The Setting Sun

Osamu Dazai

评分 8.3分

This powerful and tragic novel vividly paints life in a nation in social and moral crisis. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal

Cathay

Ezra Pound

评分 8.6分

Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist poet Ezra Pound based on Ernest Fenollosa's notes that came into Pound's possession in 1913. At first Pou

Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

Jose Emilio Pacheco

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Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.

Antigonick

Anne Carson

评分 9.2分

Dublinesque

Enrique Vila-Matas

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Dublinesque opens with a renowned and retired literary publisher’s dream: he finds himself in Dublin, a city he’s never visited, and the mood is full of passion and despair. Afterwards he's obsessed w

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector

评分 8.8分

A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poet

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

评分 8.4分

The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. "Nightwood," Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that someho

Laughter in the Dark

Vladimir Nabokov

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A reissue of the classic novel from the author of "Lolita" which brilliantly portrays one man's ruin through love and betrayal. ""Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus.

Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

评分 9.4分

The dark side of "On the Road" instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considere

Paris Spleen

Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse

评分 9.2分

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, "The Flowers of Evil": the city and its s