5 Top literature books like Proust as Musician by Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Cover of Proust as Musician by Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Proust as Musician

By: Jean-Jacques Nattiez

4.17

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Throughout A la recherche du temps perdu, and particularly Swann in Love, Proust displays a surpris…

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Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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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"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

Cover of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, None, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, None

3. 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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"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 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

4. Killing Commendatore

By: Haruki Murakami

3.91

Format: 681 pages, Hardcover

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 In Killing… read more

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"The morning is not my time. Darkness is my friend. A vacuum is my breath. I must be saying goodbye soon."

-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

"It seems to me that reality itself has a screw loose somewhere. That's why I try to keep at least myself in line as much as possible."

-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

"But the forecasters and media types were clever - they never used vague words like "maybe." No, they stuck with convenient terms for which no one could be held accountable, like "probability of preci…"

-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

"There is a point is everybody's life where they need a major transformation. And when that time comes you have to grab it by the tail. Grab it hard, and never let go. There are some people who are ab…"

-Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

Cover of Proust as Musician by Jean-Jacques Nattiez

5. Proust as Musician

By: Jean-Jacques Nattiez

4.17

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Throughout A la recherche du temps perdu, and particularly Swann in Love, Proust displays a surpris… read more

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18 Top fiction books like Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

4.14

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An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.77

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Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher

4.16

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Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

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