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Do we really have to have yet another Nobel Prize winner in Literature that nobody has heard of, and I don't want to read, because his work "is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess"? Is it too much to ask that they consider writers like Wendell Berry, Mark Helprin, Marilynne Robinson, Claire Keegan, Haruki Murakami? It seems like obscurity is an essential quality to win this thing.

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	Movements of Thought: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Diary, 1930–1932 and 1936–1937 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, James C. Klagge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alfred Nordmann (editor and translator) 3.91 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simply Wittgenstein 4.13 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, James C. Klagge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alfred Nordmann (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wittgenstein in Exile 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Philosophica I: Philosophie (TS 213, Sections 86-93), suivi de Georges Edward Moore, Les cours de Wittgenstein en 1930-1933 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, James C. Klagge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alfred Nordmann (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1997 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Public and Private Occasions by Ludwig Wittgenstein, James C. Klagge (Goodreads Author) (editor), Alfred Nordmann (editor) 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tractatus in Context 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Supplementary Vol 1992: Methods of Interpreting Plato & his Dialogues by James C. Klagge (Goodreads Author) (editor), Nicholas D. Smith (Editor), Julia Annas (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Sensitive Person

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Expeditions to Kafka: Selected Essays

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