Books like The Hour of the Star
12 books with a reading profile close to The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
J.D.
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2
Howl and Other Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Published in 1956, this collection centers on the title poem, a frantic catalog of mid-century American struggle.
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3
Ojos de perro azul
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
This collection of short stories documents the early development of Gabriel García Márquez’s narrative style before his shift into Macondo.
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Woyzeck
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Franz Woyzeck is a low-ranking soldier stationed in a provincial German town, struggling to provide for his common-law wife, Marie, and their infant son.
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Orlando
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The narrative follows Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman who begins as a favorite of the court and lives for over three centuries without aging significantly.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
The poem recounts a sailor’s harrowing sea voyage that spirals into disaster after he shoots an albatross without provocation.
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Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
William Lee, a drug addict and fugitive, flees a narcotics investigation in the United States to seek refuge in the Interzone, a hallucinatory territory located in North Africa.
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Amerika
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Karl Rossmann is a teenager banished by his parents to America after a scandal with a maid.
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Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Set in late nineteenth-century Kristiania, the narrative follows an unnamed, destitute writer struggling to maintain his dignity while starving.
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Clevinger's trial (from 'Catch-22')
Also deep and open-ended · classic literature, literary
Joseph Heller’s standalone play, Clevinger’s Trial, adapts the eighth chapter of his novel Catch-22 into a rhythmic, one-act script.
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Fugitive Pieces
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Jakob Beer is seven years old when he hides behind a wall and watches Nazi soldiers abduct his family in occupied Poland.
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Mysteries
by Knut Hamsun
Also deep and inward-looking · classic literature, literary
Johan Nilsen Nagel arrive unexpectedly in a coastal Norwegian village wearing a vibrant yellow suit, disrupting the local social order through erratic behavior and aggressive diatribes.
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