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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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"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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"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 Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
By: Peter Handke , None
3.18
Format: 133 pages, Paperback
The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty … read more
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- classics
- literature
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- 20th century
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4. Auto-da-Fé
By: Elias Canetti , Τζένη Μαστοράκη , C.V. Wedgwood
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
"Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Vienna bet… read more
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"Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"The business friend did not recognize the sewerman, which was not surprising as the man's face was no more than a shining turd."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
"She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her."-Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé
5. 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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- art
- classics
- 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
6. Hymns to the Night
By: Novalis , Dick Higgins
4.05
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
This bilingual, revised, third edition of Higgins' best-selling translation presents the complete A… read more
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"Ama geceye sadık kalır Gizli yüreğim Ve gecenin kızı olan Yaratıcı sevgiye. Gösterebilir misin bana Sonrasız sadık bir yürek? Senin güneşinin Sevgi dolu gözleri var mı Beni tanıyabilen?"-Novalis, Hymns to the Night
7. The Thirtieth Year: Stories
By: Ingeborg Bachmann , Michael Bullock
4.02
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
This is collection of the stories written by a distinguished Austrian author who died in 1973. Read… read more
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"No new world without a new language."-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories
"As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now that he was living in a prison, that he had to make the best of it in there and would soon ra…"-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories
"Kendi yasama ihanet etmeden bu tasaları nasıl haklı görebilirdim? Girdiğiniz çıkmazların önemine nasıl inanabilirdim? Size gerçekten inandıkça, o güçsüz ve kendini beğenmiş sözlerinizden, o miskin da…"-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories
"Etimin konuk ettiği ruhum, ikiyüzlü ev sahibinden daha da büyük bir düzenbazdır. Her şeyden önce onunla karşılaşmaktan çekinmeyelim. Çünkü düşündüğüm hiçbir şeyin benimle ilişkisi yok. Her düşünce, y…"-Ingeborg Bachmann, The Thirtieth Year: Stories
8. Dancing in Odessa
By: Ilya Kaminsky
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Winner of the 2002 Dorset Prize, and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Ilya Kaminsky … read more
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9. 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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- fiction
10. 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
11. 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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12. Il ponte: un crollo
By: Vitaliano Trevisan
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Un uomo ha lasciato per sempre la sua famiglia e l'Italia. A distanza di anni, la notizia della mor… read more
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13. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
By: Peter Handke , Jeffrey Eugenides , Ralph Manheim
3.56
Format: None pages,
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the … read more
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- classics
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14. Aliss at the Fire
By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more
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- literature
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15. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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16. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
17. Lanzarote
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse,… read more
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18. Dissipatio H.G.
By: Guido Morselli
3.80
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysop… read more
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"Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
"Morire biologicamente, è il perfezionarsi di uno stato in cui ci troviamo già ora."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
"Ho paura dell'uomo, come dei topi e delle zanzare, per il danno e il fastidio di cui è produttore inesausto."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
"Quello che abbiamo posseduto, ce lo possiamo mettere dietro le spalle, confinarlo nel passato, nel già-fatto."-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.
19. 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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"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
20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. Murphy
By: Samuel Beckett
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more
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24. 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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25. Zone
By: Mathias Énard , Charlotte Mandell
3.50
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Serv… read more
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26. Malina
By: Philip Boehm , Ingeborg Bachmann , Mark Anderson , Michael Bullock
4.64
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Tells the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memori… read more
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27. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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28. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
29. Der letzte Satz
By: Robert Seethaler
3.46
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
An Deck eines Schiffes auf dem Weg von New York nach Europa sitzt Gustav Mahler. Er ist berühmt, de… read more
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30. La crisis de la narración
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.90
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more
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"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración
31. Kafka: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
By: Nishioka Kyoudai
3.81
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Two cult-favorite Japanese writers present eerie graphic adaptations of 9 classic Kafka short stori… read more
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