In this book review. Felix reviews "The Woman in the Dunes" by Kobo Abe, "Either/Or: A Fragment of Life" by Soren Kierkegaard, "The Book of Disquiet" by Fernando Pessoa, "The House of the Dead" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, and "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.