10 must-read fiction books like Potsdamer Platz; or, The Nights of the New Messiah Ecstatic Visions by Curt Corrinth

Cover of Potsdamer Platz; or, The Nights of the New Messiah Ecstatic Visions by Curt Corrinth

Potsdamer Platz; or, The Nights of the New Messiah Ecstatic Visions

By: Curt Corrinth

2.71

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A frenzied German Expressionist tale of orgy as salvation in Weimar Berlin Originally published …

If you liked the fiction plot in Potsdamer Platz; or, The Nights of the New Messiah Ecstatic Visions by Curt Corrinth , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe by François-René de Chateaubriand

1. Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

By: François-René de Chateaubriand

3.96

Format: 1504 pages, Paperback

The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies By the time … read more

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"It is a long way from these strict parents to the child-spoilers of today."

-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

"Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not."

-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

"There are only two true things: intelligent religion and youthful love, which is to say the future and the present. The rest is not worth the trouble"

-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

"Life is spent hovering round our tomb. Our various sicknesses are but the winds which carry us more or less near to the haven. … Death is our friend, nevertheless we do not recognise it as such, beca…"

-François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

Cover of Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel, Dovid Bergelson

2. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

3. Murder Most Serene

By: Gabrielle Wittkop , Louise Lalaurie

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In the last days of the Venetian Republic, the successive wives of Count Alvise Lanzi suffer myster… read more

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4. Sklepy cynamonowe; Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą

By: Bruno Schulz

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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5. The Torture Garden

By: Octave Mirbeau

3.00

Format: None pages,

Lidandets lustgardav Octave Mirbeau ar en av de stora dekadenta klassikerna. Romanen vackte enormt … read more

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6. We Had to Remove This Post

By: Hanna Bervoets

2.93

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chill… read more

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"Yena's insecurities were soap bubbles that I had to keep popping, like in that game you play on your phone, but new ones kept appearing and I didn't want to lose, I didn't want to lose her,..."

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

"They want me to give them something new, things they'd never dare look at, things that are far beyond their imagination, which is why Gregory asks, "But whats the worst thing you ever saw?" rather th…"

-Hanna Bervoets, We Had to Remove This Post

Cover of Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

7. Comfort Me with Apples

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more

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"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples

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8. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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9. 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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10. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

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"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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11. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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Cover of An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg by Alain-Paul Mallard

12. An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg

By: Alain-Paul Mallard

3.78

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty mel… read more

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Cover of The Impersonal Adventure by Marcel Béalu

13. The Impersonal Adventure

By: Marcel Béalu

3.56

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and profession on a wh… read more

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Cover of Black–White–Red by Mynona

14. Black–White–Red

By: Mynona

3.33

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Black–White–Red, first published in German in 1916, collects six bizarre tales by the “laughing phi… read more

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15. Potsdamer Platz; or, The Nights of the New Messiah Ecstatic Visions

By: Curt Corrinth

2.71

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A frenzied German Expressionist tale of orgy as salvation in Weimar Berlin Originally published … read more

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20 Best fiction books like Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

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Come Closer

Sara Gran

3.65

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Gus Moreno

3.74

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Mona Awad

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