Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi…
Want to Read $ 8.52"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
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1. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus
4.27
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more
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- poetry
- novels
- classics
- fiction
"Under the seams runs the pain."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"There is no person without a world."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Don't want to be free want to be with you."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
2. 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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- poetry
- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"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
3. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
4. White Nights
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.06
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersbur… read more
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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- fiction
- novels
"E ti chiedi: “Dove sono i tuoi sogni?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"Kalbim içimde konuşurken ben susmayı beceremem."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
5. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- philosophy
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
6. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- philosophy
7. Thomas the Obscure
By: Maurice Blanchot , Robert Lamberton
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Before Sartre, before Beckett, before Robbe-Grillet, Maurice Blanchot created the new novel, the ul… read more
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- classics
- literature
- philosophy
- fiction
- novels
8. Bluets
By: Maggie Nelson
4.22
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more
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- philosophy
9. Tu não te moves de ti
By: Hilda Hilst
4.27
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Tu nao te moves de ti e uma das obras mais densas de Hilda Hilst. Com seu modo peculiar de narrativ… read more
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10. As Meninas
By: Lygia Fagundes Telles
3.87
Format: 268 pages,
Nao foram muitos os escritores que, no auge da ditadura militar no Brasil, abordaram em seus textos… read more
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11. Vidas secas
By: Graciliano Ramos
4.22
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Vidas secas, lançado originalmente em 1938, é o romance em que mestre Graciliano — tão meticuloso q… read more
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- classics
- literature
- brazil
- 20th century
- fiction
- novels
"Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito."-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas
"Hell, Hell—" He couldn't believe that a word with so musical a ring could be the name of something bad."-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas
"Natural, xingar a mãe de uma pessoa não vale nada, porque todo mundo vê logo que a gente não tem intenção de maltratar ninguém. Um ditério sem importância."-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas
"Os meninos eram uns brutos, como o pai. Quando crescessem, guardariam as reses de um patrão invisível, seriam pisados, maltratados, machucados por um soldado amarelo"-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas
12. Giovanni’s Room
By: James Baldwin
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Set in the contemporary Paris of American expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds h… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- novels
"Nobody can stay in the Garden of Eden."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"...for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was."-James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
13. The Lost Daughter
By: Elena Ferrante
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more
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14. Água Viva
By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler
4.29
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more
Want to Read $ 8.52Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Água Viva book and Clarice Lispector's Água Viva
- poetry
- literary fiction
- classics
- literature
- brazil
- latin american
- philosophy
- fiction
- 20th century
- novels
"I always give names to things"-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva
15. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
16. Tudo é Rio
By: Carla Madeira
4.26
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Por este livro passa um rio. Em sua correnteza, a obsessão de três personagens que não sabem desist… read more
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- literary fiction
- brazil
- fiction
- novels
"Deus não é um lugar de certeza, é só um pouco de esperança."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Um dia feliz tem mais poder que a tristeza de uma vida inteira"-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Quem vê de fora faz arranjos melhores, mas é dentro, bem no lugar que a gente não vê, que o não dar conta ocupa tudo."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Não sabia se livrar daquele sentir, e do sentir para o consentir é só um tombinho de nada, basta um descuido para quem está andando tropeçar."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
17. Pequena Coreografia do Adeus
By: Aline Bei
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Julia é filha de pais separados: sua mãe não suporta a ideia de ter sido abandonada pelo marido, en… read more
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- literary fiction
- brazil
- fiction
- novels
"fui a criança mais velha do mundo e estava me tornando a jovem mais antiga da rua"-Aline Bei, Pequena Coreografia do Adeus
18. A filha primitiva
By: Vanessa Passos
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
Vencedor do Prêmio Kindle de Literatura (2021) e Prêmio Jacarandá (2022) Uma história de amor e … read more
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- fiction
19. A Natureza da Mordida
By: Carla Madeira
4.40
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
A Natureza da Mordida, segundo livro de Carla Madeira, autora de “Tudo é rio”, é um livro sobre a a… read more
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- literary fiction
- brazil
- fiction
20. A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
By: Ana Suy
4.10
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Amor, solidão e psicanálise para os dias atuais. Podemos ler que o amor contém a solidão em seu… read more
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- brazil
"Ao encontrar um amor, a gente não encontra a parte que nos faltava até então. A gente encontra a metade que fará falta a partir dali."-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
"Com frequência, pensamos que, no amor, encontraríamos a parte que supostamente nos falta, a parte que nos livraria da nossa própria falta, a parte que nos preencheria. No entanto, no amor, o que se e…"-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
"Vivemos um tempo em que queremos tudo para antes de ontem, em que vivemos o período de espera como crise de ansiedade. [...] sem fazer nascer intervalos, tudo que encontramos corre o risco de ser pur…"-Ana Suy, A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão
21. Dias de se fazer silêncio
By: Camila Maccari
4.36
Format: None pages, None
"Camila eis uma autora excepcional, que detém por completo o domínio da história e sabe como contá… read more
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