The Construction of the Tower of Babel
By: Juan Benet
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Juan Benet’s penultimate book, The Construction of the Tower of Babel brings together two essays th…
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1. The Physiology of the Employee (Wakefield Handbooks)
By: Honoré de Balzac , André Naffis-Sahely , Louis Trimolet
3.64
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
If Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity--the "mo… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
2. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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- literature
"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
3. The Carter of 'La Providence' (Maigret, #2)
By: Georges Simenon , David Coward
3.65
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
What was the woman doing here? Why was her body found in a stable, wearing pearl earrings, a stylis… read more
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4. The Dead
By: James Joyce
3.99
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more
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- literature
"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."-James Joyce, The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"-James Joyce, The Dead
"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pareció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"-James Joyce, The Dead
5. The Magnetic Fields
By: Philippe Soupault , André Breton
3.88
Format: 115 pages, Paperback
Les Champs magnétiques (1920; The Magnetic Fields) is known as the first major surrealist work. read more
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- literature
- art
"They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
"How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise."-Philippe Soupault, The Magnetic Fields
6. The Professor and the Siren
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
3.87
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, in additio… read more
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- literature
"…They're dangerous as all gifts from the sea are; the sea offers death as well as immortality."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren
"…And in truth, the sun, the seclusion, the nights passed beneath the wheeling stars, the silence, the scant nourishment, the study of remote subjects wove around me a spell that predisposed me to mar…"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Professor and the Siren
7. The Age of Wire and String
By: Ben Marcus
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
In The Age of Wire and String, hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in dec… read more
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- literature
8. Selected Poems of Apollinaire
By: Guillaume Apollinaire , Oliver Bernard
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First… read more
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9. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
By: Bruno Schulz , Celina Wieniewska
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis … read more
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- literature
10. Pierre Reverdy
By: John Ashbery , Lydia Davis , Kenneth Rexroth , Pierre Reverdy , Mary Ann Caws
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens a… read more
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11. Zazie in the Metro
By: Barbara Wright , Raymond Queneau , Gilbert Adair
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with her uncle Gabriel. All sh… read more
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12. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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- literature
"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
13. The Other City
By: Gerald Turner , Michal Ajvaz
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
In this strange and lovely hymn to Prague, Michal Ajvaz repopulates the city of Kafka with ghosts, … read more
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14. Melancholy
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls , None
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to everything but t… read more
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15. Rakkóx the Billionaire & the Great Race
By: W.C. Bamberger , Paul Scheerbart , Félix Vallotton
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Two novellas from the inventor of perpetual motion and godfather of German science fiction. Rakkox … read more
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16. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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17. Serotonin
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.58
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
»Es ist nicht die Zukunft, es ist die Gegenwart, die dich tötet, die wiederkommt, um an dir zu nage… read more
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- literature
"[...] chiaramente sto semplificando ma se non si semplifica non si conclude niente."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"nic nas nie koi równie łatwo jak świadomość innych niż nasze dramatów, które nam zostały oszczędzone"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime"-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
"... it isn't the future but past that kills you, that comes back to torment and undermine you, and effectively ends up killing you."-Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin
18. Heart Berries
By: Terese Marie Mailhot
3.84
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more
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- nonfiction
"Pain expanded my heart."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"You are such a home to me."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
19. Hench (Hench, #1)
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
4.02
Format: 403 pages, Hardcover
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a… read more
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"I wondered what it must be like to be so mediocre and so confident that the same time."-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"But even if the label on your own feelings doesn't matter, wouldn't you want to know how you felt about you? He pulled me off an operating table and rebuilt my brain. He killed people to get to me. W…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
"No one wants to be a real hero; it’s too hard. My husband didn’t give a damn whether the work I was doing was noble as long as it appeared to be. When I killed someone then - something I did a lot mo…"-Natalie Zina Walschots, Hench (Hench, #1)
20. Fulgentius
By: César Aira
3.88
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Una vuelta de tuerca a la novela de romanos protagonizada por un voluble general de la legión que c… read more
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- spanish literature
21. Machines in the Head: The Selected Short Writing of Anna Kavan
By: Anna Kavan
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This collection of Anna Kavan’s short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1… read more
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- literature
22. 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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23. Lucky Breaks
By: Yevgenia Belorusets
3.45
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Powerful, off-beat stories about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing war in U… read more
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24. Vercoquin y el plancton
By: Boris Vian
3.61
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Alocada y fresca, turgente y frutal, Vercoquin y el plancton, primera novela de Boris Vian, inédita… read more
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25. The Die Is Cast
By: Robert Desnos
3.97
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance act… read more
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- literature
26. Spadework for a Palace
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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27. The Criminal Child and Other Essays
By: Jean Genet
3.73
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in … read more
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- essays
"…one must love the Circus and despise the world."-Jean Genet, The Criminal Child and Other Essays
"And messieurs, mesdames, mesdemoiselles, you must not presume that it is enough for you to condescend to the criminal child, lavishing your attention, your concern, your indulgence upon him in the be…"-Jean Genet, The Criminal Child and Other Essays
28. 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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29. Principles of Cerebral Mechanics (Imagining Science, 7)
By: Charles Cros
3.36
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros―poet, friend to Rim… read more
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30. The Construction of the Tower of Babel
By: Juan Benet
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Paperback
Juan Benet’s penultimate book, The Construction of the Tower of Babel brings together two essays th… read more
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