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Fiction

Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

1932 · 453 pages

Celine's narrator carries his disgust from the First World War to colonial Africa, a Ford assembly line in Detroit, and a Paris suburb. He dragged spoken French into literature and made loathing exhilarating.

★ 8.0

Nonfiction · Philosophy

The World as Will and Representation

Arthur Schopenhauer

1859 · 694 pages

Underneath everything we perceive, Schopenhauer argues, runs a blind will that wants without knowing why. Because wanting never finishes, living is suffering, and only art and music briefly suspend it.

★ 7.1

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Journey to the End of the Night

The World as Will and Representation