11 best-selling novels books like Gehen by Thomas Bernhard

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Gehen

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.94

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Auf regelmäßigen Spaziergängen berichtet Oehler, der früher mit Karrer ging, einem Dritten, warum K…

"We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

"There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

"The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

If you liked the novels plot in Gehen by Thomas Bernhard , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Tu, sanguinosa infanzia by Michele Mari

1. Tu, sanguinosa infanzia

By: Michele Mari

3.99

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

«Se diventare grandi può rivelarsi un'illusione o uno strazio, l'infanzia - perduta o ritrovata che… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
Cover of The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke, None

2. The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

By: Peter Handke , None

3.18

Format: 133 pages, Paperback

The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty … read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • fiction
  • novels
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3. Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.22

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"Everyone prioritizes. Everyone wants new jackets and new shoes and new cars and new houses and new caravans and new mountain cabins and new boats. But I don't. I buy books and records because they sa…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"All the drinking reinforced my unease, and since nothing of what I did gave me anything back, I became more and more worn down, it was as though I was being drained, I became emptier and emptier, and…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"Why didn't they drink? Why didn't everyone drink? Alcohol makes everything big, it is a wind blowing through your consciousness, it is crashing waves and swaying forests, and the light it transmits g…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

"[I]n music there is no meaning, there is no explanation, there are no people, only voices, each with its own special distinctive quality, as though this is its essential quality, its essence, unadult…"

-Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

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4. God and the State

By: Paul Avrich , Mikhail Bakunin

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Among the 19th-century founders of modern philosophical anarchism, none is more important than Mich… read more

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  • philosophy
Cover of Life A User's Manual by Georges Perec, David Bellos

5. 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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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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6. The Unnamable

By: Samuel Beckett

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Unnamable consists entirely of a disjointed monologue from the perspective of an unnamed (presu… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
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7. A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

By: Peter Handke , Jeffrey Eugenides , Ralph Manheim

3.56

Format: None pages,

Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the … read more

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  • german literature
  • classics
  • literature
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8. Happy Days

By: Samuel Beckett

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 'Happy Days, ' Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the t… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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9. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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  • literature
  • novella
  • novels
  • fiction

10. Lanzarote

By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse,… read more

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11. Molloy

By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles

4.04

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."

-Samuel Beckett, Molloy

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12. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • roman
  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • fiction
  • novels
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

13. Die Judenbuche

By: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Der 1842 erschienenen Novelle Die Judenbuche von Annette von Droste-Hulshoff liegt eine wahre Begeb… read more

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14. 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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15. Zone

By: Mathias Énard , Charlotte Mandell

3.50

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Serv… read more

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16. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
Cover of Gehen by Thomas Bernhard

17. Gehen

By: Thomas Bernhard

3.94

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Auf regelmäßigen Spaziergängen berichtet Oehler, der früher mit Karrer ging, einem Dritten, warum K… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Bernhard's Gehen book and Thomas Bernhard's Gehen

  • german literature
  • roman
  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • germany
  • philosophy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • novels
"We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

"There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

"The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse."

-Thomas Bernhard, Gehen

Cover of I Is Another: Septology III-V by Jon Fosse

18. I Is Another: Septology III-V

By: Jon Fosse

4.44

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

Similar categories in Jon Fosse's I Is Another: Septology III-V book and Thomas Bernhard's Gehen

  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"...I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it’s often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right..."

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...one of the most important things when it comes to painting is being able to stop at the right time, to know when a picture is saying what it can say, if you keep going too long then more often tha…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

"...everyone has a deep longing inside them, we always always long for something and we believe that what we long for is this or that, this person or that person, this thing or that thing, but actuall…"

-Jon Fosse, I Is Another: Septology III-V

Cover of A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai

19. A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

By: László Krasznahorkai

3.89

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old mona… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
"...végső soron az egyszerű bizalmat abban, hogy van hagyomány, hogy ez a hagyomány a megfigyelésre, az ismétlésre és a természet belső rendjének és a dolgok természetének a tiszteletére épül, s hogy …"

-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

"...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, a…"

-László Krasznahorkai, A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East

Cover of Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras

20. Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us

By: Joseph Andras

4.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai

21. Herscht 07769

By: László Krasznahorkai

4.20

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Krasznahorkai új műve, egy több száz oldalas elbeszélés 2021 februárjában jelenik meg a Magvető kia… read more

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  • german literature
  • roman
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels

14 Top fiction books like Gehen by Thomas Bernhard

Transform Your Habits

Tu, sanguinosa infanzia

Michele Mari

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

Peter Handke , None

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Min kamp 4 (Min kamp, #4)

Karl Ove Knausgård

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Life A User's Manual

Georges Perec , David Bellos

3.81

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15 Best fiction books like A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai

Transform Your Habits

Vertigo

Michael Hulse , W.G. Sebald

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

William H. Gass

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Nostalgia

Mircea Cărtărescu , Julian Semilian

3.69

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