- nibelungenlied by unknown, ~1200 ⚠
- The Nibelungenlied is based on an oral tradition of Germanic heroic legend that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries and that spread throughout almost all of Germanic-speaking Europe.
- translations i've read are margaret armour's (1961) and arthur thomas hatto's (1964).
- sarrasine by honore de balzac, 1830
- Ernest-Jean Sarrasine is the main protagonist of the story. The story is a narration of his falling in love with Zambinella.
- under the volcano by malcolm lowry, 1947
- The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the Mexican city of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in November 1938.
- love of seven dolls by paul gallico, 1954 ⚠
- In postwar Paris, Mouche, a young woman who has lost her job with a carnival, is persuaded not to commit suicide by the cheerful puppets of Captain Coq, a gruff puppeteer.
- love in amsterdam by nicolas freeling, 1962 ⚠
- Alluring, unstable, and frantically self-absorbed, Elsa de Charmoy was a dangerous woman, and now she's a dead one, shot with a gun bought by her former lover. Sulking in an Amsterdam jail, he swears it's been years since he saw Elsa, but Inspector Van der Valk isn't quite ready to be persuaded. Like Inspector Maigret (to whom he is often compared), Van der Valk tends to pick apart the details, ideally over a good meal. And while Van der Valk's ruminations may frustrate his more action-minded colleagues, they inevitably yield a surprising resolution.
- revenge of the lawn by richard brautigan, 1971
- A collection of 62 short stories written by the American author Richard Brautigan from 1962 to 1970. Like most of Brautigan's works, the stories are whimsical, simply themed, and often surreal
- most specifically, the short story pale marble movie that i drew a comic of :) and i was trying to describe you to someone
- knots by r.d. laing, 1972
- Originally published in 1970 , Knots consists of a series of dialogue-scenarios that can be read as poems or brief plays, each complete in itself. Each chapter describes a different kind of the "knots" of the bonds of love, dependency, uncertainty, jealousy. The dialogues could be those between lovers, between parents and children, between analysts and patients or all of these merged together.
- kiss of the spider woman by manuel puig, 1976
- Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell 7 each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.
- slow days, fast company: the world, the flesh, and l.a. by eve babitz, 1977
- Slow Days, Fast Company is a full-fledged and full-bodied evocation of a bygone Southern California that far exceeds its mash-note premise.
- scott pilgrim by bryan lee o'malley, 2004-2010 ⚠
- The series revolves around the titular Scott Pilgrim. . .He starts a tentative romance with American delivery girl Ramona Flowers, but. . .In order to date her in peace, Scott must. . .defeat her exes in combat. . .forcing both Scott and Ramona to come to terms with their respective pasts, relationships, and behaviors.
- omnicide: mania, fatality, and the future in-delirium by jason bahbak mohaghegh, 2019
- A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation. What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal conviction that everything must be annihilated?
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