The Man Without Qualities: Volume I

The Man Without Qualities: Volume I similar books

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  Berlin Alexanderplatz

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  The Guermantes Way

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  Wittgenstein’s Mistress

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  Sodom and Gomorrah

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  In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

  In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the st…

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  2666, Part 1: The Part About The Critics

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  La Prisonnière

  Albertine a renoncé à faire une croisière et lorsque, à la fin de l’été, elle rentre de Balbec avec le narrateur, elle s’installe chez lui, à Paris: il ne se sent plus amoureux d’elle, elle n’a plus r…

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  Thomas the Obscure

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  The Holy Terrors

  A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood.
  
  At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly e…

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  Journey to the End of the Night

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in r…

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  Woodcutters

  This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at an 'artistic dinner' given by a composer and his society wife—a couple that the writer once admired b…

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  The Carter of "La Providence"

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  Molloy

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  The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

  The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment…

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  The Loser

  Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift …

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  Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)

  Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar transla…

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  Elective Affinities

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  The Magic Mountain

  In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exh…

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  The Book of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935,…

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  The Gods Will Have Blood

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