Books like Zeno's Conscience
12 books with a reading profile close to Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Double
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The story follows Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a socially insecure titular councillor in Saint Petersburg whose fragile mental state shatters when he encounters a man identical to himself.
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2
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Middle-aged history professor George and his wife Martha return home after a campus party and invite a younger couple, Nick and Honey, for late-night drinks.
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Nine Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Nine Stories centers on the Glass family and other urban protagonists navigating mid-century American life.
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Confessions of a Mask
by Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The novel chronicles the internal struggles of its narrator, Kochan, as he navigates his adolescence and young adulthood in post-war Japan.
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5
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set on a Mississippi Delta cotton estate, the narrative centers on the Pollitt family during Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday.
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The Woman Destroyed
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
This collection consists of three long-form stories centered on the psychological and social erosion of aging women in 1960s France.
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Oblomov
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a young Russian nobleman who lives in a state of terminal inertia within his dusty St.
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Passing
by Nella Larsen, Matthew Hodgson
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in 1920s Harlem and Chicago, the narrative follows the unexpected reunion of two childhood friends, Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry.
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Kokoro
by Natsume Sōseki, Edwin McClellan
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
The narrative centers on a university student in Tokyo who befriends an older, cynical intellectual he calls Sensei.
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10
The Meek One
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
A middle-aged pawnbroker ponders the corpse of his young wife, who has just committed suicide by jumping from their window while holding an icon.
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Othello
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In seventeenth-century Venice and Cyprus, a high-ranking Moorish general named Othello secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of a nobleman.
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
One August day in 1912, the Tyrone family gathers at their summer home in Connecticut.
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