Trilogie autorových antirománů je poeticko-filozofickou úvahou o smyslu života. Trilogie Molloy, Malone umírá a Nepojmenovatelný má v Beckettově prozaickém díle stejně zásadní postavení jako Čekání na Godota či Konec hry v jeho díle určeném pro divadelní scénu. Radikální "antirománová" forma, spojená s rozpadem vypravěčského vědomí a stále vyhrocenější anonymitou, se jedinečným způsobem pojí se skeptickým a černým humorem. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.
In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.
Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk mother in a shack full of junk, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers and prophets, incest and ignorance. When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both. . . Compelling and astonishing in its baroque richness, Nick Cave's acclaimed first novel is a fantastic journey into the twisted world of Deep Southern Gothic tragedy.
Michael Havelock watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was gunned down by his own agency. There's nothing left for him but to get out, quit the game. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railway platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. She's alive - and suddenly Havelock is a marked man, on the run from both US and Russian assassins. Racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist - Parsifal...
Vol. 1, Àll the pretty horses'. When BIlly and his family come to New Mexico in the 1930s, he becomes obsessed with a wolf whose existence is threatened by ranchers.
Nella difficile America della fine degli anni Quaranta, John Grady Cole, un ragazzo texano pieno di aspirazioni e di insoddisfazioni, lascia la sua famiglia e si avvia a cavallo, insieme all'amico Rawlins, sull'antica pista che conduce in Messico, nel nebuloso intento di ritrovare, rivivendo a modo suo l'epopea del Far West, le sue dubbie e precarie radici. Come veri cowboys, i due giovani attraversano lentamente, di bivacco in bivacco, di incontro in incontro, l'immenso territorio, alimentando strada facendo la comune speranza di garantirsi una vita migliore. Il sogno sembra coronarsi con l'arrivo nei monti del Messico, dove l'asprezza del paesaggio si circonfonde del calore vitale e della sensualità degli abitanti, fino a rappresentare in tutto e per tutto l'immagine di un Eden finalmente a portata di mano. Ma ben presto alle aure del mito subentrerà la spietatezza di una realtà che non ammette intrusioni: quel paradiso è appannaggio esclusivo di chi ci è nato e ci ha sofferto, e ai due ragazzi non resterà che tornare indietro, in un brusco congedo dai loro sogni e dalla loro gioventù.
Роман классика японской литературы посвящен реальным историческим событиям XVI века, когда в Японии шла жестокая борьба за власть между разрозненными самурайскими кланами. В центре романа – жизнь легендарного воина Тоётоми Хидэёси, прошедшего путь от сына простого крестьянина до военного правителя Японии. Сам император пожаловал ему высший придворный титул – тайко. Хидэёси, став самураем, провел лучшие годы жизни в бесконечных сражениях, совершенствуя военное мастерство, и в конце концов объединил отдельные княжества и укрепил свое владычество над страной. Его щедрое покровительство наукам и искусствам на закате дней привело к возникновению феномена, названного впоследствии японским Возрождением.Роман Э. Ёсикавы полностью вписывается в традиции японской литературы.
Questo romanzo è la storia di un amore - quello tra Michael e Leslie - così profondo e appassionato da superare gli ostacoli e i pregiudizi che lo minacciano: perché Michael è un giovane rabbino, nato e cresciuto nel cuore della New York ebraica, e Leslie è la figlia di un pastore protestante, ed entrambi vivono in ambienti in cui ebrei e cristiani non hanno molte occasioni di innamorarsi, e ancor meno di sposarsi tra loro.
