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…
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1. Slow Learner
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.52
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achiev… read more
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"But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever."-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it."-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of t…"-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
"What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that c…"-Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
2. Omensetter's Luck
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more
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3. The Tunnel
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages,
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 199… read more
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4. On Being Blue
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a philosophical approach to color, Gass explores man's perception of the color blue as well as i… read more
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5. Dog Soldiers
By: Robert Stone
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more
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6. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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7. 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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8. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
By: William H. Gass
4.07
Format: 242 pages,
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9. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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10. 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
11. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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12. The Sot-Weed Factor
By: John Barth
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factorhas acquired… read more
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13. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
By: David Lipsky
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
In David Lipsky's view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace's pieces… read more
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14. 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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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. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None
3.83
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more
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"Every medicine is vain."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"A curse burns bright on crime."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"There is no avoidance in delay."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
"In war, the first casualty is truth."-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
17. Against the Day
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more
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18. The Plains
By: Gerald Murnane
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lect… read more
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19. Europe Central
By: William T. Vollmann
4.22
Format: None pages,
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritari… read more
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20. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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21. 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
