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…
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1. Literature and Evil
By: Georges Bataille , Alastair Hamilton
3.97
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literar… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
- france
- french literature
"La poesía, en un primer impulso, destruye los objetos que aprehende, los restituye, mediante esa destrucción, a la inasible fluidez de la existencia del poeta, y a ese precio espera encontrar la iden…"-Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil
2. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- philosophy
- france
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
3. 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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- literature
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"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
4. The Book of Disquiet
By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith
4.41
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
- fiction
"My past is everything I failed to be."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
5. 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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- literature
- france
- french literature
- 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
6. 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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- literature
- philosophy
- france
- french literature
- fiction
7. 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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- literature
- occult
- philosophy
- france
- french literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
By: Julius Evola , Joscelyn Godwin , Constance Fontana
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Hardcover
Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absol… read more
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- philosophy
9. Theory of Religion
By: Georges Bataille
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Theory of Religion brings to philosophy what Bataille's earlier book, The Accursed Share, brought t… read more
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- philosophy
- france
10. Negotiations, 1972-1990
By: Gilles Deleuze , Martin Joughin
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
Negotiations traces the intellectual journey of a man widely acclaimed as one of the most important… read more
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- philosophy
- france
11. The Bacchae
By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Cleverness is not wisdom."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"He who believes needs no explanation."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."-Euripides, The Bacchae
"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"-Euripides, The Bacchae
12. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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- literature
- fiction
13. Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more
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- literature
- philosophy
- france
- french literature
- fiction
14. Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life
By: Gilles Deleuze , John Rajchman , Anne Boyman
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, w… read more
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- france
15. On the Heights of Despair
By: Emil M. Cioran , Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Born of a terrible insomnia--"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"--this b… read more
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- philosophy
16. The Trouble with Being Born
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
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- philosophy
- france
17. The Temptation to Exist
By: Richard Howard , Susan Sontag , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a liter… read more
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- philosophy
- france
18. 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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- literature
- philosophy
- france
- french literature
- fiction
"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
19. La Morte Amoureuse
By: Théophile Gautier
3.76
Format: None pages,
He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the … read more
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- fiction
20. Amerika
By: Franz Kafka
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who,… read more
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- fiction
21. 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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- fiction
22. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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23. What Is Philosophy?
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Called by many France's leading intellectual, Gilles Deleuze is one of the most important philosoph… read more
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24. 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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25. Justine
By: Marquis de Sade
3.76
Format: 205 pages,
Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, conocido por su titulo de Marques de Sade (Paris, 2 de junio de… read more
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26. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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27. History and Utopia
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this book, Cioran writes of politics, of history, and of the utopian dream. "A small masterwork … read more
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28. The Torture Garden
By: Octave Mirbeau
3.00
Format: None pages,
Lidandets lustgardav Octave Mirbeau ar en av de stora dekadenta klassikerna. Romanen vackte enormt … read more
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29. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he … read more
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30. A Short History of Decay
By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a lit… read more
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31. La seducción
By: Sara Torres
3.68
Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition
Tras el éxito de Lo que hay, vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia, el deseo y la fantasía la au… read more
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"Esa es la propuesta del 'amor' humano hacia los animales: adáptate a mi ley o muere."-Sara Torres, La seducción
"No elegimos las primeras imágenes que capturan nuestro deseo. Nos son impuestas: por azar, por poder o por norma."-Sara Torres, La seducción
"Imagino ese concretísimo gesti para poder correrme. ¿Qué dice de mi? ¿Qué dicen de nosotras las imágenes que nos desatan?"-Sara Torres, La seducción
"Las observaba y sus gestos, imaginados en mi propia carne, me dolían, pero a ellas no. Parecía natural su ser suaves, imberbes, con aroma a frambuesa y a plátano."-Sara Torres, La seducción
