Discipline and Punish vs Immortality: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Discipline and Punish Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault · 1975 ★★★★☆ 4.1 333 pages · ≈ 6 h 10 m · Challenging
“On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide condemmed 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris', where he was to be 'taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing but a a shirt, holding a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds'; then, 'in the said cart, to the place de Greve, where, on a scaffold that will be erected there, the flesh will be torn from his breasts, arms,”

English version of "Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison"

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Cover of Immortality Immortality Milan Kundera · 1992 ★★★★☆ 4.1 Moderate

New York Times Bestseller"Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last." — Cleveland Plain DealerMilan Kundera's sixth…

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Discipline and PunishImmortality
Hardcover 4.2 (62) 4.1 (49)
Google Books — 5.0 (2)
Apple Books 4.0 (24) —

Reception

Discipline and PunishImmortality
Ratings 62 49
Editions 30 3
Film adaptations 1 1
Wikipedia attention 6210 1071
Pages 333 —

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