Dream Notes
By: Theodor W. Adorno
3.57
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Dreams are as black as death. --Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote the…
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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)
2. Scoop
By: Evelyn Waugh
3.80
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the "Daily Beast", has always prided himself on hi… read more
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"Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'--William Boot"-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
"As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic."-Evelyn Waugh, Scoop
3. La Prisonnière
By: Marcel Proust
4.29
Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine a renoncé à faire une croisière et lorsque, à la fin de l’été, elle rentre de Balbec avec… read more
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4. Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers)
By: Giorgio Agamben , Liz Heron
4.09
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is …"-Giorgio Agamben, Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience (Radical Thinkers)
5. Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
By: Peter Singer
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Peter Singer is often described as the world’s most influential philosopher. He is also one of its … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- psychology
- essays
"If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can solve the problems we face, whether they are what to do about climate ch…"-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
"We spend most of our lives with unfulfilled desires, and the occasional satisfactions that are all most of us can achieve are insufficient to outweigh these prolonged negative states. If we think tha…"-Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
6. Timequake
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a c… read more
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7. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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8. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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9. Woodcutters
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more
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10. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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11. One Way Street And Other Writings
By: Walter Benjamin , None , K. Shorter
4.07
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
This is a representative selection of Walter Benjamin's intellectual and literary writings. Reminis… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
12. Jakob von Gunten
By: Robert Walser , Christopher Middleton
4.30
Format: 503 pages,
The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largel… read more
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13. The End of Eddy
By: Édouard Louis , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more
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14. L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
By: Ágota Kristóf
4.11
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Onze chapitres pour onze moments de sa vie, de la petite enfance en Hongrie à l'apprentissage du fr… read more
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"You become a writer by writing with patience and obstinacy, without ever losing faith in what you write."-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
"في الغالب أكتفي بالكتابة في ذهني . ذلك اسهل . داخل الراس تجري الامور كلها بيسر . لكن ما ان نشرع في الكتابة حتى تتغير الأفكار .تتشوه.تصير خاطئة"-Ágota Kristóf, L'analphabète: récit autobiographique
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16. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
17. O Avesso da Pele
By: Jeferson Tenório
4.55
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Um romance sobre identidade e as complexas relações raciais, sobre violência e negritude, O avesso … read more
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"É inventando que consigo ser honesto."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
"Compreender as ações dos pais leva anos, às vezes a vida inteira."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
"A vida simplesmente acontecia e você simplesmente passava por ela."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
"Lembre-se que é ao lado de outra pessoa que aprendemos a nos conhecer."-Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele
18. Kairos
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
19. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
20. Gruppen
By: Sigge Eklund
3.29
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Hanna kommer till Madrid för att arbeta på Pradomuseet och allt i staden är inbjudande och förföris… read more
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21. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- essays
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
22. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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23. La società senza dolore: Perché abbiamo bandito la sofferenza dalle nostre vite
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 96 pages, ebook
Il mondo contemporaneo è terrorizzato dalla sofferenza. La paura del dolore è così pervasiva e diff… read more
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24. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
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"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
25. Sniglar och snö
By: Agneta Pleijel
3.86
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
Hon blir Sveriges första kvinnliga kulturchef på en dagstidning. På Aftonbladets kulturredaktion i … read more
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26. Die Freiheit, frei zu sein
By: Hannah Arendt
3.76
Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition
»Mein Thema heute, so fürchte ich, ist fast schon beschämend aktuell.« Was ist Freiheit, und was b… read more
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27. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
By: Erik Olin Wright
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and … read more
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28. Händelseboken
By: Andrzej Tichý
4.07
Format: 680 pages, Hardcover
Händelseboken är en svindlande mosaikroman om makt, maktlöshet och fantasins kraft. På en lekplats … read more
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29. Dream Notes
By: Theodor W. Adorno
3.57
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Dreams are as black as death. --Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote the… read more
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30. Clean
By: Alia Trabucco Zerán
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sh… read more
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"Yo jamás me comí las uñas. Tampoco mi mamá. Para eso, me imagino, hay que tener las manos desocupadas."-Alia Trabucco Zerán, Clean
