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<<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>     sort list by title | author Hebdomeros With Monsieur Dudron's Adventure and Other Metaphysical Writings Giorgio De Chirico The artist Giorgio de Chirico’s novel Hebdomeros is astonishing dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book "the finest work of Surrealist fiction," noting that de Chirico... Dust on Her Tongue Rodrigo Rey Rosa Set in Guatemala, these spare and beautiful tales are linked by themes of magic, violence, and the fragility of existence. Paul Bowle's translation perfectly captures Rey Rosa's stories of the haunted lives of ordinary people in present-day Central... The Age of Reason A Novel Jean-Paul Sartre The first novel of Sartre's monumental Roads to Freedom series, The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer --... Veils Short Stories Nahid Rachlin The ten stories in Veils take place in present-day Iran or in the United States where Iranian immigrants face alien ways. Teheran's ancient Ghanat Abad Avenue, with its labyrinth of narrow streets and alleys, loosely links the stories into a single... The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis José Saramago The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni... Too Loud a Solitude Bohumil Hrabal The main character in this story works and lives as a kind of subterranean paper crusher in Prague. Hrabal leads us along the bizarre and lasting corridors of his mind and world. Truly memorable. —Recommended by Maia, City Lights Books The Rebel An Essay on Man in Revolt Albert Camus By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle... Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." The Myth of Sisyphus And Other Essays Albert Camus "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest– whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether.. The Fall Albert Camus Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern... The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe If you've seen the 1964 Teshigahara film you've already experienced Abe's brilliance (he wrote the screenplay as well). If you haven't, read this first. The haunting story of a vacationing entomologist trapped in a sand-pit with an enigmatic woman... Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for... The Passport (Masks) Herta Müller From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature! "A swift, stinging narrative, fable-like in its stoic concision and painterly detail."—The Philadelphia Inquirer The Passport is a beautiful, haunting novel whose subject is a German village in... The Stranger Albert Camus Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. <<< 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>>