The Solar Anus
By: Georges Bataille
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
The Solar Anus is a short Surrealist text written by the French writer and philosopher Georges Bata…
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1. A Season in Hell
By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None
4.07
Format: 95 pages, Hardcover
Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more
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- poetry
- classics
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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. Crash
By: J.G. Ballard
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."-J.G. Ballard, Crash
"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"-J.G. Ballard, Crash
3. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
By: Giorgio Agamben , Daniel Heller-Roazen
4.06
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy’s most important and original philosophers, has been base… read more
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- philosophy
"If the sovereign is truly the one to whom the juridical order grants the power of proclaiming a state of exception and, therefore, of suspending the order's own validity, then "the sovereign stands o…"-Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
4. 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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- classics
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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
5. 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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- philosophy
- classics
- france
- fiction
"The lecher swears, the come flows and supper sounds."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
"Adélaïde was the sketch rather than the model of beauty..."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
"Nothing is as encouraging as a first crime that goes unpunished."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
"I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear."-Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
6. 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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- poetry
- classics
- france
- fiction
"...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
7. 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
8. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism
By: Nick Land
3.43
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on… read more
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- philosophy
9. 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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- philosophy
- classics
- fiction
"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
10. 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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- classics
- france
- fiction
"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
11. Venus in Furs
By: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Joachim Neugroschel , Larry Wolff
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires … read more
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- fiction
12. The Solar Anus
By: Georges Bataille
3.62
Format: 120 pages,
The Solar Anus is a short Surrealist text written by the French writer and philosopher Georges Bata… read more
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- philosophy
- france
- sexuality
- essays
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13. Sun and Steel
By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more
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14. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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15. Duino Elegies
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , David Young
4.14
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this … read more
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16. House of Incest
By: Anaïs Nin , None
4.01
Format: None pages, Paperback
"The genesis of House of Incestwas in the dream. The keeping of dreams was an important part of tha… read more
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17. Manifestoes of Surrealism
By: André Breton , None , Richard Seaver , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Manifestoes of Surrealismis a book by Andre Breton, describing the aims, meaning, and political pos… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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20. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more
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- essays
"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
21. Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
By: Sophus Helle
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated fro… read more
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