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…
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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. 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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"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. 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
4. Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
By: Luigi Serafini
4.50
Format: 365 pages, Hardcover
Questo codice miniato fantastico e misterioso, "l'enciclopedia di un visionario" (nella definizione… read more
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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. 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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7. Big Sur
By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more
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8. Hollywood Babylon
By: Kenneth Anger
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hollywood Babylonwas originally published in Paris, and quickly became an underground legend. Not a… read more
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9. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (VALIS Trilogy, #3)
By: Philip K. Dick
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valisand Th… read more
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10. Panorama of Hell
By: Hideshi Hino
3.77
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
PANORAMA OF HELL is a shocking, tortuous journey into the depths of one man's postnuclear Hell. Thr… read more
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11. Selections from the Prison Notebooks
By: Antonio Gramsci , None , Quintin Hoare , Geoffrey Nowell Smith
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An extensive anthology, including his most important writings while in prison on philosophy, histor… read more
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12. 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
13. Life A User's Manual
By: Georges Perec , David Bellos
3.81
Format: 320 pages,
Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and… read more
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14. Illuminations
By: Arthur Rimbaud
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The prose poems of the great French Symbolist, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), have acquired enormous p… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Last Exit to Brooklyn
By: Gilbert Sorrentino , Hubert Selby Jr.
3.43
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Last Exit to Brooklynis a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens a… read more
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19. Motorman
By: David Ohle
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Fiction. "It is curious that a reprint could be heroic. It is more curious that a book this good co… read more
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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
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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21. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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22. Desolation Angels
By: Jack Kerouac , Joyce Johnson
3.93
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and griz… read more
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"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet"-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
"Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, "Perché?" E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente."-Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
23. Pornography: Men Possessing Women
By: Andrea Dworkin
3.00
Format: 108 pages, Paperback
This volume presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society. read more
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24. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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25. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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26. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007
By: Ray Brassier , Robin Mackay , Nick Land
4.02
Format: 982 pages, Paperback
Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massive… read more
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27. Black Spring
By: Henry Miller
3.71
Format: 436 pages, Paperback
Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry … read more
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28. Murphy
By: Samuel Beckett
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more
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29. The Accursed Share 1: Consumption
By: Georges Bataille , Robert Hurley
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utilit… read more
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30. 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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