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MY FAVORITE BOOKS |
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MY FAVORITE BOOKS |
Russian novels | Anglo-american novels | German novels | French novels | Japanese novels | Hispanic novels | Tales & Short Stories| Philosophy | Essays | Poetry | Theater |
Not just books that you can read but books that read you...
What do you need, my friend? Gothic stories, existentialist novels, terrifying tales, short stories, murder stories. Everything's here!
All these books deeply shocked me, moved me, killed me, and quite a lot of them even changed my life. Maybe one of them will change your life too! Let's read!
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MY
FAVORITE BOOK: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND - DOSTOEVSKY
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Read the 'Notes from the underground' of Dostoevsky and you will know a little more about me... (in French Carnets du sous-sol) "I AM A SICK MAN.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me."
NOVELS
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY
- Notes from the Underground (1864) 
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - Crime and Punishment (1866)
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - The Idiot (1868)
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - The Devils (1872)
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - The Double
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - The Gambler (1866)
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - The House of the Dead (1862)
GOGOL - Dead Souls (1842)
Leo TOLSTOY - Resurrection
Maxim GORKY - The Mother (1907)
Maxim GORKY - Childhood (1913)
Ivan GONCHAROV -Oblomov (1859)
AGUEEV - Novel with cocaine
ZAMYATIN - We (1922)
Ernest HEMINGWAY - The Sun also Rises (1926)
Jack KEROUAC - On the Road (1957)
Charles BUKOWSKI - Factotum
Charles BUKOWSKI - Women
John FANTE - Ask the Dust (1939)
John FANTE - My Dog Stupid
John FANTE - The Orgy
John FANTE - The Road to Los Angeles
Richard BRAUTIGAN - So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away (1982)
Richard BRAUTIGAN- Sombrero Fall Out (1976)
Richard BRAUTIGAN - Hawkline Monster
Richard BRAUTIGAN - Dreaming of Babylon
Richard BRAUTIGAN - Trout Fishing in America (1967)
Richard BRAUTIGAN - A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964)
Richard BRAUTIGAN -The Abortion (1971)
Henry MILLER - The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus (1949) - Plexus (1952) - Nexus (1960)
Henry MILLER - The World of Sex (1940)
Henry MILLER - Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Henry MILLER - Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
Henry MILLER - A Devil in Paradise, the Story of Conrad Moricand (1956)
Henry MILLER - Quiet Days in Clichy
Malcolm LOWRY- Under the Volcano (1947)
George ORWELL - 1984 (1949)
George ORWELL - Animal Farm (1945)
Anthony
BURGESS - Clockwork Orange (1962)
M.G. LEWIS - The Monk (1796)
Mary SHELLEY - Frankenstein (1818)
Robert Louis STEVENSON - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland (1865)
Henry JAMES - The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Vladimir NABOKOV - Lolita (1958)
Vladimir NABOKOV - The Eye (Le guetteur) (1930) I translated it into French
PHILIP K. DICK - Radio Free Albemuth
Brett EASTON ELLIS - American Psycho
Brett EASTON ELLIS - Less than Zero
J. D. SALINGER - The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
William BURROUGHS - The Naked Lunch (1964)
William BURROUGHS - Junkie (1953)
Paul AUSTER - New York Trilogy
Carson MC CULLERS - Frankie Addams (1946)
Carson MC CULLERS - Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941)
James ELLROY - Black Dahlia (1987)
James ELLROY - Silent Terror
Jim Thompson
- The Hell of a Woman
Franz KAFKA - The Trial (1925)
Franz KAFKA - The Castle (1926)
Franz KAFKA - America
SUSKIND Patrick - The Perfume (1985)
Albert CAMUS - L'étranger (The Stranger) (1942)
Albert CAMUS - La chute (The Fall) (1956)
Samuel BECKETT - Molloy (1951)
Samuel BECKETT - Malone dies (1951)
Samuel BECKETT - Premier amour (First Love)
CALAFERTE Louis - Septentrion (1963)
