A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented …
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. Vita Nova
By: Louise Glück
3.95
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In Vita Nova , Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück man… read more
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"be a brave dog - this is all material"-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"His gaze touched me before his hands touched me."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"It was never focus that was missing, it was meaning."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
"I had two desires: desire to be safe and desire to feel."-Louise Glück, Vita Nova
3. The Tears of Eros
By: Georges Bataille , Peter Connor
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tears of Erosis the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between viole… read more
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4. The Sorrows of Young Werther
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Burton Pike
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in… read more
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5. Erotism: Death and Sensuality
By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more
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6. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard , Wayne Koestenbaum
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A Lover's Discourse, at its 1978 publication, was revolutionary: Roland Barthes made unprecedented … read more
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7. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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8. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
By: Anne Carson
4.23
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more
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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
9. Poesía completa
By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu
2.74
Format: None pages,
Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more
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10. Thomas the Obscure
By: Maurice Blanchot , Robert Lamberton
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ul… read more
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11. The Well-Beloved
By: Thomas Hardy
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set on the Isle of Slingers, this novel follows the exploits of Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor who fa… read more
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12. Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
By: René Girard , Yvonne Freccero
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
This study extends beyond the scope of literature into the psychology of much of our contemporary s… read more
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13. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation
By: Eva Illouz
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Hardcover
Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving … read more
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14. Selected Poems
By: Mary Ruefle
4.40
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
"Mary Ruefle is one of the brilliant American poets of our time. Her work combines the spiritual de… read more
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15. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
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- classics
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
16. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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17. Un amour de Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1.2)
By: Marcel Proust
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Un amour de Swannest un fragment de A la recherche du temps perdu, la deuxieme partie de Du cote de… read more
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18. 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
19. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase
By: Anna Pacheco
4.14
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more
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20. Superemocional: Una defensa del amor
By: Juanpe Sánchez López
4.39
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Juanpe Sánchez López se pregunta y nos pregunta en este ensayo sobre el amor, sus distintas y contr… read more
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21. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
