Come Back, Dr. Caligari
10 best books like Come Back, Dr. Caligari (Donald Barthelme): Gog, Les Fleurs du Mal, The Invention of Morel, Mason & Dixon, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, Ghosts, Giles Goat-Boy, Willard and His Bowling Trophies, Pillars of Society, David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s
20. yüzyılın ilk yarısının en tartışmalı yazınsal kişiliklerinden biri olan Giovanni Papini (1881-1956), Gog'da yarattığı saf, cahil ama bir yandan da dünyada olup bitenin nedenini arayan Amerikalı milyarder tipi aracılığıyla olağandışı bir portreler galerisi...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0879234628 |
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?
In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170571 |
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...
| Author | Thomas Pynchon |
| ISBN | 0312423209 |
The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997
Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997
Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon...
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0679722319 |
By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greatest practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers.
'Where I'm Calling From', his last collection,...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1420927957 |
Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty...
| Author | John Barth |
| ISBN | 0385240864 |
MJ Nicholls inquires:
"I have been tempted to read this for some time, but Nate's review put me off. What do you make of his thoughts?:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..."
The first part.
I am an not an impartial commentator on John Barth's work. I...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0671220659 |
The story takes place in San Francisco in the early 1970s. The title character is a papier mache bird that shares the front room of an apartment with a collection of bowling trophies that some time earlier were stolen from the home of the Logan brothers. The human tenants of this apartment are John and Pat,...
| Author | Henrik Ibsen |
| ISBN | 1406953539 |
'There! I have given it him in earnest now; I don't think he will forget that thrashing! What do you say?--And I say that you are an injudicious mother! You make excuses for him, and countenance any sort of rascality on his part--Not rascality? What do you call it, then? Slipping out of the house at night,...
David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s
| Author | David Goodis |
| ISBN | 1598531484 |
Among the pantheon of American crime writers—those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing—David Goodis was a unique figure. Born in Philadelphia, he brought a jazzy, expressionist style and an almost hallucinatory...
