 | A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust
Buy new: £23.95 / Used from: £19.99 No other novelist was so conscient that form is content as proust. The ruse of desire better than in lacan. The strategies of social distinction better drawn than in bourdieu.
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 | The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
Buy new: £6.92 / Used from: £5.72 Much before Zizek, pessoa describes the modern self as fully cartesian, but not as a unified, transcendental ego.
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 | A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
Buy new: £7.23 / Used from: £4.75 Against the stereotype that poetry is hypersubjectivezed feeling stands the poetry of pessoa.
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 | Selected Poems (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Paul Celan
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £5.65 And that of Paul Celan.
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 | The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
Buy new: £9.67 / Used from: £5.17 A gigantic work of fiction composed of several chapters who stand as precious philosofical essays in themselves.
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 | Ulysses (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
Buy used from: £1.50 Language as worldmaking. Using a mythic structure, joyce tried to encompass in a single narrative plot the whole of western culture.
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 | Trilogy: "Molloy", "Malone Dies", "Unnameable" (Calderbooks) by Samuel Beckett
Buy used from: £5.35 The novel, at last free of narrative.
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Better than in most history books, this novel tells of the embeddedness of individual lives in the larger forces of history. Critical theory at its best.
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 | Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Buy used from: £4.99 The most radical objectivist writing these days. Fiction that is decidedly non-narrative, more akin to poetry. The language is that of the epic mythmaking mode. One of the best novels in the world.
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 | Levantado del Suelo by Jose Saramago
Buy used from: £11.97 The best book by Saramago is not translated into english. The reinvention of the epic, in the sense of the brechtian epic theatre, in the setting of class struggle in southern Portugal.
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