Gargoyles
By: Thomas Bernhard , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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1. The Skin
By: Curzio Malaparte , David Moore
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Una terribile peste dilaga a Napoli dal giorno in cui, nell’ottobre del 1943, gli eserciti alleati … read more
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"It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud."-Curzio Malaparte, The Skin
"La pelle " risposi a voce bassa " la nostra pelle, questa maledetta pelle. Voi non immaginate neppure di che cosa sia capace un uomo, di quali eroismi e di quali infamie sia capace, per salvar la pel…"-Curzio Malaparte, The Skin
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. Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
By: Giorgio Manganelli , Henry Martin , Henry Martin
4.12
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Book-of-the-Year 2005 Silver Medallion for Translation Note: Three st… read more
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4. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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5. 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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6. Gargoyles
By: Thomas Bernhard , Richard Winston , Clara Winston
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired write… read more
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7. 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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"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
8. Il ponte: un crollo
By: Vitaliano Trevisan
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Un uomo ha lasciato per sempre la sua famiglia e l'Italia. A distanza di anni, la notizia della mor… read more
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9. 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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10. Works
By: Vitaliano Trevisan
3.95
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Con una scrittura originale come un classico pezzo di jazz, che ne ha fatto uno degli autori italia… read more
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11. 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.
12. 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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13. I quindicimila passi: un resoconto
By: Vitaliano Trevisan
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Thomas conta i passi. Da casa alla questura, millecinquantatre passi. Da casa al tabaccaio, settece… read more
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14. The Weight of Things
By: None , Marianne Fritz
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only transl… read more
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"..the present is always the best time to spread your arms wide and embrace the whole world, all at once, as best you can."-None, The Weight of Things
"...the ideal legal form being, it goes without saying, the one in which the least taxes are paid and the company is least vulnerable to any official prying."-None, The Weight of Things
15. Guerre
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
3.79
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more
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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre
16. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
By: Michael Bible
3.60
Format: 135 pages, ebook
Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more
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"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra
17. La ricreazione è finita
By: Dario Ferrari
4.24
Format: 480 pages, ebook
Marcello è un trentenne senza un vero lavoro, resiste ai tentativi della fidanzata di rinsaldare il… read more
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18. Nessuno torna indietro
By: Alba de Céspedes
3.86
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
224.copie, un film, innumerevoli critiche, trenta edizioni straniere, continuamente ristampate. "A … read more
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"A casa, ormai, non si può più tornare. I genitori non dovrebbero mandarci in città. Dopo, anche se torniamo, siamo cattive figlie, cattive mogli. Chi può dimenticare di essere stata padrona di se ste…"-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro
"Eppure era così; nulla può distruggere, annientare un passato: tu accuratamente lo nascondi, lo occulti, nessuno ha visto, nessuno ha saputo, fuorché te stessa, e tu non parlerai mai. E invece seguit…"-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro
19. I Is Another: Septology III-V
By: Jon Fosse
4.44
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more
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"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V
20. Koniec
By: Marta Hermanowicz
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Jeden z najbardziej wyczekiwanych debiutów roku. Metafizyczna, bluźniercza powieść o tragedii wo… read more
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21. Una minima infelicità
By: Carmen Verde
3.42
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
"Una minima infelicità" è un romanzo vertiginoso. Una nave in bottiglia che non si può smettere di … read more
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