The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his…
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1. Our Lady of the Flowers
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman
4.01
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictio… read more
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"En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"Dzięki temu,że powiedział mi,iż nie żyję,pogodziłem się z faktem,że ludzie wyrzucili mnie ze swoich myśli"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Our Lady of the Flowers
2. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
3. 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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"...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
4. The Sluts
By: Dennis Cooper
3.79
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more
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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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6. Inner Experience
By: Georges Bataille , Bruce Boone , Leslie Anne Boldt-Irons
1.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
His is a journey marked by the questioning of experience itself, until what is reached is sovereign… read more
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7. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
8. 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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9. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
By: Mark Fisher
3.72
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more
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10. The Atrocity Exhibition
By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado
4.11
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more
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11. The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
By: William S. Burroughs
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventur… read more
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12. The Wild Boys
By: William S. Burroughs
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
The Wild Boysis a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to … read more
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13. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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14. Cities of the Red Night
By: William S. Burroughs
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern i… read more
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15. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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16. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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17. 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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18. The Passion of New Eve
By: Angela Carter
4.54
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become… read more
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19. The Craziest Book Ever Written
By: Mr. W
4.16
Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition
It looked like Johnny would be yet another writer who committed suicide. He put the gun in his mout… read more
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"Hope is the most important ingredient of hell."-Mr. W, The Craziest Book Ever Written
"To all the writers who torment their characters the way God torments the poor and sick."-Mr. W, The Craziest Book Ever Written
"Yet lucky people don’t care about the past. Lucky people don’t seek reasons and causes. They live in the present moment and go with the flow."-Mr. W, The Craziest Book Ever Written
20. Historia de la eternidad
By: Jorge Luis Borges
4.02
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
El trabajo que da título a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negación, y examina… read more
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21. This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
By: Jon Savage
4.32
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-de… read more
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