Gargoyles

Author	Samuel Beckett
ISBN	0802150373

'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish...

Author	David Markson
ISBN	1564782115

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...

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Knut Hamsun

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	James Joyce
ISBN	0571131646

Brilliant.
Absolutely. Fucking. Brilliant
Joyce is, no doubt, the mythic, masterful madman who I believe to be THE greatest writer in literary history thus far (of course, I still have much left to read...particularly the works of Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, etc...any one of...

Author	Robert Walser
ISBN	0811215903

Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place"). Charged with compassion,...

Author	Knut Hamsun
ISBN	1892295105

On Overgrown Paths was written after World War II, at a time when Hamsun was in police custody for his openly expressed Nazi sympathies during the German occupation of Norway, 1940-45. A Nobel laureate deeply beloved by his countrymen, Hamsun was now reviled as a traitor—as long as his sanity was not...