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…
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1. Proust and Signs: The Complete Text (Theory Out of Bounds)
By: Gilles Deleuze
4.22
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
Proust och tecknen är ironiskt nog ett filosofiskt argument för konstens överlägsenhet. Sällan har … read more
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2. Les Chants de Maldoror
By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham
4.15
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more
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"...the police, that shield of civilization..."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
3. The Pleasure of the Text
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Miller
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and … read more
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4. Paris Spleen
By: Charles Baudelaire , Louise Varèse
3.89
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of t… read more
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5. The Malady of Death
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, … read more
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6. 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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7. Correction
By: Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness b… read more
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8. 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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9. 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
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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- classics
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11. 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
12. 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
13. W, or the Memory of Childhood
By: Georges Perec , David Bellos
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader in… read more
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14. 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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15. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more
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16. The Theater and Its Double
By: Antonin Artaud , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
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17. Nightwood
By: T.S. Eliot , Jeanette Winterson , Djuna Barnes
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books t… read more
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18. Death in Spring
By: Mercè Rodoreda , Martha Tennent
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Springis one of Merce … read more
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19. 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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"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
20. 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
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
