The Perfect Fool

8 best books like The Perfect Fool (Stewart Lee): The Dispossessed, Concrete Island, The Guest Cat, The Great God Pan, The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, 世界から猫が消えたなら, Animism: Respecting the Living World

The Dispossessed
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0061054887
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly...
Concrete Island
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as...
The Guest Cat
AuthorTakashi Hiraide
ISBN0811221504
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live...
The Great God Pan
AuthorArthur Machen
ISBN1871592119
The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as...
The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future
AuthorWill Self
ISBN1596911239
When cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only child with her, he is thrown into a tailspin of doubt and discontent. Fearing his son will never know his father, Dave pens a gripping text--part memoir, part deranged philosophical treatise, and part handbook...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0375757910
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
世界から猫が消えたなら
AuthorGenki Kawamura
ISBN4838725027
‘Like love,life is beautiful
because it has to end ‘

A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love,of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life.
Our narrator’s days are numbered.
Estranged from his family,living alone with...
AuthorGraham Harvey
How have human cultures engaged with and thought about animals, plants, rocks, clouds, and other elements in their natural surroundings? Do animals and other natural objects have a spirit or soul? What is their relationship to humans? In this new study, Graham Harvey explores current and past animistic...
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