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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 (Immanuel Kant)
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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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 (James Joyce)
Ulysses
James Joyce
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Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
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Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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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 (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
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Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
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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 (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
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Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
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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 (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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Écrits (Jacques Lacan)
Écrits
Jacques Lacan
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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King Lear (William Shakespeare)
King Lear
William Shakespeare
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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 (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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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 (Sigmund Freud)
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
Homer
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A Thousand Plateaus
A Thousand Plateaus
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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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
39
Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
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