Homos
10 best books like Homos (Leo Bersani): A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Black Swan Green, The Devil's Elixirs, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, The Stechlin, Sesame and Lilies, For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, Returning to Reims
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0151365040 |
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in...
| Author | Alfred Döblin |
| ISBN | 3423002956 |
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
| Author | David Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0812974018 |
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying...
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 1906210187 |
The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie; but in order to escape the...
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
| Author | Immanuel Kant |
| ISBN | 0521626951 |
Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality,...
| Author | Theodor Fontane |
| ISBN | 1571130241 |
Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the period. The Stechlin is Fontane's last book and his political testament....
| Author | John Ruskin |
| ISBN | 0300092601 |
John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century. This volume returns Sesame...
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most
| Author | Ronald B. Shwartz |
| ISBN | 0425172945 |
This book is not for the casual reader. However, if you are someone who obsesses over what to read next, authors' lives, styles of writing, and consistently have a stack of books to be read by your bed, this book is for you. It's a fascinating glimpse of why authors love their favorite books (and even more...
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
| Author | Michael Warner |
| ISBN | 0674004418 |
A comprehensive and incisive excoriation of same-sex marriage as a movement for "gay liberation." Warner's investigations of the interactions between gay shame and a push for same-sex marriage (see also Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Benjamin Shepard) is a useful lens to explore the millions...
| Author | Didier Eribon |
| ISBN | 1584351233 |
On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my personal trajectory with my shutting myself up inside what I might call a class closet. -- from "Returning to Reims"
After...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0679734473 |
When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana, the setting for this harrowing and transfixing novel by the acclaimed author of 'Rock Springs'. Filled with an abiding sense of love and family, and of the forces that test them to the breaking point, Wildlife—first...
