Absurdist

8 books

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Rating 3.9
Wisdom Tooth Zheng Yuanjie CITIC Press · 2016 Wisdom Tooth is a full-length work by Zheng Yuanjie in which he moved from fairy tales to absurdist fiction for adults. The protagonist is Liang Gongc…
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The Complete Novels of Kafka Franz Kafka People's Literature Publishing House · 2014 The Complete Novels of Kafka is a three-volume set and one of the most widely circulated collections of Kafka's fiction in the Chinese-speaking world.…
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Collected Plays of Friedrich Dürrenmatt Friedrich Dürrenmatt People's Literature Publishing House · 2019 Collected Plays of Friedrich Dürrenmatt is a Chinese selection of plays by the Swiss playwright and novelist Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), edited …
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Rating 4.6
The Metamorphosis: The Complete Novellas and Short Stories of Franz Kafka Franz Kafka / 文泽尔 Volumes Publishing Company · 2023 The Metamorphosis: The Complete Short Stories and Novellas of Franz Kafka gathers nearly 80 of Kafka's short stories and novellas, including such icon…
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Rating 4.7
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut / 虞建华 Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Billy is abducted by aliens and thus comes unstuck in time. He goes to b…
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Rating 4.2
The Collected Works of Süskind (5 Volumes) 帕·聚斯金德 / 李清华 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2021 This set includes five books: The Double Bass, Perfume, The Pigeon, Mr. Summer's Story, and On Love and Death. The Double Bass: One of the world's mos…
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Rating 4.6
The Castle Franz Kafka / 文泽尔 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2021 K. arrives at a village beneath the Castle as a land surveyor hired by the Castle. Seeking lodging for the night, he is coldly received because he lac…
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Rating 4.4
Little Zaches, Called Zinnober: A Fairy Tale Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …