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Albert Camus's the Stranger
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791059286 (0-7910-5928-6)
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Asfixia / Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN 8497933486 (84-9793-348-6)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 0679783393 (0-679-78339-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A better title for this book might be The Indispensable Writings of Nietzsche. Indeed, the six selections contained in Walter Kaufmann's volume are not only critical elements of Nietzsche's oeuvre, they are must-reads for any aspiring student of philosophy. Those coming to Nietzsche for the first time will be pleased to find three of his best-known works--The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, and On the Genealogy of Morals--as well as a collection of 75 aphorisms drawn from Nietzsche's celebrated aphoristic work. In addition, there are two lesser known, but important, pieces in The Case of Wagner and Ecce Homo. Kaufmann's lucid and accurate translations have been the gold standard of Nietzsche scholarship since the 1950s, and this volume does not disappoint.
Anyone who has slogged their way through the swamps of German philosophical writing---in Kant or Hegel or Heidegger--will find Nietzsche a refreshing and exhilarating change. The selections are well chosen, and a cover-to-cover read will aptly depict Nietzsche's philosophy. In this volume the reader will find many of Nietzsche's polemical (and frequently misunderstood) ratiocinations on Christianity, Socrates, Germany, and art. Here, too, are his seminal and unforgettable critiques of Western morality ("That lambs dislike great birds of prey does not seem strange: only it gives no ground for reproaching these birds of prey for bearing off little lambs"). For philosophical fireworks, Nietzsche can hardly be matched. His brazen defiance of intellectualism's conventions still rings in contemporary thought because he practiced philosophy with a hammer. --Eric de Place [via]
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Best English Short Stories 4
by Giles Gordon, David Hughes

ISBN 0393034410 (0-393-03441-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern

ISBN 140651067X (1-4065-1067-X)
Softcover, Dodo Pr

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing, questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it seems as if it were hardly commenced. Is it any wonder if we at last grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn impatiently away? That this Sphinx teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves? WHO is it really that puts questions to us here? WHAT really is this "Will to Truth" in us? In fact we made a long halt at the question as to the origin of this Will - until at last we came to an absolute standstill before a yet more fundamental question. We inquired about the VALUE of this Will. Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us - or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem? Which of us is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk. [via]
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Beyond Good And Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 1420922505 (1-4209-2250-5)
Softcover, Digireads.Com

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He's one of the most debated writers of the 19th century: Nietzsche and his works have been by turns vilified, lauded, and subjected to numerous contradictory interpretations, and yet he remains a figure of profound import, and his works a necessary component of a well-rounded education. This 1885 book serves as both vital introduction to and valuable summation of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole. Here, broken down into bite-size segments are the great thinker's outlook on philosophical bias, religion, morality, virtue, nationalism, free-spiritedness, scholarship, gender relations, and other weighty topics. German psychologist and philosopher FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was appointed special professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the precocious age of 24, but soon found himself dissatisfied with academic life and created an alternative intellectual society for himself among friends including composer Richard Wagner, historian Jakob Burckhardt, and theologian Franz Overbeck. Among his philosophical works are Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Ecce Homo. ______________________________________ ALSO FROM COSIMO Nietzsche's The Use and Abuse of History, Thus Spake Zarathustra, and The Anti-Christ [via]
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Beyond Good and Evil:Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ISBN 0140442677 (0-14-044267-7)
Hardcover, Penguin

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This work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a "slave morality." With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own "will to power" upon the world.
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Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN 0385720920 (0-385-72092-0)
Softcover, Anchor Books

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We can more or less deduce the following of the main protagonist in Choke; Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a medical school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzehimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. Welcome, once again, to the world of Chuck Palahniuk.
"Art never comes from happiness" says Mancini's mother only a few pages into the novel. Given her own dicey and melodramatic style of parenting, you would think that her son's life would be chock full of nothing but art. Alas, that's not the case--in the fine tradition of Oedipus, Stephen Dedalus and Anthony Soprano, Victor hasn't quite reconciled his issues with his mother. Instead, he's trawling sexual-addiction recovery meetings for dates and purposely choking in restaurants for a few moments of attention. Longing for a hug, in other words, he's settling for the Heimlich.
Thematically, this is pretty familiar Palanhiuk territory. It would be a pity to disclose the surprises of the plot but suffice to say that what we have here is a little bit of Tom Robbins's Another Roadside Attraction, a little bit of Don DeLillo's The Day Room and, well, a little bit of Fight Club. Just as with that book and the other two novels under Palahniuk's belt, we get a smattering of gloriously unflinching sound bites, such as this sceptical slight on prayer chains: "A spiritual pyramid scheme. As if you can gang up on God. Bully him around."
Whether this is the novel that will break Palanhiuk into the mainstream is hard to say. For a fourth book, in fact, the ratio of iffy, "dude"-intensive dialogue to interesting and insightful passages is a little higher than we might wish. In the end though, the author's nerve and daring pull the whole thing off--just. And what's next for Victor Mancini's creator? Leave the last word to him, declaring as he does on the final pages: "Maybe it's our job to invent something better ... What it's going to be, I don't know." --Bob Michaels, Amazon.com [via]
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Diary
by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN 1400032814 (1-4000-3281-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, shes now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesnt stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages theyve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.

Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from Americas most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuks most impressive work to date. [via]
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El Extranjero
by Albert Camus

ISBN 9500423693 (950-04-2369-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Fathers and Children
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Avril Pyman

ISBN 1857150171 (1-85715-017-1)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library

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Fathers and Children
by Simmons

ISBN 0030096502 (0-03-009650-2)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub

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Introduction by John Bayley; Translation by Avril Pyman [via]
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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

ISBN 1592243851 (1-59224-385-1)
Softcover, Wildside Pr

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When arkady petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend accompanying him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young bazarov shocks arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away the traditional values of contemporary russian society. Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when "fathers and sons" was first published in 1862. But many could sympathize with arkady's fascination with the nihilistic hero whose story vividly captures the hopes and regrets of a changing russia [via]
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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev

ISBN 1853262862 (1-85326-286-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided Russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Features an introduction by Anna Tolstoy in an exciting new Bantam Classics' package. [via]
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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN 0393327345 (0-393-32734-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.
But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels [via]
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Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis Ferdinand Celine

ISBN 0714541397 (0-7145-4139-7)
Softcover, Riverrun Pr

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When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-Century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism. [via]
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Journey to the End of the Night
by Ralph Manheim, Louis Ferdinand Celine

ISBN 0811216543 (0-8112-1654-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-Century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism. [via]
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L Etranger
by Albert Camus

ISBN 0135307902 (0-13-530790-2)
Softcover, Appleton & Lange

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LÉtranger est un roman dAlbert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la trilogie que Camus nommera « cycle de labsurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : labsurde. Cette trilogie comprend également lessai philosophique intitulé Le Mythe de Sisyphe ainsi que les deux pièces de théâtre Caligula et Le Malentendu. Le roman a été traduit en quarante langues et une adaptation cinématographique a été réalisée par Luchino Visconti en 1967.

En 1999. La revue Le Monde classa ce roman premier parmi les 100 romans du siècle.

Meursault, le narrateur, employé de bureau algérois, apprend la mort de sa mère. Il prend l'autobus pour se rendre à l'asile où elle a fini ses jours et assiste avec indifférence à la veillée et à l'enterrement. Le lendemain, samedi, il rencontre Marie dans un établissement de bains, l'emmène au cinéma et passe la nuit avec elle. Le dimanche s'étire dans l'ennui et le désoeuvrement. Meursault retrouve son bureau et ses voisins: Céleste le restaurateur, le vieux Salamano qui bat son chien, et Raymond Sintès, dont on dit dans le quartier qu'il «vit des femmes». Celui-ci demande à Meursault de rédiger une lettre destinée à une femme qui l'a trompé. Le samedi suivant, Meursault se rend à la plage avec Marie. Au retour, ils assistent à une scène violente au cours de laquelle Raymond frappe sa maîtresse. La police étant intervenue, Meursault accepte de témoigner en faveur de Raymond ... Meursault et Marie vont passer le dimanche à la plage, avec Raymond. Deux Arabes les ont suivis. L'un est le frère de la femme que Raymond a maltraitée. Une dispute éclate: Raymond est blessé d'un coup de couteau. Un peu plus tard, par une chaleur accablante, il revient provoquer son agresseur. Meursault, qui lui, a pris son revolver par précaution, se retrouve seul face à l'Arabe. Aveuglé par le soleil et l'éclat du couteau que celui-ci a sorti de sa poche, il tire sur lui...
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Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

