20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda, 1924
HYPSEUSΥΨΕΝΣ
A curated selection of sublime works
Sublimity refers to a certain type of elevated language that strikes its listener with the mighty and irresistible power of a thunderbolt. A sublime passage can be heard again and again with equal pleasure.— Longinus - Περὶ ὕψους (On the Sublime)
The Castle
Franz Kafka, 1926
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut, 1963
Catch 22
Joseph Heller, 1961
Cosmos
Carl Sagan, 1980
Dream Story
Arthur Schnitzler, 1926
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, 1855
Lord of the Flies
William Golding, 1954
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann, 1924
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, 1946
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs, 1959
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder, 1990
Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
VALIS
Philip K. Dick, 1981
