Aberration of Starlight
10 best books like Aberration of Starlight (Gilbert Sorrentino): Elective Affinities, The Upanishads, A Feast of Snakes, Kentucky Straight: Stories, First Love, Der arme Spielmann, The Dhammapada, Mysteries, Asya, A Naked Singularity
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ISBN | 0192837761 |
Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140441638 |
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma...
| Author | Harry Crews |
| ISBN | 0684842483 |
From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. "No number of adjectives in the thesaurus...
Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and literally unmapped. These stories are set in a nameless community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation....
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 0974607894 |
This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion.
This beautifully packaged series of classic novellas includes...
| Author | Franz Grillparzer |
| ISBN | 1406819433 |
Eine schlichte, stille Geschichte. Grillparzer thematisiert in seiner Rahmennovelle den tragischen Kontrast zwischen universellem Kunstanspruch und tatsächlichem künstlerischem Vermögen. Der prinzipientreue Spielmann Jakob ist von seiner Berufung zum Geiger überzeugt, obwohl sein...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0938077872 |
The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...
In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming,...
| Author | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN | 1594919992 |
Tolstoy considered Asya, written in 1858, one of Turgenev's two best stories, along with First Love. Asya is a tragic story of two Russians abroad who are in love but conceal it from each other. Constance Garrett and Isabel Hapgood translated Asya in antiquated style approximately 100 years ago. Despite...
| Author | Sergio de la Pava |
| ISBN | 1436341981 |
Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America’s War on Drugs. So far he’s on the winning side. He’s never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, and pride like his has a long way to fall.
Funny, smart and always surprising, A Naked Singularity speaks a language all...
| Author | Johann Peter Eckermann |
| ISBN | 0306808811 |
It is a delightful book. I cannot help giving this book full five stars (This feels weird, though, to give such books stars).
I like every page of the book. Right at the beginning, Eckermann writes about his impoverished childhood and his realization that he is gifted.
Later in the Book,...
| Author | William T. Vollmann |
Since the publication of his first book in 1987, William T. Vollmann has established himself as one of the most fascinating and unconventional literary figures on the scene today. Named one of the twenty best writers under forty by the New Yorker in 1999, Vollmann received the best reviews of his career...
| Author | Francis Steegmuller |
| ISBN | 1590171160 |
Francis Steegmuller's beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world's greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young...
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 1843911124 |
An intense, passionate, and profoundly moving work, Flaubert's November explores the notions of desire and longing to most remarkable effect. Wrestling with the agony of loneliness, a young man withdraws deeper into himself, believing he has now reached the autumn of his life. His increasing hopelessness...
