Watermark
By: Joseph Brodsky , None
4.08
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, …
Want to Read $ 6.99"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
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1. Venezia è un pesce. Una guida
By: Tiziano Scarpa
3.83
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Non è vero che tutto è già stato scritto. Prendete Venezia: che cos'altro dire di originale su una … read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- travel
"Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor."-Tiziano Scarpa, Venezia è un pesce. Una guida
2. Lettere a un giovane poeta/Lettere a una giovane signora/Su Dio
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Leone Traverso
4.01
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Le Lettere a un giovane poeta furono realmente indirizzate da Rilke al giovane scrittore Kappus fra… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- nonfiction
- essays
"Questo più umano amore somiglierà a quello che noi con lotta faticosa prepariamo, all’amore che in questo consiste: che due solitudini si custodiscano, delimitino e salutino a vicenda."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Lettere a un giovane poeta/Lettere a una giovane signora/Su Dio
"Se la vostra vita quotidiana vi sembra povera, non l’accusate; accusate voi stesso, che non siete assai poeta da evocarne la ricchezza; ché per un creatore non esiste povertà né luoghi poveri e indif…"-Rainer Maria Rilke, Lettere a un giovane poeta/Lettere a una giovane signora/Su Dio
"Un giorno esisterà la fanciulla e la donna, il cui nome non significherà più soltanto un contrapposto al maschile, ma qualcosa per sé, qualcosa per cui non si penserà a complemento e confine, ma solo…"-Rainer Maria Rilke, Lettere a un giovane poeta/Lettere a una giovane signora/Su Dio
"Anche amare è bene: poiché l’amore è difficile. Volersi bene, da uomo a uomo: è forse questo il nostro compito più arduo, l’estremo, l’ultima prova e verifica, il lavoro che ogni altro lavoro non fa …"-Rainer Maria Rilke, Lettere a un giovane poeta/Lettere a una giovane signora/Su Dio
3. Loving Venice
By: Petr Král
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Petr Král's encounter with the city of Doges is a love-letter to a place that arouses strong and of… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- italy
4. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
By: Jan Potocki , Ian Maclean
4.10
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
¶ Originally published in Polish [as Rękopis Znaleziony w Saragossie, 1847], later translated into … read more
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- classics
"I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator."-Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
"Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails."-Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
"It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always…"-Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
"Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made self-interest the motive of all human action, but in the great host of men she produ…"-Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
5. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- travel
- classics
- nonfiction
- memoir
7. Conversations in Sicily
By: Ernest Hemingway , Elio Vittorini , Alane Salierno Mason
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great nove… read more
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- italy
- classics
8. 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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- classics
"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
9. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- classics
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
10. The Gardener's Year
By: Karel Čapek , Josef Čapek
4.04
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still… read more
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- classics
- nonfiction
- essays
11. Alcestis and Other Plays
By: Euripides , Philip Vellacott
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Includes Alcestis, Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides' tragedies proved highly controver… read more
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- classics
12. Venice
By: Jan Morris
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The classic evocation of Venice, acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written about the city. … read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- travel
13. C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy , Edmund Keeley , Philip Sherrard , George Savidis
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of hi… read more
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- poetry
- classics
"Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Η Ιθάκη σ’ έδωσε τ’ ωραίο ταξείδι. Χωρίς αυτήν δεν θάβγαινες στον δρόμο."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Vuelve a menudo y tómame, en la noche, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan..."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Aunque sea con engaños, que me ilusione ahora: pero que no sienta el vacío de mi vida. (Septiembre de 1903)"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
14. A School for Fools
By: Sasha Sokolov , Carl R. Proffer
3.49
Format: 465 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as a masterpiece, Sokolov's first novel is set at a school for "disturbed" childr… read more
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15. Pao Pao
By: Pier Vittorio Tondelli
3.66
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
La sigla PAO, che sta per Picchetto Armato Ordinario, evoca l’esperienza della caserma, punto di pa… read more
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- italy
16. The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
By: Rachel Cusk
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to It… read more
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17. The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
By: Elias Canetti , J.A. Underwood
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneat… read more
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18. Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
By: Cesare Pavese , Cesare Segre , Marziano Guglielminetti , None
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Iniziato il 6 ottobre 1935 durante i giorni del confino politico, Il mestiere di vivereaccompagna C… read more
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19. Mary
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Glenny
3.71
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin ro… read more
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- russia
- classics
- russian literature
"La gente que se afeita se rejuvenece un día todas las mañanas."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"El delicioso hecho íntimo ocurrido anoche había sido la causa de que todo el caleidoscopio de su vida variara, y había evocado el pasado de un modo avasallador."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."-Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
20. Watermark
By: Joseph Brodsky , None
4.08
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In this brief, intense, gem-like book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, … read more
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- italy
- poetry
- nobel prize
- classics
- russia
- memoir
- russian literature
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
"Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy."-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
"I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is... In any case, I always thought that if the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the water, the water was bound to refle…"-Joseph Brodsky, Watermark
21. Die Panne
By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
As told by Atkinson (NY Times): "Three retired men of law on a remote mountain in Switzerland amuse… read more
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22. The Poetics of Space
By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more
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23. Vi avverto che vivo per l'ultima volta. Noi e Anna Achmatova
By: Paolo Nori
3.80
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
«E noi, che cosa stiamo diventando? E io, cosa sono diventato?» si chiede Paolo Nori. E la risposta… read more
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- poetry
- russia
- nonfiction
24. Romanzo senza umani
By: Paolo Di Paolo
3.09
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
Un uomo solo cammina lungo le rive di un grande lago tedesco. È partito all’improvviso, chiudendo i… read more
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25. Chi dice e chi tace
By: Chiara Valerio
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more
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- italy
26. I giorni di Vetro
By: Nicoletta Verna
4.57
Format: 448 pages, ebook
È ingenua, ma il suo sguardo sbilenco vede ciò che gli altri ignorano. È vulnerabile, ma resiste al… read more
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27. Dalla stessa parte mi troverai
By: Valentina Mira
4.01
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Questa storia comincia una sera d’inverno, il 7 gennaio 1978. Davanti a una sede del Movimento soci… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Venetië: de stad, de leeuw en het water
By: Cees Nooteboom
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Je leert een stad pas echt kennen als je in de straten en stegen ervan verdwaalt. Venetië, met al h… read more
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- italy
- nonfiction
- travel
29. Drifts
By: Kate Zambreno
3.67
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A restlessly brilliant novel of creative crisis and transformation Beguiling and compulsively re… read more
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30. The White Dress
By: Nathalie Léger
3.82
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
'She wanted to bring peace to countries that had known war. She said she thought she could do that … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"...everything is always muddled, everything is always unclear, inextricable, and perhaps never more so than at the moment when you think you're behaving with the most algorithmic lucidity..."-Nathalie Léger, The White Dress
31. Venezia è un pesce. Una guida nuova
By: Tiziano Scarpa
4.02
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Venezia è uno strano modo di stare al mondo, ancora prima di essere una città anomala ed enigmatica… read more
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- travel