ISBN 0679781498 (0-679-78149-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Lullaby
by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN 0385722192 (0-385-72219-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The consequences of media saturation are the basis for an urban nightmare in Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk's darkly comic and often dazzling thriller. Assigned to write a series of feature articles investigating SIDS, troubled newspaper reporter Carl Streator begins to notice a pattern among the cases he encounters: each child was read the same poem prior to his or her death. His research and a tip from a necrophilic paramedic lead him to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who sells "distressed" (demonized) homes, assured of their instant turnover. Boyle and Streator have both lost children to "crib death," and she confirms Streator's suspicions: the poem is an ancient lullaby or "culling song" that is lethal if spoken--or even thought--in a victim's direction. The misanthropic Streator, now armed with a deadly and uncontrollably catchy tune, goes on a minor killing spree until he recognizes his crimes and the song's devastating potential. Lullaby then turns into something of a road trip narrative, with Streator, Boyle, her empty-headed Wiccan secretary Mona, and Mona's vigilante boyfriend Oyster setting out across the U.S. to track down and destroy all copies of the poem.
In his previous works, including the cult favorite Fight Club, Palahniuk has demonstrated a fondness for making statements about the condition of humanity, and he uses Lullaby like a blunt object to repeatedly overstate his generally dim view. Such dogmatic venom undermines the persuasiveness of his thesis about mass communication and free will, but thankfully, Palahniuk offers some respite here by allowing for sympathy and love, as well as through his razor-sharp humor, such as his mock listings for Helen's possessed properties: "six bedrooms, four baths, pine-paneled entryway, and blood running down the kitchen walls...." At such moments, Lullaby casts a powerful spell. --Ross Doll [via]
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Mas Alla Del Bien Y Del Mal
by Friedrich Nietzsche

ISBN 8471666146 (84-7166-614-6)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas

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For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including drama, fiction, poetry, and essays.

Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.

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Nana
by Chuk Palahniuk

ISBN 8497935136 (84-9793-513-6)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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The Outsider
by Albert Camus

ISBN 1857151399 (1-85715-139-9)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library Ltd

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Set in Camus'' native Algeria, this story cen tres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an ap parently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvment in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental value s of society ' [via]
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus

ISBN 1406711284 (1-4067-1128-4)
Softcover, Hesperides Pr

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Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. [via]
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The Stranger
by Chris Van Allsburg

ISBN 0395423317 (0-395-42331-7)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?
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Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN 0385498721 (0-385-49872-1)
Softcover, Anchor Books

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Some say that the apocalypse swiftly approacheth, but that simply ain't so according to Chuck Palahniuk. Oh no. It's already here, living in the head of the guy who just crossed the street in front of you, or maybe even closer than that. We saw these possibilities get played out in the author's bloodsporting-anarchist-yuppie shocker of a first novel, Fight Club. Now, in Survivor, his second and newest, the concern is more for the origin of the malaise. Starting at chapter 47 and screaming toward ground zero, Palahniuk hurls the reader back to the beginning in a breathless search for where it all went wrong. This time out, the author's protagonist is self-made, self-ruined mogul-messiah Tender Branson, the sole passenger of a jet moments away from slamming first into the Australian outback and then into oblivion. All that will be left, Branson assures us with a tone bordering on relief, is his life story, from its Amish-on-acid cult beginnings to its televangelist-huckster end. All of this courtesy of the plane's flight recorder.
Speaking of little black boxes, Skinnerians would have a field day with the presenting behavior of the folks who make up Palahniuk's world. They pretend they're suicide hotline operators for fun. They eat lobster before it's quite... done. They dance in morgues. The Cleavers they are not. Scary as they might be, these characters are ultimately more scared of themselves than you are, and that's what makes them so fascinating. In the wee hours and on lonely highways, they exist in a perpetual twilight, caught between the horror of the present and the dread of the unknown. With only two novels under his belt, Chuck Palahniuk is well on his way to becoming an expert at shining a light on these shadowy creatures. --Bob Michaels [via]
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Asfixia / Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk

ISBN 8439708262 (84-397-0826-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage. [via]
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Diario/ Diary: Una Novela/ a Novel
by Chuk Palahniuk

ISBN 849793637X (84-9793-637-X)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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El Extranjero
by Albert Camus

ISBN 8420636940 (84-206-3694-0)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Guía moral e intelectual de la generación llegada a la madurez entre las ruinas, la frustración y la desesperanza de la Europa de postguerra, Albert Camus (1913-1960) saltó a la fama con la publicación, en 1942, de EL EXTRANJERO. La novela -lúcida descripción de la carencia de valores del mundo contemporáneo- tiene como referencia omnipresente a Meursault, su protagonista, a quien una serie de circunstancias conduce a cometer un crimen aparentemente inmotivado; su muerte en el patíbulo no tendrá más sentido que su vida, corroída por la cotidianidad y gobernada por fuerzas anónimas que, al despojar a los hombres de la condición de sujetos autónomos, les eximen también de responsabilidad y de culpa. [via]
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Mas Alla Del Bien Y Del Mal
by Friedrich Nietzsche, Andres Sanchez Pascual

