. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
31. Cool Memories
By: Jean Baudrillard
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jean Baudrillard’s last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa Romeas, l… read more
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- theory
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
"From the holocaust to the hologram: a fine programme."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
"Amid the luxurious freshness of Ipanema each building has its own secret police."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
"Let us turn our gaze towards the Southern lands, where only the melancholy light of origins shines."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."-Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
