The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
9 best books like The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (Dubravka Ugrešić): A Small Place, Too Loud a Solitude, El bosque animado, The Question of Bruno, On the Aesthetic Education of Man, The Guiltless, Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik, Ännu ett liv, Cheese
| Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
| ISBN | 0374527075 |
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...
| Author | Bohumil Hrabal |
| ISBN | 0349102627 |
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell which of his thoughts are his own and which come from...
| Author | Wenceslao Fernández Flórez |
| ISBN | 8475253423 |
La aldea gallega de San Salvador de Cecebre tiene una fraga cuyos habitantes son seres animados: hablan los pinos, las truchas o los gatos. El propio autor lo dice: “Este es el libro de la fraga de Cecebre”. En ella habitan un asaltador de caminos, Xan de Malvís o Fendetestas , el ánima en pena Fiz...
| Author | Aleksandar Hemon |
| ISBN | 0375727000 |
In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.
A love affair is experienced in the blink of...
| Author | Friedrich Schiller |
| ISBN | 0486437396 |
“Essential reading.” — New Society.
A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller’s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy’s most profound works. In addition to its importance to the history of ideas, this 1795 essay remains relevant...
| Author | Hermann Broch |
| ISBN | 0810160781 |
Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters—an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name (Broch mostly refers...
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1598530097 |
Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem’s words, “wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely...
| Author | Theodor Kallifatides |
Theodor Kallifatides känner krafterna sina och bestämmer sig för att det är dags att sluta skriva. Han gör sig av med arbetsrummet dit han gått varje morgon i decennier – och blir alldeles vilsen. Kan han verkligen sluta skriva? Osäkert. Men kan han skriva? Det blir också allt svårare. Tills...
Cheese è il primo graphic novel di ZUZU, la più giovane autrice mai pubblicata da Coconino Press, che ha affidato questa storia a fumetti alla cura di Gipi nelle vesti di “Mago” d’eccezione. È la storia dell’amicizia tra ZUZU, Dario e Riccardo. Gli innamoramenti folli, la noia delle giornate...
