Books like The Tartar Steppe
12 books with a reading profile close to The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
In Algiers, a clerk named Meursault receives news of his mother’s death and attends her funeral with complete emotional detachment.
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Waiting for the Barbarians
by J.M. Coetzee
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, literary
A magistrate runs a small frontier town in an unnamed empire.
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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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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 Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman and his family’s sole financial provider, wakes up one morning to find he has become a giant, literal insect.
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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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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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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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Songs of innocence and of experience
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
William Blake’s hand-colored collection contrasts two differing states of the human soul.
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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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