Books like Medea
12 books with a reading profile close to Medea by Euripides. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Wall
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Sartre's collection takes its name from the title story, set during the Spanish Civil War.
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2
No Exit
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
Set in a single room furnished with Second Empire sofas, the play follows three deceased individuals—Garcin, Inès, and Estelle—as they realize they are their own torturers.
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The Tartar Steppe
by Dino Buzzati
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Giovanni Drogo, a young officer, is posted to the Bastiani Fortress, an isolated outpost on the northern frontier overlooking a barren plain.
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Bartleby the Scrivener
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Set in a mid-nineteenth-century Wall Street law office, the story follows an elderly lawyer who hires a quiet copyist named Bartleby to manage an increasing workload.
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Waiting for the Barbarians
by J.M. Coetzee
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
A magistrate runs a small frontier town in an unnamed empire.
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7
Eugene Onegin
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse follows Eugene Onegin, a cynical aristocrat weary of Saint Petersburg’s high society.
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Poems by John Keats
by John Keats
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
John Keats’s debut collection, published in March 1817 rather than 1800, organizes lyrical meditations on the restorative capacity of the natural world and the permanence of classical mythology.
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One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Vitangelo Moscarda, a man of comfortable means who has inherited a bank from his father, is told by his wife that his nose is crooked.
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10
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gustav von Aschenbach, a disciplined German writer who has prioritized rigorous intellect over sensory pleasure, travels to Venice to escape a creative drought.
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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
A cynical protagonist, convinced that nothing in the universe possesses objective value, decides to commit suicide.
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In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
In Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," an explorer witnesses a brutal execution machine in a remote penal colony.
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