10 must-read classics books like Vitgenštajnov nećak by Thomas Bernhard

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Vitgenštajnov nećak

By: Thomas Bernhard

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

"Vitgenstajnov necak" je delimicno autobiografski roman, s podnaslovom "Jedno prijateljstvo", i to …

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Cover of Vertigo by Michael Hulse, W.G. Sebald

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

Cover of The Emigrants by Michael Hulse, W.G. Sebald

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

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3. 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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"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

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4. The Left-Handed Woman (English and German Edition)

By: Peter Handke

3.21

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Peter Handke tells the story of a woman determined to break with her husband and her past and to fo… read more

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Cover of Austerlitz by Anthea Bell, W.G. Sebald

5. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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Cover of Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Foster Wallace, Steven Moore, David Markson

6. Wittgenstein's Mistress

By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more

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Cover of The Melancholy of Resistance by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai

7. 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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8. Wittgenstein’s Nephew

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

4.03

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

It is 1967. In separate wings of a Viennese hospital, two men lie bedridden. The narrator, Thomas B… read more

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"Bu zaman zarfında Paul'un düşüncelerinden yoksun kalmıştım, başka başka yüzlerce, ortalaması son derece düşük çaplı kafa içinde boğulmama ramak kalmıştı, çünkü kendimizi aldatmayalım, çoğunlukla elim…"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

"Benimle Nathal'de avlu duvarı dibinde oturmuş, batmakta olan güneşin altında, kaç kere Paris'e, kaç kere Londra'ya, kaç kere Roma'ya gittiğinin, kaç bin şişe şampanya ictiğinin ve acaba kaç kitap oku…"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

"O sıralar herkes tarafından da terk edilmiştim, ben onların hepsini terk etmiştim çünkü, işin aslı bu, hiç kimseyi istemiyordum, tıpkı artık hiçbir şeyi istemeyişim ama her şeye de kendi elimle son v…"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

"قلت لنفسى وأنا أجلس فوق دكة فى منتزه المدينة، إن هذه ربما تكون آخر مرة أرى فيها صديقى. لم أكن اعتقد أن جسدا بهذا الوهن، خبت فيه جذوة الحياة وانطفأت شعلة الإرادة، سيتحمل أكثر من بضعة أيام. زُلزل كيانى …"

-Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

Cover of Satantango by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai

9. 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

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10. 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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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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Cover of A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ralph Manheim

12. 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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13. Agapē Agape

By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more

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14. 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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15. War & War

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of… read more

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16. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (The Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Samuel Beckett

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Mol… read more

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17. 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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18. I Am the Brother of XX

By: Fleur Jaeggy , Gini Alhadeff

4.25

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound … read more

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19. 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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20. Septology

By: Jon Fosse

4.52

Format: 825 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more

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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"

-Jon Fosse, Septology

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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

14 must-read fiction books like Vitgenštajnov nećak by Thomas Bernhard

Transform Your Habits

Vertigo

Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Emigrants

Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Left-Handed Woman (English and German Edition)

Peter Handke

3.21

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13 Best fiction books like The Melancholy of Resistance by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass

4.17

Transform Your Habits

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

William H. Gass

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Melancholy of Resistance

George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

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