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Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and "reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg" (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author's homeland.
A searing portrayal of Vienna's bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife-a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenzied tirade against these former friends, most of whom have been brought together by Joana, a woman they buried earlier that day. Reflections on Joana's life and suicide are mixed with these denunciations until the famous actor arrives, bringing an explosive end to the evening that even the writer could not have seen coming.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tone. Sound. Psychology. Humor.
- De Anonymous User en 12-19-23
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Nocturnal Apparitions
- Essential Stories
- De: Bruno Schulz, Stanley Bill - translator
- Narrado por: Steven Ritz-Barr
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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The best of cult author Bruno Schulz's captivatingly strange and beautiful short stories. The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city streets, strange figures roam. Great flocks of birds soar over rooftops, obscuring the sun. Cockroaches appear through cracks and scuttle across floorboards. Individuals careen from university buildings to dimly lit parlour rooms, through strange shops and endless storms.
De: Bruno Schulz, y otros
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Europe Central
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 31 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional: a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must Listen
- De Armen en 03-15-09
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Carpenter's Gothic
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 29
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This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their "carpenter Gothic" rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently suits a mining combine bidding to take over an ore strike on the site of Ude's African mission.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the dialogue is superb
- De Monti Korbelle en 07-01-19
De: William Gaddis
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Hurricane Season
- De: Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes - translator
- Narrado por: Inés del Castillo, Tim Pabon, Ana Osorio
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 175
The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- De Anonymous User en 11-20-20
De: Fernanda Melchor, y otros
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The Dying Grass
- A Novel of the Nez Perce War
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 53 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the US Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from Northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is all the same. Let us kill, die or ride away
- De Darwin8u en 05-24-17
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 184
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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Pedro Páramo
- De: Juan Rulfo, Douglas J. Weatherford - translator
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 19
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A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man’s quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met—Pedro Páramo—but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterpiece ✍🏾📖✍🏾
- De Essam Rajab en 12-22-24
De: Juan Rulfo, y otros
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Solenoid
- De: Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter - translator
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 34 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our Universal Phantasmagoria
- De Isaac Linder en 03-11-24
De: Mircea Cărtărescu, y otros
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Ada, or Ardor
- A Family Chronicle
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 169
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 148
Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the supreme work of an imagination at white heat. This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incest, a game the Whole Family Can Play
- De Darwin8u en 08-12-13
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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Fat City
- De: Leonard Gardner
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
When two men meet in the gym - the ex-boxer Billy Tully and the novice Ernie Munger - their brief sparring session sets into motion their hidden fates, initiating young Munger into the "company of men" and luring Tully back into training. Fat City tells of their anxieties and hopes, their loves and losses, and the stubborn determination of their manager, Ruben Luna, who knows that even the most promising kid is likely to fall prey to some weakness.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book for men
- De Stephen Suggests en 01-26-23
De: Leonard Gardner
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Pnin
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Why not leave their private sorrows to people?
- De Darwin8u en 01-13-20
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Hour of the Star
- New Directions Paperbook
- De: Clarice Lispector
- Narrado por: Melissa Broder
- Duración: 3 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 126
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved.
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1 out of 5 stars
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audio ruins a great book
- De Ella Mc en 08-22-19
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So Long, See You Tomorrow
- De: William Maxwell
- Narrado por: William Maxwell
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 312
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 265
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 260
On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Jewel
- De Amazon Customer en 11-18-17
De: William Maxwell
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The Book of Disquiet
- De: Fernando Pessoa
- Narrado por: Adam Sims
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Assembled from notes and jottings left unpublished at the time of the author’s death, The Book of Disquiet is a collection of aphoristic prose-poetry musings on dreams, solitude, time and memory. Credited to Pessoa’s alter ego, Bernardo Soares, who chronicles his contemplations in this so-called "factless" autobiography, the work is a journey of one man’s soul and, by extension, of all human souls that allow their minds and hearts to roam far and free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The book that saved my life
- De Hutchinson en 03-09-21
De: Fernando Pessoa
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Beware of Pity
- De: Stefan Zweig
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 14 h y 43 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 223
In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite authors
- De Adeliese Baumann en 03-21-18
De: Stefan Zweig
great voice.
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Literary fiction with a spectacular narrator
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I found the narrator to be very helpful And Slowly found the repetition To be Almost Mesmerizing, wonderful use of craft!
Dense yet Wonderful Exploration of Art
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Prime Dishes
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