Selected Poems and Fragments
10 best books like Selected Poems and Fragments (Friedrich Hölderlin): The Tin Drum, Three Tales, Winesburg, Ohio, Metamorphoses, Hymns to the Night, Against Nature, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Maldoror and Poems, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories
| Author | Günter Grass |
| ISBN | 0099483505 |
I had an intense reaction to this book. I friggin hated it. Or, rather, I loved to hate it, while I was reading it. It was an assignment in a Postmodern Lit. class, and everyone in the class liked the protagonist but me. I thought he was awful. I couldn't believe they enjoyed him, much less admitted to enjoying...
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0140448004 |
First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness, and religious experience; together they confirm Flaubert as a master of the short story. A Simple Heart (also published as A Simple Soul), relates the story of Félicité, an uneducated serving-woman...
| Author | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | 0192839772 |
zut, alors! i don't even know where to begin. i had such a complicated reaction to this book. am i the only person who didn't find this depressing?? this book is life - it is tender and gentle and melancholy and real. not everything works out according to plan here, but what ever does? that's not necessarily...
Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...
| Author | Novalis |
| ISBN | 0914232908 |
This bilingual, revised, third edition of Dick Higgins' popular translation presents the complete Athenaum version of Frederich von Hardenburgh's classic romantic long poem, and the substantially different manuscript version of the first section. The German text is en face. The six hymns comprise...
| Author | Joris-Karl Huysmans |
| ISBN | 0140447636 |
With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
| Author | Comte de Lautréamont |
Alternate version of this book.
‘It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity.’
So wrote the self-styled Comte de Lautréamont (1846–70) at the beginning of this sensational Chants de Maldoror.
One...
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 1573225851 |
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 0140185526 |
A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0915144948 |
(Part II of Thoughts Out of Season)
"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.” These are Goethe’s words with which, as with a boldly expressed ceterum censeo, we may begin our consideration of the worth and worthlessness...
