17 Best fiction books like Mi madre by Georges Bataille

Cover of Mi madre by Georges Bataille, None

Mi madre

By: Georges Bataille , None

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Nos encontramos ante otra obra fundamental de la literatura erotica occidental, y no ha de extranar…

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1. A Season in Hell

By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

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2. Crash

By: J.G. Ballard

3.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more

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  • erotica
  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

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3. The 120 Days of Sodom

By: Marquis de Sade

3.08

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostl… read more

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  • erotica
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"The lecher swears, the come flows and supper sounds."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

"Adélaïde was the sketch rather than the model of beauty..."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

"Nothing is as encouraging as a first crime that goes unpunished."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

"I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear."

-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

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4. 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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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"...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

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5. Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist

By: Antonin Artaud , Alexis Lykiard

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

Translated into English for the first time, this novelized biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emper… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

6. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Malady of Death by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray

7. 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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  • erotica
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
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8. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

Cover of The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau, Rosamond Lehmann

9. The Holy Terrors

By: Jean Cocteau , Rosamond Lehmann

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Les Enfants Terribles holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction. Written in a … read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
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10. The Nun

By: Denis Diderot , Russell Goulbourne

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction

11. Van Gogh: Il suicidato della società

By: Antonin Artaud , Ena Marchi , Paul Thévenin , Camille Dumoulié , None

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

<>, la societa suicido van Gogh. Non fu dunque il pittore a soccombere a un suo delirio, ma un deli… read more

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  • france
Cover of Mi madre by Georges Bataille, None

12. Mi madre

By: Georges Bataille , None

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Nos encontramos ante otra obra fundamental de la literatura erotica occidental, y no ha de extranar… read more

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  • erotica
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • novels
Cover of Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, J. Aurelio Herrera

13. Fuenteovejuna

By: Lope de Vega , J. Aurelio Herrera

3.71

Format: 192 pages,

Lope con esta obra aparece como el escritor que descubre al pueblo como personaje colectivo que act… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Dream Story by Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzler, J.M.Q. Davies

14. Dream Story

By: Frederic Raphael , Arthur Schnitzler , J.M.Q. Davies

3.76

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"El imperativo urgente del momento era huir, al menos por un tiempo, al sueño y al olvido."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"متأكدة بقدر حدسي أن حقيقة ليلة، بل حتى حقيقة حياة إنسان بأكملها، لا تعني في الوقت ذاته حقيقته الداخلية."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"بدا له أنه لو وقف وحده سافِر الوجه بين كل هؤلاء المقنَّعين، فسيكون الأمر أسوأ آلاف المرات من أن يقف فجأة عاريًا بين اللابسين"

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

"Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth."

-Frederic Raphael, Dream Story

Cover of Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Joachim Neugroschel, Larry Wolff

15. 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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  • erotica
  • fiction
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16. 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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  • fiction

17. Sun and Steel

By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more

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18. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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19. Belle de jour

By: Joseph Kessel , None

3.78

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

The startling and groundbreaking novel that inspired Luis Bunuel's film by the same name is finally… read more

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20. Philosophy in the Boudoir or, The Immoral Mentors

By: Marquis de Sade , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel , Tomer Hanuka

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Philosophy of the Boudoirfollows three aristocrats as they indoctrinate the fifteen-year-old Eugeni… read more

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21. Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Linda Coverdale

3.48

Format: 241 pages, ebook

From the acclaimed Emmanuel Carrere, an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records deva… read more

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22. 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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23. Tersi ve Yüzü

By: Albert Camus , Tahsin Yücel

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Brice Parain, sik sik, yazdiklarimin en iyisini bu kucuk kitabin icerdigini ileri surer. (...) Hay… read more

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24. Platform

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.80

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
"Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Anything can happen in life, especially nothing."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"L'absence d'envie de vivre, hélas, ne suffit pas pour avoir envie de mourir."

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

"Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?"

-Michel Houellebecq, Platform

25. Musica: Un'interpretazione psicoanalitica di un caso di frigidità

By: Yukio Mishima , Emanuele Ciccarella

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Un giorno d'autunno, alla porta del dottor Shiomi Kazunori, uno psicananlista che da cinque anni ha… read more

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26. The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

By: Jean Baudrillard , None

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this, his most important collection of essays since Le systeme des objets, Jean Baudrillard cont… read more

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27. A Dictionary of Symbols

By: None

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Humans, it's said, are symbolizing animals. At every stage of civilization, people have relied on s… read more

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28. Totem and Taboo

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboowas first pub… read more

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29. The Fall

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.01

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more

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30. The Agony of Eros

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.93

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more

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"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"

-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

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31. Casas vacías

By: Brenda Navarro

4.23

Format: 209 pages, ebook

Casas vacías habla del dolor de las mujeres ante la desaparición de un hijo y de su propia vida. Es… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"¿Por qué les llaman desaparecidos y no se atreven a llamarlos muertos? Porque los muertos somos los que los buscamos, ellos siempre, siempre seguirán vivos."

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Me faltan kilos, me sobran ropa, personas, horas. ¿En qué momento me darán ganas de ir y tirarme por la ventana? Quizá deba admitir que la tristeza me acomoda porque soy egoísta."

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Las clases sociales no se rozan. Y en todo caso, si nosotros teníamos acceso a ese tipo de relaciones era por la nacionalidad de Fran y Nagore, no por el dinero. O eres rico o eres blanco, no hay mat…"

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

"Que se acabara todo de una vez y para siempre. Que hubiera un terremoto, una bomba, una guerra, una pistola, unos insurrectos rencorosos, una araña venenosa, un edificio de veinte pisos, una valentía…"

-Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

9 must-read novels books like Mi madre by Georges Bataille

Transform Your Habits

Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The 120 Days of Sodom

Marquis de Sade

3.08

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Confessions of a Mask

Yukio Mishima

2.57

Transform Your Habits

We

Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

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10 Best classics books like Crash by J.G. Ballard

Transform Your Habits

Crash

J.G. Ballard

3.59

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Naked Lunch

William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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Blue of Noon

Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings

3.86

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