The Bells of Basel
8 best books like The Bells of Basel (Louis Aragon): La Curée, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, Civil Disobedience, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Gay Science, La Horde du Contrevent, Ukraine Diaries, Désorientale
| Author | Émile Zola |
| ISBN | 2253003662 |
A la fin d’une chasse, pendant la curée, les chiens dévorent les entrailles de la bête tuée. Pour le jeune Zola, qui déteste son époque, c’est le cœur de Paris, entaillé par les larges avenues de Napoléon III, que des spéculateurs véreux s’arrachent. Ce deuxième volume des Rougon-Macquart,...
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
| Author | Machado de Assis |
| ISBN | 0850515025 |
a sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery
we read an author and wonder 'how is it possible that this genius is not known?'... yes, only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. along with carpentier and mutis, he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot.
here are three reasons...
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
Book Review
I read this nearly twenty years ago in a college course. I recently found my notes and listed a few below, so this isn’t a typical review you’ve seen from me.
My reaction to this work is pretty complicated. It had some thought-invoking ideas, but it was boring from a readability...
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
| Author | Tadeusz Borowski |
| ISBN | 0140186247 |
Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| ISBN | 0394719859 |
If you read Nietzsche while not in the midst of some variety of emo existential crisis, Nietzsche is hilarious and insightful. If, however, you choose to read Nietzsche in high school in order to be counter-culture, odds are good Nietzsche will temporarily turn you into a horrible, pompous ass. Nietzsche...
| Author | Alain Damasio |
| ISBN | 2070342263 |
Imaginez une Terre poncée, avec en son centre une bande de cinq mille kilomètres de large et sur ses franges un miroir de glace à peine rayable, inhabité. Imaginez qu’un vent féroce en rince la surface. Que les villages qui s’y sont accrochés, avec leurs maisons en goutte d’eau, les chars...
| Author | Andrey Kurkov |
| ISBN | 1846559472 |
Kurkov's diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November 2013, and describe the violent clashes in the Maidan, the impeachment of Yanukovcyh, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the separatist uprisings in the east of Ukraine. Going beyond the headlines, they give vivid insight...
Si nous étions en Iran, cette salle d’attente d’hôpital ressemblerait à un caravansérail, songe Kimiâ. Un joyeux foutoir où s’enchaîneraient bavardages, confidences et anecdotes en cascade. Née à Téhéran, exilée à Paris depuis ses dix ans, Kimiâ a toujours essayé de tenir...
