Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Hermes (11 Lists)



Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman MelvilleAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansMurphy by Samuel BeckettAmsterdam Stories by NescioMonsieur Teste by Paul Valéry
Idlers
202 books — 24 voters
Against Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansPrince of Aesthetes by Philippe Jullian
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
242 books — 205 voters

Maurice Blanchot by Christophe BidentGeorges Bataille by Michel SuryaGeorges Bataille by Stuart KendallDerrida by Benoît Peeters
Biographies of Philosophers
152 books — 57 voters
H by Philippe Sollers
T is for Title
161 books — 44 voters

The Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot
Best World Philosophy Book
955 books — 1,428 voters
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Best Literary Mysteries
2,684 books — 5,095 voters

Death Sentence by Maurice Blanchot
Anti-novel
113 books — 73 voters
Petrolio by Pier Paolo PasoliniThe Confidence-Man by Herman MelvilleGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonFinnegans Wake by James JoyceBartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 584 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Metafiction
446 books — 583 voters