Books like Água Viva
12 books with a reading profile close to Água Viva by Clarice Lispector. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Time Shelter
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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The Street of Crocodiles
by Bruno Schulz
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, literary
In a fictionalized version of the Polish city Drogobych, a narrator recounts his childhood centered on his father’s eccentric decline.
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
On a typical morning, bank official Josef K.
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