Imagined by one ofthe world's leading experts on Freud, this fictionalized conversationpresents the essential biography of the father of psychoanalysis
Thomas D. M. Libri
D.M. Thomas possiede una notevole capacità di addentrarsi nelle profondità della psiche umana, esplorando temi complessi con straordinaria sensibilità. Le sue narrazioni spesso affrontano temi come l'identità, la memoria e la natura della realtà, il tutto reso in uno stile letterario distintivo che è allo stesso tempo poetico e incisivo. Attraverso un linguaggio accuratamente scelto e metafore potenti, trascina i lettori in viaggi profondamente introspettivi che risuonano a lungo dopo l'ultima pagina. Il contributo di Thomas alla letteratura risiede nella sua prospettiva unica e nel suo magistrale dominio della prosa, che lo rendono un narratore veramente significativo.
Bleak Hotel
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The story goes that it was Barbra Streisand who started it off ... Someone remarked to her at a party that she ought to look for an intelligent, demanding role, and suggested The White Hotel ... Bernardo Bertolucci told me, years later, Streisand had invited him to her Hollywood mansion to discuss the film over dinner. Gold dinner service - butler - the works. She said, Bernardo, there's just one thing bothering how are we going to deal with all the sex' Well, Barbra, I have this idea for glass fibre optics to enter the woman's vagina.' A moment's silence, Let me show you the house.' And she never spoke of The White Hotel to him again. Chronicling the futile and relentless attempt to translate his iconic novel, The White Hotel (1981) into a Hollywood movie, Bleak Hotel is a gripping story of frustration, hope and ultimately, of indifference to both the machinations of the film industry, and the legal maelstrom that surrounds it. More big names have been attached to the making of this non-movie than any glittering, cameo-littered outing in Hollywood's history, from its greatest producers and directors to Hollywood's brightest stars and starlets and still the film remains in the imagination. His account is interwoven with colourful and moving tales of his personal life, involving tangled love relationships and the pain of bereavement.
When Thomas Longois Lefoy is sent to Tangiers to investigate a German plot involving Moroccan phosphates, he uncovers a sinister Soviet Union involvement in the Asturias miners' strike of 1934 and its unforeseen consequences for Andoni Arriola, a Basque metallurgist. As he delves deeper into the case, he finds himself caught in a web of intrigue involving the Spanish Civil War, the injury and death of British intelligence agents, and the protection of Britain's interests in the iron and copper mining industries. As he travels from Tangiers to Gibraltar, Huelva, and Bilbao, he witnesses the devastating effects of civil war and the destruction of open-cast mining. Along the way, he encounters Heinrich Rathenau, a German industrial chemist seeking refuge, and becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of espionage and political maneuvering that reveals the high stakes of international trade and the human cost of war.