Jean Barois
8 best books like Jean Barois (Roger Martin du Gard): Zeno's Conscience, Fear and Trembling, The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media, Feynman, Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, My Lost Family, Les ignorants. Récit d'une initiation croisée
| Author | Italo Svevo |
| ISBN | 0375727760 |
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in...
| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN | 0143037579 |
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety...
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
| Author | Brooke Gladstone |
| ISBN | 0393077799 |
Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern media. This brilliant radio personality now bursts onto the page as an illustrated character in vivid comics drawn by acclaimed artist Josh Neufeld. The cartoon...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 1596432594 |
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest...
| Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
| ISBN | 1596430966 |
"When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he'd like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did."
When Alan Cope joined the army and went off to fight in World War II, he had no idea what he was getting into. This graphic memoir is the story of his life during wartime, a story...
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It was first published in the March 1967 issue of IF: Worlds of Science Fiction.
It won a Hugo Award in 1968. The name was also used for a short story collection of Ellison's work, featuring this story....
A family must come to terms with the past when two missing children reappear after 40 years. As the secrets unravel in this real-life tale, can the family lay to rest the ghosts of the past? Growing up in a poor Yiddish-speaking home in 1950s London, teenager Lillian marries a charming older man, Raymond....
Les ignorants. Récit d'une initiation croisée
| Author | Étienne Davodeau |
| ISBN | 2754803823 |
Étienne Davodeau est auteur de bande dessinée, il ne sait pas grand-chose du monde du vin. Richard Leroy est vigneron, il n'a quasiment jamais lu de bande dessinée.
Mais ces deux-là sont pleins de bonne volonté et de curiosité. Pourquoi choisit-on de consacrer sa vie à écrire et dessiner...
