Le Sel Noir; Le Sang Rivé; Boises
By: Édouard Glissant
3.73
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Glissant, Edouar, Glissant, Aedouard
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1. Oblivion: Stories
By: David Foster Wallace
4.07
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity wi… read more
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"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
2. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
3. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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4. The Myth of Sisyphus
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more
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- france
"A fate is not a punishment."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"there are truths but no truth"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"To will is to stir up paradoxes"-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
5. Mexico City Blues
By: Jack Kerouac , Pierre Joris
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
Le poete Jack Kerouac nous livre, en 242 chorus poetiques, de superbes "meditations sensorielles". … read more
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- poetry
6. The Ravishing of Lol Stein
By: Marguerite Duras , None , Diệp Anh
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life--and a voyeur… read more
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7. Closer
By: Dennis Cooper
3.72
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind wit… read more
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8. The Counterfeiters
By: André Gide
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and it… read more
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9. Ubu Roi
By: Barbara Wright , Alfred Jarry , Franciszka Themerson
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main chara… read more
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10. Landscape Over Zero
By: Bei Dao
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Collects fifty poems in both Chinese and English that reflect futility, distance, and the possibili… read more
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11. Lost Illusions
By: Honoré de Balzac , Ellen Marriage , George Saintsbury
4.16
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his … read more
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"For avarice begins where poverty ends."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"ci sono uomini-quercia, io sono forse solo un arbusto elegante, e ho la pretesa di essere un cedro."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
"căci excesele de orice soi împing trupul pe calea spre care e predispus din naştere: ca şi învăţătura multă, beţia îl îngraşă pe cel gras şi îl slăbeşte pe cel slab."-Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
12. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.79
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more
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"Never be daunted"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"I am always in love."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
13. Shame
By: Annie Ernaux
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Thus begins Shame, … read more
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"People are forever remembering."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"We have no true memory of ourselves."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"Le pire dans la honte, c'est qu'on croit être seul à la ressentir"-Annie Ernaux, Shame
"anyone who doesn't speak "the way we do" is, to some extent, labeled a foreigner."-Annie Ernaux, Shame
14. 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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15. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more
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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
16. Fantaisies guérillères
By: Guillaume Lebrun
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
En ce début de xve siècle, tout est chaos au Royaume de France : les Englishes imposent leur présen… read more
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"Oh ! husband, pardonne, pardonne, je suis désaxée en esprit et ne sais plus ce que je fais !"-Guillaume Lebrun, Fantaisies guérillères
"Restée seule avec mon adorée, je voulus lui parler, maintes fois, mais aucun mot ne parvenait à franchir barrière de lèvres. Je m'en voulus si gigantesquement de ma façon d'estre que j'eusse pu me fa…"-Guillaume Lebrun, Fantaisies guérillères
"(...) l'imposture du Nazaréen était encore plus évidente. (...) Contrairement à ce qui était affirmé en biblerie, jamais n'eut de son vivant plus de suivants que douze pouillards, sa mère et son épou…"-Guillaume Lebrun, Fantaisies guérillères
17. Le Sel Noir; Le Sang Rivé; Boises
By: Édouard Glissant
3.73
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
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