Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.

Mrs. Dalloway
To the Lighthouse
Ulysses
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Great Gatsby
Dubliners
The Sound and the Fury
Orlando
As I Lay Dying
The Waves
Heart of Darkness
The Sun Also Rises
The Metamorphosis
The Trial
The Waste Land
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Com... by MultatuliDe donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik HermansThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Discovery of Heaven by Harry MulischNooit meer slapen by Willem Frederik Hermans
Dutch Literary Canon
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The Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotPhaedrus by PlatoThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
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Brev till en tysk vän by Albert CamusEn annans ansikte by Kōbō AbeHalv elva en sommarkväll by Marguerite DurasMannen som kunde gå genom väggar by Marcel AyméFarväl till Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Lind & Co's serie NITTONHUNDRA:
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Brutalist Britain by Elain HarwoodRedefining Brutalism by Simon HenleyBrutalism by Alexander ClementChinese Brutalism Today by Alberto BolognaThe Art of Brutalism by Ben Highmore
Brutalist Architecture
61 books — 1 voter

The Diary of a Smut-Hound by Hugh WakemViolations of the Child Marilyn Monroe by Her Psychiatrist FriendThe crippled giant; by Milton HindusA Young Man About to Commit Suicide by Anthony GudaitisThe Woman Who Was Pope by Clement Wood
Samuel Roth
33 books — 1 voter
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
961 books — 570 voters

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

H.D.
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

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