Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century

5 best books like Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (Wolfgang Schivelbusch): The Late Mattia Pascal, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, Lizard, El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City, Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

The Late Mattia Pascal

Author	Luigi Pirandello
ISBN	1590171152

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Author

Fernando Pessoa

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 When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable...

Lizard

Author	Banana Yoshimoto
ISBN	0571212158

I can never tell if short stories are better when they have a beginning, middle and end like a full length novel, or if they are more powerful as little snippets of someone's life that don't actually 'end' per se.
Yoshimoto's short stories fall into the latter - they are moments/snapshots of lives...

El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City

Author	John Ross
ISBN	1568584245

John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City’s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated...

Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature

Author

Fredric Jameson

For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists--T. W. Adorno, Walter...