Situada en California, esta novela expone el descubrimiento del budismo y de la vida del sufrimiento. Est? escrita en la ?poca en la que el autor se sent?a un fracasado por no encontrar editor para sus libros. Presenta la forma de encarar el fracaso desde un punto de vista filos?fico, as? como la b?squeda del aut?ntico significado del Dharma por parte de j?venes desarrapados y febriles. Expresa la comuni?n con la naturalesza en la cumbre de las monta?as, la fraternidad y la poes?a, todo ello entre org?as, marihuana y alcohol, ...
"Lot nad kuku?czym gniazdem" to jedna z najg?o?niejszych i najszerzej w ?wiecie znanych powie?ci ameryka?skich drugiej po?owy XX wieku. Ukazuje brutalne d?awienie indywidualno?ci na przyk?adzie zamkni?tego zak?adu psychiatrycznego, w kt?rym pacjent?w odziera si? z resztek wolno?ci i godno?ci osobistej. Powie?? stanowi wnikliw? analiz? psychologiczn? szale?stwa zbiorowo?ci.Ksi??ka Keseya wstrz?sn??a opini? ameryka?sk?, a przyby?y w tym czasie do USA, zrewoltowany przeciw w?adzy komunistycznej czeski re?yser Milosz Forman nakr?ci? na jej podstawie film ze s?ynn? kreacj? Jacka Nicholsona. Film ten przyda? s?awy powie?ci (podobnie jak jej adaptacja teatralna), uwypuklaj?c metaforyczn?, antytotalitarn? wymow?. W krajach ?wczesnego bloku sowieckiego przyj?to go szczeg?lnie ?ywo, jako czyteln? aluzj? do sowieckich "psychuszek", w kt?rych osadzano i prze?ladowano opozycjonist?w.
From an internationally acclaimed Czech writer comes a shrewd, humane, and poignant novel, set in Prague before the Velvet Revolution, whose perceptions about love, conscience, and betrayal cut to the bone of life in both totalitarian and democratic societies. "A chilling story from the underground."-The New York Times.
A Haitian TriptychAn omnibus of novelsAvailable in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet's stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-Myriam R?jouis and Val Vinokur, Love, Anger, Madness is a scathing response to the struggles of race, class, and sex that have ruled Haiti. Suppressed upon its initial publication in 1968, this major work became an underground classic and was finally released in an authorized edition in France in 2005.In Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet offers three slices of life under an oppressive regime. Gradually building ...
Вы помните, «КАК ВСЕ БЫЛО»?Помните «любовный треугольник», связавший тихоню-яппи, талантливого неудачника и средней руки художницу-реставратора в удивительную, саркастическую «современную комедию нравов»?Варианта «жили они счастливо и умерли в один день» тут не получается по определению!А что, собственно, получается?«Любовь и так далее»!Роман, о котором лучше всего сказали в «Таймс»: «Потрясающе смешная книга. Умная. И трогательная!»Вудхауз? Вуди Аллен?Нет – Джулиан Барнс в лучшей своей форме!
'[A] giant of modern Chinese literature' – The New York Times"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere." – Ang LeeEileen Chang is one of the great writers of ...
'[A] giant of modern Chinese literature' – The New York Times"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect that divide, just as her heroines often disappeared inside it. She is the fallen angel of Chinese literature, and now, with these excellent new translations, English readers can discover why she is so revered by Chinese readers everywhere." – Ang LeeEileen Chang is one of the great writers of ...
The brothers are back – the latest installment in J. R. Ward's sizzling #1New York Times bestselling series.J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood novels have introduced readers to a 'different, creative, dark, violent, and flat-out amazing' (All About Romance)world. Now, as the vampire warriors defend their race against their slayers, one male's loyalty to the Brotherhood will be tested – and his dangerous mixed blood revealed.Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood – even though his sister is married to a member, for he harbors a deadly secret that could make him a huge liability in their war against the lessers. As plots within and outside of the Brotherhood threaten to reveal the truth about Rehvenge, he turns to the only source of light in his darkening world, Ehlena, a vampire untouched by the corruption that has its hold on him – and the only thing standing between him and eternal destruction.
As Primale of the Chosen, the fiercely loyal Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of his race. But his first mate, the Chosen Cormia, wants not only his body but his heart for herself. As tragedy looms over the Brotherhood's mansion, Phury must decide between duty and love.
The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that does not include her…
…В эркере – как на носу корабля, но без качки. В этом его безусловное преимущество. Из открытой форточки легкий сквознячок с запахом свежей травы: вчера подстригали газон. Триста лет подстригали изо дня в день. На этом зацикливаться не надо – собьешься с толку… Начнешь думать, как и чем это делали в семнадцатом веке, а оно тебе нужно? Нужен тебе семнадцатый век? То-то… Тут ведь главное другое – фантомное чувство, чувство от несуществующего! О! На него такое можно нагромоздить, что бедному газону и не снилось....
Популярная писательница Катерина Шпиллер, в пух и прах разбившая миф о добрых любящих родителях, автор бестселлера «Мама, не читай!», снова вытаскивает на поверхность то, о чем все молчат. Отношения между мужчинами и женщинами. В книге Катерины не будет сглаженных углов и набивших оскомину советов про компромиссы. Увы, в жизни все не так. Книга полностью основана на реальных событиях, имена героев не изменены. Страсть, любовь, измены, предательства, разводы.
Green remains a dim figure for many Americans. He stopped writing in 1952, at age 47, with just nine novels and a memoir behind him. In the last years of his life-he died in 1973-he became a kind of British Thomas Pynchon, agreeing to be photographed only from behind. But those who knew him often revered him. W. H. Auden called him the finest living English novelist. His real name was Henry Vincent Yorke. The son of a wealthy Birmingham industrialist, he was educated at Eton and Oxford but never completed his degree. He became managing director of the family factory, ...
Ambientada en una Barcelona de claroscuros y contrastes, ?ltimas tardes con Teresa narra los amores de Pijoaparte, t?pico exponente de las clases m?s bajas marginadas cuya mayor aspiraci?n es alcanzar prestigio social, y Teresa, una bella muchacha rubia, estudiante e hija de la alta burgues?a catalana. Los personajes de esta novela a la vez rom?ntica y sarc?stica pertenecen ya, por derecho propio, a la galer?a de retratos que configuran toda una ?poca. Hito de la literatura espa?ola contempor?nea, esta obra consolid? internacionalmente el nombre de su autor…
