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10 best books like Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies (Ken Kalfus): Swann's Way, Nikolski, Seven Japanese Tales, Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, The Lake, Platform, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, Folk-Tales of the British Isles, Aurélia and Other Writings, Impressions of Africa

Swann's Way
AuthorMarcel Proust
ISBN0142437964
Swann's Way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his...
Nikolski
AuthorNicolas Dickner
ISBN1590307143
Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal, each on a voyage of self-discovery, dealing with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree.

Filled with humor, charm, and...
Seven Japanese Tales
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN0679761071
I purchased this book in a bookstore off Piccadilly Circus waiting to meet someone. After hours of conversation, we separated, taking our respective tunnels to catch our trains. Every time I see this book, I remember that goodbye. Funny, the things that serve as fluttering markers to our memories.

I'm...
Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with . . . our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations...
The Lake
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
ISBN4770030010
This story of a stalker is a unique work by the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner for Literature.

The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous...
Platform
AuthorMichel Houellebecq
ISBN1400030269
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.

In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as...
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
AuthorD.G. Compton
ISBN0575118318
A forgotten SF classic that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the reality show craze.

A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old age. The few exceptions provide...
Folk-Tales of the British Isles
AuthorKevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN0394755537
A miscellaneous collection. Tales of fairies, fairy tales, ghost stories, tales of heroes, legends, jocular tales. . . .

If you are looking for one of those types, you may have to read through them all, because they are organized by themes that sometimes cross them. Some are literary -- we have...
Aurélia and Other Writings
AuthorGérard de Nerval
Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled -bohemians, - Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue...
Impressions of Africa
AuthorRaymond Roussel
ISBN0714502898
The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language.In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre...
Animorphs
AuthorK.A. Applegate
ISBN0590112058
Animorphs "RM" is an exciting series for young adult readers about five teens who are given the power to "morph" into any animal they touch and then to absorb its DNA. This power is granted them by a dying Andalite alien named Elfangor, who also warns the teens that Earth is being threatened secretly by...
Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers
AuthorPierre Guyotat
ISBN1840680628
This book is soaked in blood, smeared with shit, stinking of putrefaction and sticky with cum. And it's about innocence.
Innocence is a wild flower blossomed in a mass grave.

Guyotat took part in the Algerian war in 1960, at the age of 20, and started working on "Tomb for 500.000 Soldiers"...
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
AuthorGaston Bachelard
"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand...
Watchfiends and Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period
AuthorAntonin Artaud
ISBN1878972189
From the thin line between genius and madness that Artaud had often walked enigmatically, he appears to have left the line completely during this period, in the process of becoming "suicided by society", meditating on alchemy, and myth, Nerval's hanging himself by street lamp being more than just...
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
AuthorRoland Barthes
ISBN0374521344
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outside the codes of language or culture, acting on the body as much as on the mind, and rendering death...
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