The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius was written in the year 523/524. I read the translation by David Slavitts and published by Harvard University Press in 2008.
Other works mentioned:
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole https://youtu.be/G5sgOofnbJI
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
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