Literature and the Gods
7 best books like Literature and the Gods (Roberto Calasso): No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel, Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse, The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, The Book of Monelle, Studies in Hysteria, For He Can Creep
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
| Author | Chris Baty |
| ISBN | 0811845052 |
You've always wanted to write, but . . . just haven't gotten around to it. No Plot? No Problem! is the kick in the pants you've been waiting for.
Let Chris Baty, founder of the rockin' literary marathon National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo), guide you through four exciting weeks of...
| Author | Alfred Jarry |
| ISBN | 1878972073 |
Alfred Jarry is best known as the author of the proto-Dada play "Ubu Roi," but this anarchic novel of absurdist philosophy is widely regarded as the central work to his oeuvre. Refused for publication in the author's lifetime, "Exploits and Opinion of Dr. Faustroll" recounts the adventures of the inventor...
| Author | Red Pine |
| ISBN | 1556591950 |
Bilingual: Chinese/English
Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive...
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
| Author | Georges Perec |
| ISBN | 1844674193 |
A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office?
The Art of...
| Author | Marcel Schwob |
| ISBN | 0984115587 |
When Marcel Schwob published "The Book of Monelle" in French in 1894, it immediately became the unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by such contemporaries as Stéphane Mallarmé, Alfred Jarry and André Gide. A carefully woven assemblage of legends, aphorisms, fairy tales...
| Author | Josef Breuer |
| ISBN | 0142437492 |
Hysteria—the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind—is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusive. Freud’s recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient’s past transformed the way we think about sexuality. Studies in Hysteria...
| Author | Siobhan Carroll |
| ISBN | 1250237564 |
A Tor.com original, Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep is a dark fantasy story of poetry, devilry, and cats in a battle of good vs. evil for the fate of humanity.
Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics believing God has commissioned...
