17 книг
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Стоунер Джон Уильямс
ISBN: 978-5-17-090823-3 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: АСТ, Corpus Язык: Русский РазвернутьПоэт и прозаик Джон Уильямс (1922–1994), лауреат Национальной книжной премии США, выпустил всего четыре романа, и один из них — знаменитый «Стоунер», книга с необычной и счастливой судьбой. Впервые увидев свет пятьдесят лет назад, она неожиданно обрела вторую жизнь в XXI веке. Переиздание вызвало в Америке колоссальный резонанс. Знаменитая на весь мир Анна Гавальда взялась за французский перевод, и «Стоунер» с надписью на обложке «Прочла, полюбила и перевела Анна Гавальда» покорил Францию. Вскоре последовали переводы на другие языки, и к автору пришла посмертная слава. Крестьянский парень Уильям Стоунер неожиданно для себя увлекся текстами…
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Ein Monat auf dem Land J.L. Carr
ISBN: 978-3832198350 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: DuMont Buchverlag GmbH & Co. KG Язык: Немецкий РазвернутьSommer 1920 im nordenglischen Oxgodby: Als auf dem Bahnhof ein Londoner aus dem Zug steigt, weiß gleich das ganze Dorf Bescheid: Er ist der Restaurator, der das mittelalterliche Wandgemälde in der örtlichen Kirche freilegen soll. Doch was steckt hinter der Fassade des stotternden und unter chronischen Gesichtszuckungen leidenden Mannes? Tom Birkin hat im Ersten Weltkrieg gekämpft, als traumatisierter Veteran wurde er von seiner Frau verlassen. Er hofft, in der Ruhe und Einfachheit Yorkshires zu gesunden. Und tatsächlich: Langsam gelingt es ihm, sich der Welt um sich herum zu öffnen, vielleicht sogar der Liebe … J. L. Carr erzählt von einem…
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My Dog Tulip J.R. Ackerley
ISBN: 978-1590174142 Год издания: 2010 Издательство: NYRB Classics Язык: Английский РазвернутьMORE BY J. R. ACKERLEY, ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS The distinguished British man of letters J. R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came into possession of a German shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the “ideal friend” he had been searching for in vain for years. My Dog Tulip is a bittersweet retrospective account of their sixteen-year companionship, as well as a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness that lies at the heart of all relationships. In vivid and sometimes startling detail, Ackerley tells of Tulip’s often erratic behavior and very canine…
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Fancies and Goodnights (сборник) John Collier
ISBN: 1590170512, 9781590170519 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: New York Review Books, NYRB Classics Язык: Английский John Collier’s edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it’s always easy to tell one from another), Collier’s dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise. -
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved P.V. Glob
ISBN: 1590170903 Год издания: 2004 РазвернутьOne spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility. Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing…
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti Milton Rokeach
ISBN: 9781590173848 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: New York Review Books Classics Язык: Английский РазвернутьOn July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent in one another’s company serve as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing,…
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A Time of Gifts Patrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN: 9781590171653 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: NYRB Classics Язык: Английский РазвернутьIn 1933 Patrick Leigh Fermor was eighteen. Expelled from school for a flirtation with a local girl, he headed to London to set up as a writer, only to find that dream harder to realize than expected. Then he had the idea of leaving his troubles behind; he would "change scenery; abandon London and England and set out across Europe like a tramp . . . travel on foot, sleep in hayricks in summer, shelter in barns when it was raining or snowing and only consort with peasants and tramps." Shortly after, Leigh Fermor shouldered his rucksack and set forth on the extraordinary trek that was to take him up the Rhine, down the Danube, and on to…
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The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings Hugo von Hofmannsthal
ISBN: 1590171209, 9781590171202 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: New York Review Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьHugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the…
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Sunflower Дьюла Круди
ISBN: 1590171861 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: NYRB Classics Язык: Английский РазвернутьGyula Krúdy is a marvellous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and even madness. In Sunflower young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, who is languishing for love of her, and is visited by…
