Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

5 best books like Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (Stanley Cavell): Trust Exercise, Homesick for Another World, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, Paris Peasant

Trust Exercise

Author	Susan Choi
ISBN	1250309883

Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...

Homesick for Another World

Author	Ottessa Moshfegh
ISBN	0399562885

An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.

There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady...

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

Author

Erich Auerbach

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught...

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Author	Theodor W. Adorno
ISBN	0804736332

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface,...

Paris Peasant

Author	Louis Aragon
ISBN	1878972103

Paris Peasant (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form--Aragon consciously avoided recognizable narration...