Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism
10 best books like Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism (George Steiner): Demons, Dream Story, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Philosophical Investigations, The Immoralist, The Nose, The Insulted and Humiliated, The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, How Music Works
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that...
| Author | Arthur Schnitzler |
| ISBN | 0141182245 |
“Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.”
The Bride (1918) by Klimt
It all begins with a confession of sorts as his wife Albertine tells him of a fantasy she had involving a man that she saw on their...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| ISBN | 1610395697 |
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
Philosophical Investigations
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0631231277 |
If you read first Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and then follow it with his Philosophical Investigations, you will treat yourself to perhaps the most fascinating intellectual development in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein has the distinct merit of producing, not one, but two enormously...
| Author | André Gide |
| ISBN | 0142180025 |
In
The Immoralist
, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his father. On the couple's honeymoon to Tunisia, Michel becomes very ill, and...
| Author | Nikolai Gogol |
| ISBN | 0688104649 |
Gogol’s “The Nose” (1835), is an early triumph of surrealism, daring and delightful in the way it jars and disjoins one realitiy from another, but it is also a vivid realistic depiction of the sights and sounds of early 19th century St. Petersburg (including the essential bridges, buildings...
The Insulted and Humiliated
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0898751047 |
The Insulted & Injured, published soon after Dostoevsky's political imprisonment, clearly foreshadows his later preoccupation with unconscious psychological drives & their external effects on the lives of his characters. Where his later works carry these drives to inevitably dramatic...
| Author | Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
| ISBN | 1590171209 |
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales...
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 | David Byrne |
| ISBN | 1936365537 |
Best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the iconic band Talking Heads, David Byrne has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the insightful How Music Works, Byrne offers his unique perspective on music - including...
ISBN 9783150000120 was later reused for Wilhelm Tell
Das 1804 erschienene und in Weimar – unter der Regie von Johann Wolfgang Goethe – uraufgeführte Blankvers-Drama Wilhelm Tell war Friedrich Schillers letztes und lange Zeit erfolgreichstes Stück. Das Geschichtsdrama spielt...
The Complete Illuminated Books
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0500282455 |
In his Illuminated Books, William Blake combined text and imagery on a single page in a way that had not been done since the Middle Ages. For Blake, religion and politics, intellect and emotion, mind and body were both unified and in conflict with each other: his work is expressive of his personal mythology,...
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
| Author | Theodor W. Adorno |
| ISBN | 1844670511 |
Perhaps the great book of the oncoming Trump era. Adorno's depth of observation, critical analysis, and disgust at late-capitalist culture reads as a cry from the least false oracles of Delphi. His intellect burns ultra-bright, spouts of water on a magnesium fire. Aphorism as razor to drain the infection,...
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered—what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn...
| Author | Jens Peter Jacobsen |
| ISBN | 1598183451 |
Jacobsen's immediate importance was his status as the 'writer of his generation.' With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism's dream and religion. . . . Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three...
Entre lo divino y lo humano
Es una brillante obra de Tolstoi inédita en castellano, una historia tejida de amor, obstruida por el orgullo y el clasismo imperante, de ambiciones obligadas y prosperidad, de tormentos autoinfligidos, de miedos, de la creencia en la fe en Dios quien lo ve todo y castiga a quienes no obran según sus...
| Author | Alexander Schimmelbusch |
Victor kann sein albernes Siegerdasein als erfolgreicher Investmentbanker schon lange nicht mehr ernst nehmen. Alle Versuche, sich zu verlieben, scheinen ebenso zum Scheitern verdammt zu sein, wie es seine Ehe war. Er ist ein Produkt der marktorientierten deutschen Gesellschaft und dieselben...
Red ons, Maria Montanelli
| Author | Herman Koch |
| ISBN | 9029037431 |
Het zogenaamd moderne en liberale Montanelli-lyceum, waar kinderen ontzettend creatief moeten zijn en leraren het veel te goed bedoelen, staat centraal in deze angstaanjagend herkenbare roman. Wanneer een zwakbegaafde jongen voor de ogen van de verteller verdrinkt, wordt deze van school gestuurd....
