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The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,435,633 ratings — published 1942
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,553,666 ratings — published 1948
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,515,886 ratings — published 1943
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,868,146 ratings — published 1813
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,627,618 ratings — published 1945
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,102,718 ratings — published 1866
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,117,940 ratings — published 1967
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,955,936 ratings — published 1960
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.76 — 304,272 ratings — published 1759
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.87 — 955,765 ratings — published 1955
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,462,097 ratings — published 1915
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,624,361 ratings — published 1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.10 — 551,040 ratings — published 1984
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,983,540 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,915,019 ratings — published 1890
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.10 — 942,229 ratings — published 1878
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.02 — 319,986 ratings — published 1947
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.16 — 69,289 ratings — published 1913
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,869,053 ratings — published 1937
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,927,016 ratings — published 1951
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.04 — 563,315 ratings — published 1985
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,330,218 ratings — published 1952
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,350,118 ratings — published 1847
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.14 — 398,646 ratings — published 1980
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,470 ratings — published 1932
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.39 — 394,553 ratings — published 1880
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.17 — 369,248 ratings — published 1869
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.31 — 729,459 ratings — published 2001
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.26 — 178,550 ratings — published 1942
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.21 — 849,130 ratings — published 1862
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.08 — 887,826 ratings — published 1922
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 218,560 ratings — published 1927
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,187,843 ratings — published 1847
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.71 — 379,211 ratings — published 1856
Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,611 ratings — published 1885
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,099,509 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,882,201 ratings — published 1953
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.93 — 515,791 ratings — published -800
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,248,606 ratings — published 1963
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,232,658 ratings — published 1954
L'écume des jours (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,516 ratings — published 1947
Emma (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 995,134 ratings — published 1815
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,648,652 ratings — published 1965
Les liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 59,559 ratings — published 1782
Huis clos: suivi de Les Mouches (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.04 — 15,199 ratings — published 1946
La vie devant soi (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,228 ratings — published 1975
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,038,636 ratings — published 1844
Macbeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,031,594 ratings — published 1623
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as litterature)
avg rating 4.15 — 787,128 ratings — published 1817
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as litterature)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,610 ratings — published 1938
“Some arts move in time, like music; others are presented in space, like painting. In both cases the organizing principle is recurrence, which is called rhythm when it is temporal and pattern when it is spatial. Thus we speak of the rhythm of music and the pattern of painting; but later, to show off our sophistication, we may begin to speak of the rhythm of painting and the pattern of music. In other words, all arts may be conceived both temporally and spatially. The score of a musical composition may be studied all at once; a picture may be seen as the track of an intricate dance of the eye. Literature seems to be intermediate between music and painting: its words form rhythms which approach a musical sequence of sounds at one of its boundaries and form patterns which approach the hieroglyphic or pictorial image atthe other. The attempts to get as near to these boundaries as possible form the main body of what is called experimental writing. We may call the rhythm of literature the narrative, and the pattern, the simultaneous mental grasp of the verbal structure, the meaning or significance. We hear or listen to a narrative, but when we grasp a writer’s total pattern we “see” what he means.”
― The Archetypes of Literature
― The Archetypes of Literature
“Libère la lumière captive de tes mains
Peut-être ton souci se dissipera-t-il”
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Peut-être ton souci se dissipera-t-il”
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