Transparent Things
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"Transparent Thingsrevolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Swi…
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1. Les Choses
By: Georges Perec
3.80
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
L.F: " Les choses " ? C'est un titre qui intrigue, qui alimente les malentendus. Plutôt qu'un livre… read more
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"Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus."-Georges Perec, Les Choses
"Leur vie était comme une trop longue habitude, comme un ennui presque serein : une vie sans rien."-Georges Perec, Les Choses
"Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias."-Georges Perec, Les Choses
"A trente ans, l'on se doit d'être arrivé, ou bien l'on n'est rien. Et nul n'est arrivé s'il n'a trouvé sa place, s'il n'a creusé son trou, s'il n'a ses clés, son bureau, sa petite plaque."-Georges Perec, Les Choses
2. Zero K
By: Don DeLillo
3.20
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great Am… read more
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"The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it."-Don DeLillo, Zero K
"He told me that I hadn't done anything yet. Hadn't lived yet. All you do is pass the time, he said."-Don DeLillo, Zero K
"This is how I thought of it. An intuitive link, a reciprocal, one number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together, day or night, their product is one."-Don DeLillo, Zero K
"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of s…"-Don DeLillo, Zero K
3. Mercier and Camier
By: Samuel Beckett
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett’s dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilar… read more
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- literature
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"I don't think I recognize you, sir, said Camier. I am Watt, said Watt. As you say, I'm unrecognizable. Watt? said Camier. The name means nothing to me. I am not widely know, said Watt, true, but I sh…"-Samuel Beckett, Mercier and Camier
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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- 20th century
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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. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
By: César Aira , Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.88
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German ar… read more
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- novels
- fiction
"Were the “pampas,"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"...the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning."-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"A drove of mules the size of ants appeared in silhouette on a ridgetop path, moving at a star's pace. The mules were driven by human intelligence and commercial interests, expertise in breeding and b…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
"It was hard to believe that this was a route used virtually throughout the year by travelers, mule drivers and merchants. Anyone in their right mind would have regarded it as a means of suicide. Near…"-César Aira, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
6. 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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- literature
- classics
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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. Transparent Things
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"Transparent Thingsrevolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Swi… read more
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- russia
- classics
- russian literature
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
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9. Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more
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10. Salt Water
By: Charles Simmons
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned....So begins this luminous story of a yo… read more
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11. Duino Elegies
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more
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12. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- literature
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
13. La pietra lunare: Scene della vita di provincia
By: Tommaso Landolfi
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
La pietra lunaresi apre su una <>grottesca e quasi allucinata, di quelle in cui l'autore delle Due … read more
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15. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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16. The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #2)
By: John Fante
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My fi… read more
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17. The Spanish Tragedy
By: Thomas Kyd , None
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more
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18. Humboldt's Gift
By: Saul Bellow
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic … read more
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19. A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
By: Milan Kundera
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
“We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the p… read more
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- 20th century
20. Nothing But the Night
By: John Williams
3.22
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' ca… read more
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21. Les Paradis artificiels
By: Charles Baudelaire
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Unknown Binding
« Parmi les drogues les plus propres à créer ce que je nomme l’Idéal artificiel, […] les deux plus … read more
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"Tout homme qui n'accepte pas les conditions de la vie, vend son âme."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Paradis artificiels
"Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house?"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Paradis artificiels
