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Really, Really Difficult Books

"List here those books that you found difficult even to apprehend, let alone comprehend."
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The Phenomenology of Spirit (Georg Hegel)
The Phenomenology of Spirit (Georg Hegel)
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Being and Time
Being and Time
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
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Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Pure Reason
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Cantos
Cantos
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari)
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Ulysses
Ulysses
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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow
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Faust
Faust
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The World as Will and Representation (Arthur Schopenhauer)
The World as Will and Representation (Arthur Schopenhauer)
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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
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Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom!
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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Of Grammatology
Of Grammatology
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Society of the Spectacle
Society of the Spectacle
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The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities
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Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
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The Divine Comedy (Dante)
The Divine Comedy (Dante)
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Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
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21
Écrits (Jacques Lacan)
Écrits (Jacques Lacan)
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
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Being and Nothingness
Being and Nothingness
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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War and Peace
War and Peace
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King Lear
King Lear
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse
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Moby Dick, Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
Moby Dick, Or, the Whale by Herman Melville
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The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
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A Thousand Plateaus
A Thousand Plateaus
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Difference and Repetition (Gilles Deleuze)
Difference and Repetition (Gilles Deleuze)
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
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Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
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