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    Cover of The world as I found it

    The world as I found it

    Bruce Duffy · 1987

    Fiction & LiteraturePhilosophy
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
    1recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2019–2022years
    50% recommend50% neutral

    Mentions per year

    2019202020212022

    What Hacker News says

    1. max-ibelDec 2022
      I found the book "The world as I found it" by Bruce Duffy to be a fairly good read on this subject.
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    2. vo2maxerDec 2019
      Some of the books in my 2020 to be read basket:

      Cultural Amnesia by Clive James

      Exhalation by Ted Chiang

      Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Maria Arana

      The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy

      Alice And Bob Meet The Wall Of Fire edited by Thomas Lin

      Masscult and Midcult by Dwight Macdonald

      Big Bang by David Bowman

      White Noise by Don DeLillo

      The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann

      A House for Mr. Biwas by V. S. Naipaul

      A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

      On The Abolition Of All Political Parties by Simone Weil

      Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz

      On Being The Right Size by J. B. S. Haldane

      Bela Tarr, The Time After by Jacques Ranciere

      La Vida Breve by Juan Carlos Onetti

      The Clown by Heinrich Boll

      Memoirs From Beyond The Grave by Francois-Rene De Chateubriand

      Blood Dark by Louis Guilloux

      The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling

      Cuentos Completos by Juan Carlos Onetti

      Balcony In The Forest by Julien Gracq

      Historia De España Contada Para Escépticos by Juan Eslava Galán

      Diez Lecciones Sobre Los Clásicos by Piero Boitani

      Waiting For The Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee

      97,196 Words by Emmanuel Carrere

      Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

      El Zafarrancho Aquel De Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda

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