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History Of Beauty by Umberto Eco reads as intellectual, academic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
On Ugliness
Umberto Eco · 2007
Shares the vornate thread
87% genome match
The geography of the imagination
Guy Davenport · 1981
Shares the vornate thread
71% genome match
Sexual Personae
Camille Paglia · 1990
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75% genome match
Essays
Roland Barthes · 1979
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag · 1966
Both explore art & aesthetics
76% genome match
Madness and Civilization
Michel Foucault · 1988
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Empirismo eretico
Pier Paolo Pasolini · 1972
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
Visions and revisions
Dale Peck · 2015
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69% genome match
Bread & wine
Samuel R. Delany · 1998
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69% genome match
Writing and Difference
Jacques Derrida · 1978
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69% genome match
A certain world
W. H. Auden · 1970
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69% genome match
Language and silence
George Steiner · 1967
Shares the vornate thread
69% genome match
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