Man in the Holocene

9 best books like Man in the Holocene (Max Frisch): Elizabeth Costello, Arcadia, The Golem, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, The Plains, Next World Novella, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Ein fliehendes Pferd, La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag

Elizabeth Costello

Author

J.M. Coetzee

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize for literature, J.M. Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal...

Arcadia

Author	Tom Stoppard
ISBN	0571169341

Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic, scientific,...

The Golem

Author	Gustav Meyrink
ISBN	1873982917

First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum;...

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

Author	Javier Marías
ISBN	0811214826

"No one ever suspects," begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms...." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls...

The Plains

Author	Gerald Murnane
ISBN	1930974280

'Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.'--Teju Cole

'A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.'--Paris Review

'A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable novel.'--Shirley Hazzard

'Deeply mysterious yet grounded in familiar, everyday...

Next World Novella

Author	Matthias Politycki
ISBN	0956284035

Germany's master of wit and irony now for the first time in English.

Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke, Hinrich goes through her papers, only to discover a totally...

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

Author

Karen Barad

Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account...

Ein fliehendes Pferd

Author

Martin Walser

Helmut Halm, Lehrer an einem renommierten Stuttgarter Gymnasium, und seine Frau Sabine verbringen, wie seit Jahren schon, ihre Ferien am Bodensee. Ein Paar in mittleren Jahren, ein vielleicht wohltuend ereignisloses Leben. Man liest, wandert, schottet sich ab. Diese Ferienidylle wird jäh unterbrochen,...

La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag

Author	Józef Czapski
ISBN	8883251520

Settembre 1939. La Polonia è invasa. Come migliaia di polacchi, Joseph Czapski è fatto prigioniero dai russi e rinchiuso nel gulag di Griazowietz. Per vincere la prostrazione e l'angoscia della loro condizione, alcuni prigionieri organizzano incontri dove "ognuno di noi parlava di ciò che meglio...