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…
Want to Read $ 9.99"...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 thought: every time he embraced a little rosy-cheeked child he longed to remove its cheeks with a razor."-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
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1. A Season in Hell
By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
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"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
2. 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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"The lecher swears, the come flows and supper sounds."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
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"I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
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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- gothic
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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. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
5. Against Nature
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more
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6. Là-Bas
By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more
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8. 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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9. The Temptation of St. Antony
By: Gustave Flaubert , Lafcadio Hearn , Kitty Mrosovsky
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book that deeply influenced the young Freud & was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptatio… read more
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10. Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
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11. La era del vacío
By: Gilles Lipovetsky , Joan Vinyoli , Michele Pendanx , Joan Vinyoli Sastre
4.03
Format: 246 pages,
Se ha afirmado que estamos en la era posmoderna. Estallido de lo social, disolucion de lo politico:… read more
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12. The Loser
By: Thomas Bernhard , Jack Dawson
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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13. 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
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"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
14. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
By: Arthur Rimbaud , Louise Varèse
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Although he stopped writing at the age of 19, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) possessed the most revolutio… read more
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15. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
16. Mi madre
By: Georges Bataille , None
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
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17. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
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18. The Wild Boys
By: William S. Burroughs
3.99
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19. The Theater and Its Double
By: Antonin Artaud , None
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
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20. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
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21. Ubu Roi
By: Barbara Wright , Alfred Jarry , Franciszka Themerson
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main chara… read more
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