Books like A paixão segundo G.H.
12 books with a reading profile close to A paixão segundo G.H. by Clarice Lispector. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
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Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
The narrator meets Jacques Austerlitz in the waiting room of the Antwerp railway station in the 1960s, and the two begin to talk about architecture.
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The Book of Disquiet
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Published long after the author’s death, this fragmented prose collection serves as the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, one of Fernando Pessoa’s many heteronyms.
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Água Viva
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Água Viva functions as a sustained internal monologue delivered by an anonymous female painter who abandons representational art to pursue the instantaneous "now." The text rejects traditional narrative progression, ins…
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The Glass Bead Game
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Set in the future province of Castalia, the narrative follows Joseph Knecht as he rises to the rank of Magister Ludi within an elitist intellectual order.
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Infinite Jest
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Set in a near-future North America where years are named after corporate sponsors, the narrative centers on the Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House and the Enfield Tennis Academy.
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Immortality
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
A woman in her sixties waves goodbye to a lifeguard at a pool, and the gesture is enough to give Kundera's narrator the idea for Agnès, a character he follows through the whole book.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Milan Kundera's novel is composed of seven parts which are linked by themes of memory, forgetting and the exercise of power.
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Labyrinths is a compilation of Jorge Luis Borges’s short fiction, essays, and parables, characterized by mathematical puzzles and philosophical paradoxes.
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Selected Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Centering on the posthumous 1890 collection edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, this volume organizes Dickinson’s verse into four thematic categories: Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity.
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The Waves
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
The Waves follows six friends—Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis—from childhood through late adulthood.
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Foucault’s Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense
Three editors at a vanity publishing house in Milan—Belbo, Casaubon, and Diotallevi—invent a grand historical conspiracy to amuse themselves.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln visits a Georgetown cemetery to mourn his young son, Willie, who has just died of typhoid fever.
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