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Symposium
Symposium is a dialogue by Plato, likely composed between 385 and 370 BCE, in which several Athenian guests at a banquet deliver speeches on the nature of love (eros). The participants include historical figures such as Agathon, Aristophanes, and Socrates. Socrates's speech recounts teachings attrib...
apps Top Symposium Alternatives
The top alternative to Symposium in 2026 is Labyrinths (Borges) with a score of 9.7/10, followed by Austerlitz (9.5) and The Drowned and the Saved (9.4).
Labyrinths (Borges)
Labyrinths is an English-language anthology of stories and essays by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published in 19...
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...
The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved is a nonfiction book first published in Italian in 1986. Drawing on Levi’s experi...
The Republic
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, composed around 375 BCE, that examines the nature of justice and the struc...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1886. It recounts the final illness and death o...
The Aleph
The Aleph is a short story collection by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1949. The title story na...
The Man Without Qualities
The Man Without Qualities is an unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published in installments beginning in...
In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time is a seven-volume novel by French writer Marcel Proust, published between 1913 and 1927. The work...
Phaedo
Phaedo is a dialogue by Plato that depicts the final hours of Socrates before his execution by hemlock poisoning in 399...
Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is a novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. Set primarily in Europe during the fi...
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet is a work by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, composed as a collection of fragmentary reflections...
The Unnamable
The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett, first published in French as L'Innommable and later translated into Eng...
Jesus' Son
Jesus' Son is a 1992 collection of linked short stories by American writer Denis Johnson. The book follows a recurring,...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical prose work by Friedrich Nietzsche, published in four parts between 1883 and 18...
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Six Characters in Search of an Author is a play by Italian writer Luigi Pirandello, first performed in 1921 in Rome. The...
Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children is a play by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, completed in 1939 and first performed in Z...
The Invention of Morel
The Invention of Morel is a 1940 novella by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares. Its narrator encounters a group of peo...
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play by Irish writer Samuel Beckett, first performed in 1958 at the Royal Court Theatre i...
Rameau's Nephew
Rameau's Nephew is a philosophical dialogue by French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot, composed between 1761 and 177...
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot's picaresque novel *Jacques the Fatalist* was written during the 1770s and 1780s, though not published unt...
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