Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations

7 best books like Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations (Jacques Roubaud): The Tartar Steppe, Memoirs of Hadrian, The Golem, Mythologies, The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel), Double or Nothing, Disagreeable Tales

The Tartar Steppe

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...

Memoirs of Hadrian

Author	Marguerite Yourcenar
ISBN	0374529264

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally,...

The Golem

Author	Gustav Meyrink
ISBN	1873982917

First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum;...

Mythologies

Author	Roland Barthes
ISBN	0374521506

"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than this book—one of the most significant works in French theory, and one that has transformed the way...

The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)

Author	Macedonio Fernández
ISBN	1934824062

The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) is the very definition of a novel written ahead of its time. Macedonio (known to everyone by his unusual first name) worked on this novel in the 1930s and early ’40s, during the heyday of Argentine literary culture, and around the same time that At...

Double or Nothing

Author	Raymond Federman
ISBN	1573660752

Double or Nothing is a concrete novel in which the words become physical materials on the page. Federman gives each of these pages a shape or structure, most often a diagram or picture. The words move, cluster, jostle, and collide in a tour de force full of puns, parodies, and imitations. Within these...

Disagreeable Tales

Author	Léon Bloy
ISBN	1939663105

Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," Léon Bloy. Disagreeable Tales, first published in French in 1894, collects Bloy's narrative sermons from the depths: a cauldron of frightful...