The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio…
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1. Vertigo
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.00
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amaz… read more
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"Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain."-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
"É um vazio todo peculiar que surge quando, numa cidade estranha, a pessoa disca números de telefone em vão. Quando ninguém atende, é uma decepção de alcance transcendente, como se esses números aleat…"-Michael Hulse, Vertigo
2. The Emigrants
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
4.17
Format: 237 pages, Paperback
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth… read more
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"It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know."-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
"The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance, and the Alpine panorama that occupied h…"-Michael Hulse, The Emigrants
3. Un homme qui dort
By: Georges Perec
4.05
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
" Tu as vingt-cinq ans et vingt-neuf dents, trois chemises et huit chaussettes, quelques livres que… read more
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"Ne kimseyi görme, ne konuşma, düşünme, dışarı çıkma, yerinden kımıldama isteği duyuyorsun."-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort
"Önceden düşünülmüş bir hareket değil bu, bir hareket de değil zaten, bir hareket yokluğu, yapmadığın bir hareket,yapmaktan kaçındığın hareketler."-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort
"Ils t'identifient, ils te reconnaissent. Ils ne savent pas que ces simples saluts, ces seuls sourire, ces signes de tête indifférents sont tous ce qui chaque jour te sauve."-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort
"Time, which sees to everything, has provided the solution, despite yourself. Time, that knows the answer, has continued to flow. It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that e…"-Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort
4. 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
5. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
6. Watt
By: Samuel Beckett
4.50
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Fiction. WATT was the beginning of Samuel Becket's post-war literary career, the fruition of the ye… read more
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- 20th century
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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. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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- novels
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9. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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- literature
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10. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovatio… read more
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- german literature
- music
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- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
11. 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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- literature
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- fiction
12. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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- literature
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
13. Death Sentence
By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot
4.48
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This long awaited reprint of a book about which John Hollander wrote: 'A masterful version of one o… read more
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- literature
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14. The Confusions of Young Törless
By: J.M. Coetzee , Shaun Whiteside , Robert Musil
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational un… read more
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15. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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16. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
17. Dissipatio H.G.
By: Guido Morselli
3.80
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysop… read more
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"Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
"Morire biologicamente, è il perfezionarsi di uno stato in cui ci troviamo già ora."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
"Ho paura dell'uomo, come dei topi e delle zanzare, per il danno e il fastidio di cui è produttore inesausto."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
"Quello che abbiamo posseduto, ce lo possiamo mettere dietro le spalle, confinarlo nel passato, nel già-fatto."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
18. The Madness of the Day
By: Lydia Davis , Maurice Blanchot
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism) of The Madness of the Daythat it is "a sto… read more
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19. La sindrome di Ræbenson
By: Giuseppe Quaranta
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Antonio Deltito è uno psichiatra, «un uomo alto e sgraziato» che ricorda, al narratore di questa st… read more
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20. Locus desperatus
By: Michele Mari
3.29
Format: 136 pages, ebook
A tutti, prima o poi, è toccato separarsi da qualcosa che reputavamo soltanto ma senza ciò che ci … read more
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21. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
