VALIS
Philip K. Dick, 1981
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)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1972
The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder, 1990
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway, 1952
Naked Lunch
William Burroughs, 1959
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl, 1946
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann, 1924
Lord of the Flies
William Golding, 1954
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman, 1855
Dream Story
Arthur Schnitzler, 1926
Cosmos
Carl Sagan, 1980
Catch 22
Joseph Heller, 1961
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut, 1963
The Castle
Franz Kafka, 1926
20 Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda, 1924
