Сью Придо – лучшие книги

Фридрих Ницше — одна из самых загадочных фигур в философии; пожалуй, самый непонятый мыслитель в истории, предвидевший проблемы нашего времени и искавший для них решения. Его идеи о сверхчеловеке, смерти Бога, воле к власти и рабской морали поставили под сомнение принятые в XIX–XX вв. общественные нормы и модели политических отношений и оказали значительное влияние на западную культуру. Но что большинство из нас знает о самом Ницше? Каким был философ, которым восхищались Альбер Камю, Айн Рэнд, Мартин Бубер?

Ницше писал, что философия сама по себе автобиографична, и в яркой, убедительной, разрушающей мифы биографии, созданной признанным мастером жанра Сью Придо, открывается мир этого блестящего, эксцентричного мыслителя и отягощенного множеством проблем человека. Внимание акцентируется на событиях и людях, которые повлияли на жизнь и творчество великого философа (Рихард и Козима Вагнер, Лу Саломе — роковая женщина, разбившая ему сердце, сестра Элизабет). Благочестивое христианское воспитание, глубокие переживания, связанные с загадочной смертью отца, преподавательская деятельность, одинокое времяпрепровождение высоко в горах и печальное погружение в безумие — рассматривая ключевые этапы биографии Ницше и анализируя его важнейшие произведения, автор ярко воссоздает интеллектуальный и эмоциональный аспекты жизни философа.

Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this universal image, one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the twentieth century? What kind of experiences did he have? In this book, the first comprehensive biography of Edvard Munch in English, Sue Prideaux brings the artist fully to life. Combining a scholar’s precision with a novelist’s insight, she explores the events of his turbulent life and unerringly places his experiences in their intellectual, emotional, and spiritual contexts.
With unlimited access to tens of thousands of Munch’s papers, including his letters and diaries, Prideaux offers a portrait of the artist that is both intimate and moving. Munch sought to paint what he experienced rather than what he saw, and as his life often veered out of control, his experiences were painful. Yet he painted throughout his long life, creating strange and dramatic works in which hysteria and violence lie barely concealed beneath the surface. An extraordinary genius, Munch connects with an audience that reaches around the world and across more than a century.

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite drawing room into the snakepit of psychological warfare.

This biography, supported by extensive new research, describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature. Sue Prideaux organizes Strindberg's story into a gripping and highly readable narrative that both illuminates his work and restores humour and humanity to a man often shrugged off as too difficult. Best known for his play Miss Julie, Strindberg wrote sixty other plays, three books of poetry, eighteen novels, and nine autobiographies. Even more than most, Strindberg is a writer whose life sheds invaluable light on his work.

Prideaux explores Strindberg's many art-life connections, revealing for the first time the originals who inspired the characters of Miss Julie and her servant Jean, the bizarre circumstances in which the play was written, and the real suicide that inspired the shattering ending of the play. Recounting the playwright's journey through the "real" world as well as the world of belief and ideas, Prideaux marks the centenary of Strindberg's death in 1912 with a biography worthy of the man who laid the foundation for Western drama through the twentieth century and even into the twenty-first.