La Folie Baudelaire

5 best books like La Folie Baudelaire (Roberto Calasso): Dracul, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The World of Yesterday, The Human Condition, Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears

Dracul
AuthorDacre Stoker
The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's--and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them.

It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0143039881
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
The World of Yesterday
AuthorStefan Zweig
ISBN0803252242
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction....
The Human Condition
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0226025985
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is a in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable....
Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears
AuthorTom Lutz
ISBN0393321037
In this wide-ranging and provocative study, Tom Lutz looks at the ways people have understood weeping from the earliest known representations of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. to the tears found in today’s films. Drawing on works of literature, philosophy, art, and science from the writings...
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