Thinkers that Rock
Discover essential reads for deep thinkers. Explore classic fiction by Kafka, Fitzgerald, and Borges, plus Bataille's Erotism. A curated book list for the philosophically minded.
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Erotism
by Georges Bataille
Reprint. Originally published: Death and sensuality. New York: Walker, 1962.
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Play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument until the fingers begin to bleed a bit
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Ficciones. C Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Kerrigan
by Jorge Luis Borges
Seventeen short stories.
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The Great Gatsby
by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Tells the tragic love story of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.