Conversations, Volume 1
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentin…
Want to Read $ 18.99"When you read The Arabian Nights you accept Islam. You accept the fables woven by generations as if they were by one single author or, better still, as if they had no author. And in fact they have one and none. Something so worked on, so polished by generations is no longer associated with and individual. In Kafka's case, it's possible that his fables are now part of human memory. What happened to Quixote could happen to to them. Let's say that all the copies of Quixote, in Spanish and in translation, were lost. The figure of Don Quixote would remain in human memory. I think that the idea of a frightening trial that goes on forever, which is at the core of The Castle and The Trial (both books that Kafka, of course, never wanted to publish because he knew they were unfinished), is now grown infinite, is now part of human memory and can now be rewritten under different titles and feature different circumstances. Kafka's work now forms a part of human memory."-Jorge Luis Borges, Conversations, Volume 1
"When you read The Arabian Nights you accept Islam. You accept the fables woven by generations as if they were by one single author or, better still, as if they had no author. And in fact they have one and none. Something so worked on, so polished by generations is no longer associated with and individual. In Kafka's case, it's possible that his fables are now part of human memory. What happened to Quixote could happen to to them. Let's say that all the copies of Quixote, in Spanish and in translation, were lost. The figure of Don Quixote would remain in human memory. I think that the idea of a frightening trial that goes on forever, which is at the core of The Castle and The Trial (both books that Kafka, of course, never wanted to publish because he knew they were unfinished), is now grown infinite, is now part of human memory and can now be rewritten under different titles and feature different circumstances. Kafka's work now forms a part of human memory."-Jorge Luis Borges, Conversations, Volume 1
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1. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.79
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more
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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
2. The Castle
By: Franz Kafka , Mark Harman , Regaip Minareci , None
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published unt… read more
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3. A River Dies of Thirst: journals
By: Mahmoud Darwish , Catherine Cobham
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
"There are two maps of Palestine that the politicians will never manage to forfeit: the one kept in… read more
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4. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
5. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
By: Harold Bloom
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canonis more than a required reading list-it is a vision… read more
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6. Gulliver’s Travels
By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.
3.58
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more
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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels
7. The Emperor's Tomb
By: Joseph Roth , John Hoare
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March, it is both a powerful … read more
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8. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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9. The Invention of Morel
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms
4.00
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more
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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
"It is frightening to accept so much good fortune!"-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel
10. Antarctica
By: Claire Keegan
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more
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"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"-Claire Keegan, Antarctica
11. 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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"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
12. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
By: Tim Parks , Roberto Calasso
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of… read more
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13. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Gary Saul Morson , David A. Patterson , David Patterson
4.43
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (?????? ??????? ? ?????? ????????????) is an early book-length e… read more
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14. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
15. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
16. Her Side of the Story
By: Alba de Céspedes
4.07
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes, a richly told novel she called “the story … read more
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17. Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
By: John Kaag
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A revelatory Alpine journey in the spirit of the great Romantic thinker Friedrich NietzscheHiking w… read more
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"As it turns out, to ‘become who you are’ is not about finding a ‘who’ you have always been looking for. It is not about separating ‘you’ off from everything else. And it is not about existing as you …"-John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
18. Apropos of Nothing
By: Woody Allen
4.02
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The Long-Awaited, Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time—Now a New … read more
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"I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust."-Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing
19. Conversations, Volume 1
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Buddhism, love, Henry James, and the tango are just a few of the topics Jorge Luis Borges, Argentin… read more
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"When you read The Arabian Nights you accept Islam. You accept the fables woven by generations as if they were by one single author or, better still, as if they had no author. And in fact they have on…"-Jorge Luis Borges, Conversations, Volume 1
20. Un editor para Saer
By: Alberto Díaz
4.33
Format: 148 pages, None
Este libro cuenta desde la primera persona del editor cómo se relacionó con uno de los autores más … read more
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