ISBN 8420633208 (84-206-3320-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Pese a los elementos tematicos que comparte con Asi hablo Zaratustra mismos completamente distinto. Entre una y otra obra hay, fundamentalmente, un reajuste de la mirada: el paso del simbolo al concepto, de la poesia a la psicologia, de la confianza a la sospecha, de la lejania que permite dejar de lado los defectos a la optica microscopica que pone de relieve las miserias. [via]
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Viaje Al Fin De LA Noche/ Voyage to the End of the Night
by Louis Ferdinand Celine, Carlos Manzano

ISBN 8435008932 (84-350-0893-2)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano

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Edicion en español [via]
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L' Etranger: Profil D'une Oeuvre
by Pierre Louis Rey

ISBN 2218740729 (2-218-74072-9)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc

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L ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le roman de Camus.
Le résumé détaillé est suivi de l étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles :
Sources et parentés de Camus
Meursault, un personnage de nouveau roman
Les autres personnages
Les principaux thèmes
Le sens du roman
L écriture de Camus.

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L Etranger
by Albert Camus, Ray Davison

ISBN 0415025869 (0-415-02586-9)
Softcover, Routledge

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Condamné à mort, Meursault. Sur une plage algérienne, il a tué un Arabe. À cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu'il faisait chaud. On n'en tirera rien d'autre. Rien ne le fera plus réagir : ni l'annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort de sa mère, ni les paroles du prêtre avant la fin. Comme si, sur cette plage, il avait soudain eu la révélation de l'universelle équivalence du tout et du rien. La conscience de n'être sur la terre qu'en sursis, d'une mort qui, quoi qu'il arrive, arrivera, sans espoir de salut. Et comment être autre chose qu'indifférent à tout après ça ?
Étranger sur la terre, étranger à lui-même, Meursault le bien nommé pose les questions qui deviendront un leitmotiv dans l'oeuvre de Camus. De La Peste à La Chute, mais aussi dans ses pièces et dans ses essais, celui qui allait devenir Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957 ne cessera de s'interroger sur le sens de l'existence. Sa mort violente en 1960 contribua quelque peu à rendre mythique ce maître à penser de toute une génération. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

ISBN 2070360288 (2-07-036028-8)
Softcover, Gallimard, Editions

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Roman picaresque, roman d'initiation, Voyage au bout de la nuit, signé Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Louis Destouches de son vrai nom, a été récompensé par le prix Renaudot en 1932. À la suite d'un défilé militaire, Ferdinand Bardamu s'engage dans un régiment. Plongé dans la Grande Guerre, il fait l'expérience de l'horreur et rencontre Robinson, qu'il retrouvera tout au long de ses aventures. Blessé, rapatrié, il vit le conflit depuis l'arrière, partagé entre les conquêtes féminines et les crises de folie. Réformé, il s'embarque pour l'Afrique, travaille dans une compagnie coloniale. Malade, il gagne les États-Unis, rencontre Molly, prostituée au grand cSur à Detroit tandis qu'il est ouvrier à la chaîne. De retour en France, médecin, installé dans un dispensaire de banlieue, il est confronté au tout-venant sordide de la misère, en même temps qu'il rencontre ici et là des êtres sublimes de générosité, de délicatesse infinie, "une gaieté pour l'univers"...
Epopée antimilitariste, anticolonialiste et anticapitaliste, somme de toutes les expériences de l'auteur, Voyage au bout de la nuit est peuplé de pauvres hères brinquebalés dans un monde où l'horreur le dispute à l'absurde. Mais, au bout de cette nuit, le voyage ne manque ni de drôlerie, ni de personnages fringants, de beautés féminines "en route pour l'infini". Texte essentiel de la littérature du XXe siècle, il est émaillé d'aphorismes cinglants, dynamité par des expressions familières, argotiques, et un éclatement de la syntaxe qui a fait la réputation de Céline. --Céline Darner [via]
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Jenseits Von Gut Und Bose
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ISBN 1406808318 (1-4068-0831-8)
Softcover, Echo Library

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gebundene Ausgabe [via]
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Jenseits Von Gut Und Bose: Vorspiel Einer Philosophie Der Zukunft
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Peter Putz

ISBN 3442075300 (3-442-07530-0)
Softcover, Goldmann

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Ottsy I Deti: Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

ISBN 5200005736 (5-200-00573-6)
Hardcover, Russkii iazyk

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