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…
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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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- german literature
- literary fiction
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- 20th century
- novels
"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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- literary fiction
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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. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"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
4. 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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- literature
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- 20th century
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5. 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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- german literature
- music
- literary fiction
- literature
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
6. 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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- literary fiction
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- 20th century
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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
7. The Unnamable
By: Samuel Beckett
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Unnamable consists entirely of a disjointed monologue from the perspective of an unnamed (presu… read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
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8. Agapē Agape
By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
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9. 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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10. L'indifferente
By: Marcel Proust , Giorgio Agamben , Mariolina Bongiovanni Bertini , Philip Kolb
3.41
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
Ο "Αδιάφορος" και άλλα κείμενα των νεανικών του χρόνων Από το 1893 µέχρι το 1896 ο νεαρός Προυστ… read more
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"مادلن گلها را خیلی دوست داشت و با حسابگری زنانه میدانست چهقدر زیبا هستند و چهقدر زیبا میکنند. زیبایی، شادابی و حتی اندوه گلها را هم دوست داشت و آنها را زیباییهای جانبی گلها میدانست. وقتی دی…"-Marcel Proust, L'indifferente
"کودکی که از بدو تولد غیرارادی نفس کشیده است، نمیداند هوایی که سینهاش را آرام پر میکند تا چه حد برای زنده ماندنش ضروری و حیاتی است. حالا اگر در آتش تب دچار تشنج و خفگی گردد چه میکند؟ در تلاشی مستأ…"-Marcel Proust, L'indifferente
11. Malone Dies
By: Samuel Beckett
4.37
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett's English translation in 1956, Malon… read more
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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. Molloy
By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles
4.04
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- 20th century
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- novels
"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
14. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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15. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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- literature
- novels
- 20th century
- fiction
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
16. War & War
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of… read more
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17. 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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18. The Rings of Saturn
By: Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Rings of Saturn- with its curious archive of photographs - records a walking tour of the east c… read more
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19. My Friends
By: Emmanuel Bove , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Emanuel Bove's first novel, My Friends, relates the story of Victor Baton, a wounded war veteran tr… read more
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20. 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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- literary fiction
- literature
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- 20th century
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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
21. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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- literary fiction
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
