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Just read Lolita, I want something similarly short. Give recommendations. No philosophy.

>> No.18269681

THE STRANGER

>> No.18269682

>>18269669
The Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric

>> No.18269689

Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Tortilla Flats - John Steinbeck
Breakfast at Tiffanys - Truman Capote
Nemesis - Philip Roth
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

>> No.18269695

>>18269681
I liked this one
>>18269682
I will download this and see. I have not read much Russian works, mostly French and German.
>>18269689
maybe

>> No.18269880

The Picture of Dorian Gray is almost objectively the best novel ever written that's under 200 pages.

>> No.18269918

Horror’s Call if you want mindfuck schizo books.

>> No.18269931

>>18269669
A month in the country
One Day in The Life on Ivan Denosovich

>> No.18269939

>>18269681
That one sucks

>> No.18269996

>>18269880
I liked the second paragraph of the preface, which it wont let me copy. The gays have a lot of good opinions, it is a shame about the child rape.

>> No.18270012

>>18269996
You mean this?
>The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

>> No.18270017

>>18270012
thats the second sentence, I said paragraph

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>>18269669

>> No.18270295

The Tartar Steppe, Notes from the Underground, The Blind Owl, Siddhartha, Heart of Darkness

>> No.18270425
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Most Mishima

>> No.18270557

>>18269669
The Three-Cornered World by Natsume Sōseki

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The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

>> No.18271189

>>18269695
Andric isn't Russian, he was Yugoslavian. But anyway, I highly recommend it.

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>> No.18271223

>>18270564
I bought that book recently. I got just past the framing narrative at the start and misplaced it (I found a silverfish in my library and moved around and stored a lot of books). Is it worth digging out?

>> No.18271570

>>18269669
The Necrophiliac is pretty similar to Lolita in that it's pretty dark. It's about a Necrophiliac, obviously and the novella is like a diary chronicling his life. The prose is good.

>> No.18271627

>>18271570
seconding anything by Wittkop. she's brilliant.

>> No.18271764

>>18269669
invisible cities by calvino

>> No.18272185

>>18271223
yes. greatest work of horror

>> No.18272249

The Trial by Kafka

>> No.18272304

Most Japanese classics