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Eros the Bittersweet
Av Anne Carson
Häftad, 2022
179 kr
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Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2026Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration …
Suicide
Av Edouard Levé
Häftad, 2025
177 kr
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Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals.Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friend—perhaps real, perhaps fictional—more than twenty years …
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Häftad, 2023
205 kr
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Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth.Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing …
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
Häftad, 2024
300 kr
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This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the …
Sot-Weed Factor
Av John Barth
Häftad, 2023
297 kr
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This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world since Candide.""A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire …
Trilogy
Av Jon Fosse
Häftad, 2022
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
205 kr
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023Trilogy is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the …
La Batarde
Häftad, 2023
231 kr
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An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women.When …
At Swim-Two-Birds
Häftad, 2022
276 kr
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Along with one or two books by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds is the most famous (and infamous) of Irish novels published in the twentieth century.A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish …
Palinuro of Mexico
Häftad, 2026
378 kr
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Winner of Mexico's Premio Novela Mexico, Venezuela's Romulo Gallegos Prize for best Spanish-language novel, and France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for best foreign book, Palinuro of Mexico is a masterpiece which ranks with the finest achievements of Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, and …
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love
Or, Letters Not About Love
Häftad, 2024
190 kr
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While living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. He fell into the habit of sending Elsa several letters a day, a situation she accepted under one condition: he was forbidden to write about love. Zoo, or Letters Not about Love is an …
Europeana
Häftad, 2024
191 kr
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Tracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism throughScientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author PatrikOurednik explores the horror and absurdity of the twentieth century in an explosivedeconstruction of historical …
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Av Ishmael Reed
Häftad, 2022
266 kr
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“Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head …
Langrishe, Go Down
Häftad, 2023
259 kr
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An eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes—a once wealthy, highly respected Irish family—through the lives of their four daughters, especially the youngest, Imogen, whose love affair with a self-centered German scholar resonates throughout …
Ryder
Av Djuna Barnes
Häftad, 2024
205 kr
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From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of eccentricity and anarchy; through sparkling …
Billy & Girl
Av Deborah Levy
Häftad, 2024
187 kr
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In this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewhere in England. Girl spends much of her time trying to find their mother, going to strangers' doors …
Family of Pascual Duarte
Häftad, 2023
205 kr
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Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie. The …
Angel in the Forest
A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to …
Ladies Almanack
Av Djuna Barnes
Häftad, 2026
205 kr
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A "striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody" by the acclaimed author of Nightwood. (—Library Journal)Nearly 100 years after its original 1928 publication sent shockwaves through the literary scene, Ladies Almanack reigns as a brilliant modernist composition and one of the most audacious lesbian …
Impossible Object
Häftad, 1985
156 kr
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"The object of life is impossible; one cuts out fabrication and creates reality. A mirror is held to the back of the head and one's hand has to move the opposite way from what was intended." In these closing lines from Impossible Object, one has embodied both Nicholas Mosley's subject of love and …
Planetarium
Häftad, 2022
191 kr
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A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of view, Sarraute focuses below the surface, on …
