The Man Without Qualities
By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike
4.19
Format: 1774 pages, Paperback
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
If you liked the philosophy plot in The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins, Burton Pike , here is a list of 5 books like this:
1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
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- 20th century
- fiction
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Gargantua and Pantagruel
By: François Rabelais , M.A. Screech
3.66
Format: 1041 pages, Paperback
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their … read more
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- classics
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- philosophy
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- novels
"gülmektir çünkü insanı insan eden"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"El hombre no val más de lo que él mismo estima."-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Aux lecteurs: Amis lecteurs, qui ce livre lisez, Despouillez vous de toute affection; Et, le lisant, ne vous scandalisez: Il ne contient mal ne infection; Vray est qu'icy peu de perfection Vous appre…"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
"Panurge stood beside the galley with an oar in his hand, not to help the herdsmen but to prevent from from somehow clambering aboard and thus escaping their death, and all the while preached to them …"-François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
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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- literary fiction
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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. 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
- classics
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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
5. In Search of Lost Time
By: Marcel Proust , Richard Howard , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
4.34
Format: 4211 pages, Paperback
On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, t… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- philosophy
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- 20th century
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"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter."-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the Ne…"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
"Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is concerned are no less exorbitant than those which the heart requires in order to change. For one thing, time is the very thing that we are …"-Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
6. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods , T.J. Reed
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a class… read more
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- german literature
- classics
- literature
- germany
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- historical fiction
- novels
7. The Good Soldier Švejk
By: Jaroslav Hašek , Josef Lada , Cecil Parrott
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
In The Good Soldier Svejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek combined dazzling w… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Melancholy of Resistance
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
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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- german literature
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"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. The Death of Virgil
By: Hermann Broch , Jean Starr Untermeyer
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Cae… read more
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- german literature
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11. The Tin Drum
By: Günter Grass
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wield… read more
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12. Solenoid
By: Mircea Cărtărescu
3.59
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more
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13. 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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14. Doctor Faustus
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed … read more
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15. Berlin Alexanderplatz
By: Alfred Döblin
4.10
Format: None pages,
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more
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16. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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- classics
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
17. The Man Without Qualities
By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike
4.19
Format: 1774 pages, Paperback
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more
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- german literature
- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- germany
- philosophy
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"Leute, die jederzeit zu sterben meinen, leben lang!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Städte lassen sich an ihrem Gang erkennen wie Menschen."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"[A]lles ist moralisch, aber die Moral selbst ist nicht moralisch!"-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"Moral war für ihn [..] das unendliche Ganze der Möglichkeiten zu leben."-Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
18. War & War
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
War & War, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. The Magic Mountain
By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods
4.13
Format: 706 pages, Paperback
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more
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- german literature
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
