Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
6 best books like Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (Felipe Alfau): A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, The Redemption of Galen Pike, The Glass Bees, Faithful Ruslan, Shyness and Dignity, The Miner
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0679731377 |
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they...
| Author | Carys Davies |
| ISBN | 1907773711 |
In a remote Australian settlement a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home. A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned man in a Colorado jail. In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change...
| Author | Ernst Jünger |
| ISBN | 0940322552 |
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Jünger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of...
| Author | Georgi Vladimov |
| ISBN | 1935554670 |
Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian)
Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps...
| Author | Dag Solstad |
| ISBN | 1555974465 |
An Ibsen scholar falls desperately out of society—publication coinciding with Ibsen's 100th anniversary celebrations
In front of him, twenty-nine young men and women about the age of eighteen who looked at him and returned his greeting. He asked them to take out their school edition of...
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0804714606 |
Up front, I'll admit that I'd expected a completely different novel from what I'd read about it as a blurb. I'd expected a book of a darker and more poetic vein.
Instead I got a book that felt like Goethe's Werther had teamed up with Salinger's Holden Caulfield to write a shorter version of The Life...
