Books like Livro do Desassossego
12 books with a reading profile close to Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding 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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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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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 Unconsoled
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Ryder, a world-famous pianist, arrives in an unnamed European city to give a performance that the local citizens believe will solve their collective social crises.
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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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Mrs. Dalloway
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Clarissa Dalloway spends a June Wednesday in 1925 London purchasing flowers and preparing her home for an evening gala.
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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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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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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
David Foster Wallace's collection of stories is made up of a series of interviews with men whose answers are given but not the questions.
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The Magus
by John Fowles
Also deep and inward-looking · dense, psychology
Nicholas Urfe, a restless British schoolteacher, takes a job on the remote Greek island of Phraxos to escape a stagnant life in London.
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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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Crime and Punishment
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute former student living in a cramped St.
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