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Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 408 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.78 — 352,733 ratings — published 1925
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.81 — 212,753 ratings — published 1927
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.76 — 137,166 ratings — published 1922
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.64 — 163,241 ratings — published 1916
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,847,387 ratings — published 1925
Dubliners (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.84 — 174,235 ratings — published 1914
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.86 — 194,975 ratings — published 1929
Orlando (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.87 — 113,585 ratings — published 1928
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.72 — 185,716 ratings — published 1930
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.43 — 554,667 ratings — published 1899
The Waves (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.14 — 52,925 ratings — published 1931
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.79 — 490,400 ratings — published 1926
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,396,627 ratings — published 1915
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.94 — 389,523 ratings — published 1925
The Waste Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.11 — 58,805 ratings — published 1922
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.16 — 67,811 ratings — published 1913
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.22 — 256,137 ratings — published 1929
Nightwood (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,628 ratings — published 1936
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.84 — 220,746 ratings — published 1951
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.22 — 73,370 ratings — published 1922
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.82 — 351,047 ratings — published 1929
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,297,242 ratings — published 1952
The Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,546 ratings — published 1926
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,758 ratings — published 1936
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.94 — 66,399 ratings — published 1932
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.99 — 316,198 ratings — published 1940
Jacob's Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.52 — 13,452 ratings — published 1922
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,372,292 ratings — published 1942
Sons and Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.64 — 55,643 ratings — published 1913
Howards End (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.96 — 94,475 ratings — published 1910
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.68 — 13,568 ratings — published 1939
Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.04 — 64,221 ratings — published 1890
The Magic Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,716 ratings — published 1924
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.67 — 28,610 ratings — published 1915
The Voyage Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.75 — 12,178 ratings — published 1915
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.77 — 148,898 ratings — published 1934
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.50 — 136,999 ratings — published 1928
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.67 — 85,491 ratings — published 1924
Steppenwolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.13 — 212,883 ratings — published 1927
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.39 — 17,637 ratings — published 1919
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.87 — 937,203 ratings — published 1955
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,804,968 ratings — published 1937
Good Morning, Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,526 ratings — published 1939
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,380,348 ratings — published 1949
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.39 — 37,141 ratings — published 1982
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.89 — 200,631 ratings — published 1908
Between the Acts (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,879 ratings — published 1941
A Moveable Feast (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.02 — 165,889 ratings — published 1964
The Guermantes Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as modernism)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,778 ratings — published 1920
Women in Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as modernism)
avg rating 3.66 — 33,390 ratings — published 1920
“What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth century? In stupefaction Ulrich watches the demonstrators from the window; as they reach the foot of the palace, their faces turn up, turn furious, the men brandish their walking sticks, but “a few steps farther, at a bend where the demonstration seemed to scatter into the wings, most of them were already dropping their greasepaint: it would be absurd to keep up the menacing looks where there were no more spectators.” In the light of that metaphor, the demonstrators are not men in a rage; they are actors performing rage! As soon as the performance is over they are quick to drop their greasepaint! Later, in the 1960s, philosophers would talk about the modern world in which everything had turned into spectacle: demonstrations, wars, and even love; through this “quick and sagacious penetration” (Fielding), Musil had already long ago discerned the “society of spectacle.”
― The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
― The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
“We, that is, the traditionalists like myself, use the term ‘‘modernism’’ not in a vague way as characterizing just things that happen to be around today, but as a particular way of looking at the world, a worldview that began in the Renaissance in the West with such components as Renaissance humanism, rationalism, et cetera. As I have mentioned already, modernism rejects the primacy of absolute and ultimate truth transcending the human order and descend- ing upon the human realm from the Divine Order. It places man himself at the center of the stage as ‘‘the absolute.’’ In a sense it absolutizes the human being in his or her earthly reality. Usually it does not come out and say so explicitly, but that is what it really means; that is, it takes the absolute away from God and puts it on the human plane, and therefore makes human reason, human perceptions, human interests the criteria of reality, of knowledge, of the truth, of the goal of human life. Therefore, as a consequence it substitutes the significance of the temporal and the transient for the abiding and the eternal.”
― در جستوجوی امر قدسی
― در جستوجوی امر قدسی
