Лучшие книги Джона Хоукса

Добро пожаловать в одну из самых долгих ночей в мировой литературе. Время - апрель 1945 года, над третью уже почти полностью оккупированной союзниками Германии надзирает единственный американец на мотоцикле, а в городке Шпицене-на-Дайне зреет заговор по возрождению нации… Что это будет за нация, удастся ли заговорщикам взять власть в свои руки? И, что немаловажно, кто такой этот людоед в названии романа? Джон Хоукс (1925-1998) сам участвовал во Второй мировой войне, учился у Владимира Набокова и вдохновлялся его произведениями - а также работами Уильяма Фолкнера, Франца Кафки и Джуны Барнз. В романе, ставшем одной из самых знаковых книг…

Джона Хоукса называли "писателем для писателей", а Джон Барт считал его "самой яркой - и самой темной - звездой американской литературы XX века". "Ирландский прищур" - сказка братьев Гримм, рассказанная Джойсом, где главная героиня, ирландская сиротка Дервла О'Шэннон, не всегда та, кем кажется на первый взгляд. Для того чтобы разглядеть правду в мире фантазий и обмана, мрачных галлюцинаций, напоенных черным юмором, следует немного прищуриться... Последний роман одного из величайших постмодернистов Джона Хоукса (1925-1998) - впервые на русском языке.

Маленький шедевр современной литературы - роман Джона Хоукса "Лягух" - впервые на русском языке.

Незауряден тот, кто приютил лягушку! Да-да, у главного героя изысканной и филигранной сказки выдающегося американского постмодерниста XX века Джона Хоукса в животе поселилась лягушка по имени Арман - не метафора, не аллегория и не символ. Совершенно реальное и живое земноводное, обладающее к тому же ненасытным любопытством, прескверным характером и незаурядным сексуальным аппетитом.

An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name. But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships, fears, and loves. For as Leslie…

Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present—what he refers to as his "naked history"—in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy. The past: the suicides of his father, wife and daughter, the murder of his son-in-law, a brutal rape, and subsequent mutiny at sea. The present: caring for his granddaughter on a "northern" island where he works as an artificial inseminator of cows, and attempts to reclaim the innocence with which he faced the tragedies of his earlier life. Combining unflinching…

"Rich, evocative, highly original piece of fiction. It gilds contemporary American literature with real, not synthetic, gold."—Anthony Burgess "Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive? That our sexual selves are merely idylers in a vast wood?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed novel The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal multisexualist. Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Mediterranean landscape. There two couples—Cyril and…

Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. “It is an exceptionally concise and beautiful work,”…

Travesty is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sportscar is speeding through the night, hearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the “privileged man” justifies, in sustained monologue, his firm persuasion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. “What I have in mind is an ‘accident’ so perfectly contrived that it will he unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.” This is the final work in a triad of novels concerned with sex,…

The Beetle Leg, John Hawkes's second full-length novel, was first published by New Directions in 1951. Now, after more than sixty years, this brilliant novel is emerging as a classic of visionary writing and still remains Hawkes's only work devoted solely to American life. As a "surrealist Western" (Newsweek), and a violent and poetic portrayal of "a landscape of sexual apathy" (A.J. Guerard), The Beetle Leg is a rich flight into the special vein of comedy that Hawkes had begun to exploit a decade before the popular acceptance of "black humor."