Le Mystère des Cathédrales
10 best books like Le Mystère des Cathédrales (Fulcanelli): Foucault's Pendulum, The Tartar Steppe, Il visconte dimezzato, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Embers, The Spinoza Problem, The History of Magic, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, Historia del rey transparente, El día que se perdió la cordura
Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1567923046 |
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 8804370874 |
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Il narratore rievoca la storia dello zio, Medardo di Torralba, che, combattendo in Boemia contro i Turchi, è tagliato a metà da un colpo di cannone. Le due parti del corpo, perfettamente conservate, mostrano diversi caratteri:...
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
| Author | Carlos Castaneda |
| ISBN | 0671227424 |
You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.
There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...
| Author | Sándor Márai |
| ISBN | 0375707425 |
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.
In a secluded woodland castle...
| Author | Irvin D. Yalom |
| ISBN | 0465029639 |
When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe,...
| Author | Éliphas Lévi |
| ISBN | 0877289298 |
A history of magicians written by a Hermetic philosopher, first published in 1860. You know the kinds of books discussed in Foucault's Pendulum, where they try to tie together all secrets and mysteries, but just make a profound jumble? This is one of those kinds of books. He's interested in the kaballah,...
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
| Author | Frances A. Yates |
| ISBN | 0415267692 |
In the years leading up to the Thirty years war (1618-1648) as Catholic and Protestant princes vied for control of the Holy Roman Empire in the heart of Europe the age was extremely polarizing and ideological. In this period famous for heresy and witchcraft trials a strange intellectual movement developed....
Historia del rey transparente
| Author | Rosa Montero |
| ISBN | 8466318771 |
Historia del rey transparente es una novela poderosa, con la fuerza desbordante de los libros llamados a convertirse en clásicos.
En un turbulento siglo XII, Leola, campesina adolescente, desnuda a un guerrero muerto en un campo de batalla y se viste con sus ropas de hierro, para protegerse bajo...
El día que se perdió la cordura
Opiniones de lectores:
“Una historia de amor rompedora e inquebrantable, de un autor hasta ahora desconocido, y que sin duda se va a convertir en el fenómeno literario del año”
“Un libro aupado por el boca a boca, de esos que te dejan toda una noche sin dormir”
“Maravilloso....