Louis CALAFERTE - La Mécanique des Femmes (1992)
SAINT-EXUPERY - Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) (1943)
Victor HUGO - Dernier Jour d'un Condamné
Denis DIDEROT - Le neveu de Rameau (1805)
Guy de MAUPASSANT - Pierre et Jean (1888)
Michel HOUELLEBECQ - Extension du domaine de la lutte (Whatever) (1994)
Michel HOUELLEBECQ - Les Particules Elementaires (1998)
Michel HOUELLEBECQ - Plateforme
Lydie SALVAYRE - La puissance des mouches
Georges PEREC - Un homme qui dort
Louis-Ferdiand CELINE - Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) (1932)
Joris-Karl HUYSMANS - A rebours (1884)
Benjamin CONSTANT - Adolphe
(1816) 
Charles JULIET - Lambeaux
KAWABATA - Snow Country (1948)
SOSEKI - I am a Cat
ROSALES Guillermo - Boarding Home
CERVANTES - Don Quixote (1605)
SCANDINAVIAN NOVELS
Knut HAMSUN - Hunger (1890)
"Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing." MacBeth - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Herman MELVILLE - Bartleby
Denis JOHNSON - Jesus' Son (Book Title)
MURAKAMI Haruki - Stories after the quake
Franz KAFKA - The Metamorphosis - In the Penal Colony - The Verdict - The Burrow
Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - White Nights (1847-1848)
TOLSTOY - The Death of Ivan Ilitch (1886) - Kreutzer Sonata (1889) - Master and Servant (1895) - The Forged Coupon
ANDREEV Leonid - The Thought
MAUPASSANT - Le Horla
SARTRE - The Wall (book title) - Erostrate (Erostratus)
VOLTAIRE - Candide (1761)
VOLTAIRE - Micromégas (1752)
FLAUBERT - Un coeur simple
(in French)
CHEKHOV - The Lady with the Dog - Room N°6
GOGOL - The Overcoat (1841) - The Nose (1835) - Diary of a Madman (1835)
Edgar Allan POE - Eleonora (I translated it in French) - Ligeia - The Gold Bug - The Black Cat - The Purloined Letter
FITZGERALD - The Crack-Up
BUKOWSKI - Tales of Ordinary Madness (Book Title) - The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
John CHEEVER - The Swimmer
All short stories by Raymond CARVER
Richard BRAUTIGAN - Revenge of the Lawn (book title) (1971)
Richard BRAUTIGAN - The Tokyo-Montana Express (book title) (1981)
LOVECRAFT - The Night Ocean
Julio CORTAZAR - Axolotl
Sherwood ANDERSON - Nobody
Knows
(I translated it in French)
Katherine MANSFIELD - Feuille d'Album (I translated it in French)
Alexie SHERMAN - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (I translated it in French)
Akira YOSHIMURA - La jeune fille suppliciée sur une étagère
BORGES - Fictions (1944)
Friedrich NIETZSCHE - Ecce Homo
NIETZSCHE - Thus Spake Zarathustra
NIETZSCHE - Beyond Good & Evil (1887)
NIETZSCHE - Birth of Tragedy (1872)
HERACLITUS - Fragments
CAMUS - The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Blaise PASCAL - Thoughts (1670)
HUXLEY Aldous - The Doors of Perception (1956)
JOCHO
YAMAMOTO - Hagakure
Stig Dagerman - Our Need of
Consolation is Boundless - Notre besoin de consolation
est impossible à rassasier 1952
Robert BURTON (1577-1640) - Anatomy of Melancholy 1621
Antonin ARTAUD - Van Gogh, le suicidé de la société (1947)
Henry Miller - The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder (1948)
Robert Louis STEVENSON - Apology of Idles
William BLAKE - Proverbs of Hell - Songs of Innocence (1789) - Songs of Experience (1794) - Mariage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)
Edgar Allan POE - Annabel Lee - Alone
Antonin ARTAUD - Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu (1947)
Arthur RIMBAUD - Season in Hell (1873)
Charles BAUDELAIRE - Flowers of Evil (1857)
LAUTREAMONT - Songs of Maldoror (1869)
Guillaume APOLLINAIRE - Alcools (1913)
Rainer Maria RILKE - Book of Poverty and Death
Fernando PESSOA - The Book of Disquiet
Georg TRAKL (German expressionnist poet)
Gotttfried BENN (German expressionnist poet) - Morgue (1912)
Federico GARCIA LORCA - Poema del cante jondo (1923-1927) - Romancero gitano (1928)
Charles JULIET
Samuel BECKETT - Waiting for Godot - End of Game - Krapp's Last Tape
William SHAKESPEARE - Hamlet (1603) - Othello (1622) - Macbeth (1606)
SOPHOCLES - Antigone 442 B.C. - Oedipe Roi 430 B.C.
GOETHE - Faust (1773)
Albert CAMUS - Caligula (1941)
Jean-Paul SARTRE - Huis Clos (1944)
Jules ROMAINS - Knock (1923)
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