Books like The Brothers Karamazov
12 books with a reading profile close to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a demanding read.
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Duineser Elegien
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
The ten elegies bridge the divide between flawed human mortality and the terrifying perfection of the Angel.
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Faust
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Heinrich Faust is a scholar who has mastered philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, yet remains dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Zarathustra, a mountain-dwelling recluse, descends to humanity to announce that God is dead, leaving a moral vacuum that individuals must fill themselves.
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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Hans Castorp, a young engineer, visits his cousin at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, intending to stay for three weeks.
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Zarathustra, a prophet who has spent a decade in mountain solitude, descends to the valley to share his realizations with humanity.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Zarathustra, a mountain-dwelling hermit, descends to civilization to announce the death of God and the emergence of the Ubermensch.
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Demons
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
In nineteenth-century Russia, a small provincial town becomes the staging ground for a revolutionary cell led by the manipulative Pyotr Verkhovensky.
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Collected Fictions
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
This volume brings together Borges's short fiction in English, including A Universal History of Infamy, Ficciones, The Aleph, Doctor Brodie's Report and The Book of Sand.
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The Castle
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
A land surveyor named K arrives in a frozen village, claiming he was summoned by the authorities of the nearby castle.
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Faust, First Part
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
Heinrich Faust, a disenchanted scholar, abandons traditional medicine, theology, and philosophy after realizing that intellectual mastery has failed to reveal the secrets of the universe.
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The Symposium
by Plato
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, dense
Set in a celebratory banquet at the house of Agathon, this dialogue presents seven distinct speeches regarding the nature of Eros.
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The Complete Stories
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, dense
This volume gathers the short stories Franz Kafka wrote and published during his lifetime, plus other pieces released after his death.
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