Moravagine
By: Blaise Cendrars , Alan Brown , Paul La Farge , Paul LaFarge
3.82
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with N…
Want to Read $ 7.99"The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
"The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
"A man returns to die, between four walls, with the dawn, a collar of iron around the neck, to the withers, the tongue hanging ... as on the Goya print."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
"A man returns to die, between four walls, with the dawn, a collar of iron around the neck, to the withers, the tongue hanging ... as on the Goya print."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
If you liked the 20th century plot in Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars, Alan Brown, Paul La Farge, Paul LaFarge , here is a list of 7 books like this:
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. Moravagine
By: Blaise Cendrars , Alan Brown , Paul La Farge , Paul LaFarge
3.82
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
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- 20th century
- novels
"The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
"A man returns to die, between four walls, with the dawn, a collar of iron around the neck, to the withers, the tongue hanging ... as on the Goya print."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
"One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
"Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress..."-Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
3. 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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- classics
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- 20th century
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- novels
"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
4. In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
4.34
Format: 4211 pages, Paperback
On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more
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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
5. Là-Bas
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more
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- horror
6. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
7. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it … read more
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- literature
- classics
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8. 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
9. Life A User's Manual
By: Georges Perec , David Bellos
3.81
Format: 320 pages,
Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and… read more
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11. Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires … read more
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- literature
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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. Berlin Alexanderplatz
By: Alfred Döblin
4.10
Format: None pages,
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more
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14. Phenomenology of Spirit
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , A.V. Miller , John Niemeyer Findlay
3.96
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spir… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
"The vanity of the contents"-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
"por lo poco que el espíritu necesita para contentarse, puede medirse la extensión de lo que ha perdido."-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit
15. Justine
By: Marquis de Sade
3.76
Format: 205 pages,
Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, conocido por su titulo de Marques de Sade (Paris, 2 de junio de… read more
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16. 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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- 20th century
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"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
17. Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the … read more
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18. Hard Rain Falling
By: None , Don Carpenter
4.14
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more
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"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"-None, Hard Rain Falling
19. Hell
By: Henri Barbusse , Robert Baldick
4.28
Format: None pages, Paperback
A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Alternately v… read more
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20. The Penitent
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Said by Singer to be his favourite among all his books, The Penitentis the story of Joseph Shapiro'… read more
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21. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more
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