Babylon
By: René Crevel
4.00
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Babylon is a landmark of Surrealist literature, an enduring achievement of one of its leading figur…
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1. Our Lady of the Flowers
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more
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"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. The Ice Palace
By: Tarjei Vesaas , Elizabeth Rokkan
3.86
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Commonly seen as the legendary Norwegian writer's masterpiece, this story tells the tale of Siss an… read more
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"The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back."-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Lovnad i djupaste snøen frå Siss til Unn: Det lovar eg deg at eg ikkje vil tenke på noko anna enn deg. Tenke på alt eg veit om deg. Tenke på deg heime og på skolen, og på skolevegen. Tenke på deg hei…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
"Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don't know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from m…"-Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
4. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
5. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
6. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
7. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
8. Omensetter's Luck
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more
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9. Locus Solus
By: Raymond Roussel
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Based, like the earlier Impressions of Africa, on uniquely eccentric principles of composition, thi… read more
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10. The Malady of Death
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more
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11. Laughable Loves
By: Milan Kundera , حسین کاظمییزدی , Suzanne Rappaport
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Laughable Lovesis a collection of stories that first appeared in print in Prague before 1968, but w… read more
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12. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages,
Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obsc… read more
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13. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
14. Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
By: Daniil Kharms , Matvei Yankelevich
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Daniil Kharms has long been heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, but… read more
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15. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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16. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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17. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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18. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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19. 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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20. The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History
By: Mircea Eliade , Willard R. Trask
4.00
Format: None pages,
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the Nor… read more
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21. The General in His Labyrinth
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more
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22. The Rules of Attraction
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set at a small affluent liberal-arts college in New England eighties, The Rules of Attractionis a s… read more
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23. Less Than Zero
By: Bret Easton Ellis
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more
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24. Autoportrait
By: Édouard Levé , Lorin Stein
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Leve hides nothing from his readers, setting … read more
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25. The Encyclopedia of the Dead
By: Michael Henry Heim , Danilo Kiš
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Paperback
In these stories Kis depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes - the multitude of details… read more
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26. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
By: Lafcadio Hearn
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
"Kwaidan" translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting sto… read more
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27. The Passion According to G.H.
By: Clarice Lispector , None
4.13
Format: 173 pages, Paperback
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in … read more
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"I don't want beauty, I want identity."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
28. The Drowned World
By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more
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29. The Hearing Trumpet
By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more
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30. The Hole
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.49
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more
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"I moved out here with my husband."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
31. Babylon
By: René Crevel
4.00
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Babylon is a landmark of Surrealist literature, an enduring achievement of one of its leading figur… read more
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