Fiction by Philosophers
Explore captivating fiction books written by philosophers. Discover thought-provoking novels and stories that blend deep philosophical insights with imaginative storytelling.
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The Good Apprentice
by Iris Murdoch
Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a …
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Adolphe
by Benjamin Constant
Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, …
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Julie, Or, The New Heloise
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A novel in which Rousseau reconceptualized the relationship of the individual to the collective and articulated a new moral paradigm
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Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
by Denis Diderot
'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a …
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
Presents Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist novel, first published in 1938, in which Antoine Roquentin, a French writer, chronicles his reactions to the world and people around …
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The Mandarins
by Simone de Beauvoir
In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. …
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The Samurai
by Julia Kristeva
Passionate and promiscuous intellectual warriors - the "samurai" for whom "writing is the only lasting act of pleasure and war combined." Readers will instantly recognize …
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Omensetter's Luck
by William H. Gass
"The most important work of fiction by an American in this literary generation." -The New Republic Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, Omensetter's …
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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
In 1327, finding his sensitive mission at an Italian abbey further complicated by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William of Baskerville turns detective.
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The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat
by Steven Lukes
By turns witty and profound, The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a novel in the spirit of Gulliver's Travels or Animal Farm. Telling the …
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Roberte Ce Soir
by Pierre Klossowski
Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary Frech fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of …
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Glas
by Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida is probably the most famous European philosopher alive today. The University of Nebraska Press makes available for the first English translation of his …
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Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
An aging Bolshevik falls victim to the revolutionary dictatorship he has helped create.
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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes
by Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist, essayist, and playwright, was one of the most important Polish writers of the twentieth century. A candidate for the Nobel Prize …
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Tower of Babel
by Elias Canetti
Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert …
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The author uses the ancient Persian religious leader, Zarathustra (or Zoroaster) to voice his own views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the …
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The Penguin Complete Father Brown
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular way of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's …
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Death Sentence
by Maurice Blanchot
A man finds himself witnessing the death of a young female friend. Years later, he is overcome by the suspicion that his current lover is …
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From the Book to the Book
by Edmond Jabès
"The texts that Edmond Jabes has assembled here span seventeen books and the years between 1943 and 1985. They form a carefully composed jo.
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The Gray Book
by Aris Fioretos
Generally considered the least lively and most bleak of casts, gray is the taint of vagueness and uncertainty. Marking the threshold region where luminous life …
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Parables of Kierkegaard
by Søren Kierkegaard
The mind of Kierkegaard has been kept alive in the common memory more by his parables than any other part of his authorship. Like all …