# Houses

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- Book: [Houses](https://www.bookquiver.com/borislav-pekic/houses) ([Houses.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/borislav-pekic/houses.md))
- Authors: [Borislav Pekic](https://www.bookquiver.com/borislav-pekic), [Barry Schwabsky](https://www.bookquiver.com/barry-schwabsky), [Bernard Johnson](https://www.bookquiver.com/bernard-johnson)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-947-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-04-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it Fascism or Communism or capitalism, is always busy rebuilding, and Houses is a book about a man,...