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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese Patrick Leigh Fermor
ISBN: 9781590171882 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: New York Review Books Язык: Английский РазвернутьThe Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its people's daily lives. Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has been described as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene," bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to reveal an ancient world living alongside the twentieth century. Here, in the book that confirmed his reputation as one of the English…
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The Adventures of Sindbad Gyula Krúdy
ISBN: 9781590174456 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: New York Review Books Язык: Английский Развернуть“What you have loved remains yours.” Thus speaks the irresistible rogue Sindbad, ironic hero of these fantastic tales, who has seduced and abandoned countless women over the course of centuries but never lost one, for he returns to visit them all—ladies, actresses, housemaids—in his memories and dreams. From the bustling streets of Budapest to small provincial towns where nothing ever seems to change, this ghostly Lothario encounters his old flames wherever he goes: along the banks of the Danube; under windows where they once courted; in churches and in graveyards, where Eros and Thanatos tryst. Lies, bad behavior, and fickleness of all kinds…
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Speedboat Рената Адлер
ISBN: 1590176138, 9781590176139 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: NYRB Classics Язык: Английский One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back. When members of the National Book Critics Circle were polled to see which book they would most like to see republished, they chose Speedboat—“by far.” This story of a young female newspaper reporter coming of age in New York City was originally published serially in the New Yorker; it is made out of seemingly unrelated vignettes—tart observations distilled through relentless intellect—which add up to an analysis of our brittle, urban existence. It remains as fresh as when it was first published.
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Proud Beggars Альберт Коссери
ISBN: 1590174429 Год издания: 1955 Издательство: NYRB Classics Язык: Русский РазвернутьEarly in "Proud Beggars," a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery's wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life. Chief among Cossery's proud beggars is Gohar, a former professor turned whorehouse accountant, hashish aficionado, and street philosopher. Such is his native charm that he has accumulated a small coterie that includes Yeghen, a rhapsodic poet and drug dealer, and El Kordi, an ineffectual clerk and would-be revolutionary who dreams of rescuing a consumptive…
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Стеклянные пчелы Эрнст Юнгер
ISBN: 978-5-17-134367-5 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: АСТ Язык: Русский РазвернутьОбщество технологического прогресса и торжество искусственного интеллекта, роботы, заменяющие человека на производстве, развитие виртуальной реальности и комфортное существование – таков антиутопический мир, в котором живет отставной ротмистр Рихард. Плата за подобное "благополучие" – одиночество и утрата личной свободы. Несмотря на это, он пытается получить работу на фабрике по производству наделенных интеллектом роботов-лилипутов некоего Дзаппарони, изощренного любителя экспериментов, желающего превзойти главного творца — природу. Но быть может, совершенство технологий — иллюзорное благо, которое лишь сбивает человечество с…
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Walkabout Джеймс Вэнс Маршалл
ISBN: 9781405881722 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Penguin Язык: Английский Contemporary / British English This is the story of an Aboriginal boy and two American children in the Australian desert. When they meet the boy, Mary and Peter learn about the desert. They follow him to food and water. But they are lost. Can they finish their journey and find their way home?
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Memoirs of Montparnasse John Glassco
ISBN: 978-1590171844 Издательство: NYRB Classics Язык: Английский РазвернутьMemoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the…
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Посредник Лесли Поулс Хартли
ISBN: 978-5-17-112767-1 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: АСТ, Neoclassic Язык: Русский Тринадцатилетний Лео проводит летние каникулы в роскошном имении, снятом для отдыха семьей его школьного друга, и робко, возвышенно, совершенно по-мальчишески влюбляется в старшую сестру этого друга Мариан. Однако эта уже помолвленная великосветская красавица, заметив его чувства, принимается хладнокровно и спокойно использовать Лео для передачи писем своему тайному возлюбленному — простому молодому фермеру. Постепенно ситуация накаляется. И на плечи обычного школьника ложится непосильный груз ответственности за запутанный клубок непонятных ему отношений сразу нескольких людей...
