This harrowing story of a man lost in his times, bewildered and anguished by both war and love, is a masterful portrayal of the human psyche at odds with itself.
Hugo Charteris Knihy
Hugo Charteris bol škótsky prozaik, ktorého diela sa často zaoberajú zložitými medziľudskými vzťahmi a spoločenskými normami. Jeho písanie sa vyznačuje bystrým pozorovaním ľudskej povahy a prenikavým vhľadom do psychológie postáv. Charteris majstrovsky splieta napätie a humor, aby preskúmal témy lásky, zrady a hľadania identity. Jeho romány sú cenným príspevkom do literatúry, ktorý čitateľom ponúka pútavé a podnetné čítanie.
Pictures on the Wall
- 264 stránok
- 10 hodin čítania
Picnic at Porokorro
- 262 stránok
- 10 hodin čítania
The Tide Is Right
- 145 stránok
- 6 hodin čítania
This remarkable novel, suppressed in 1957 and published by Dalkey Archive for the first time, is concerned with a day in the life of a stagnant, aristocratic Scottish family in the 1950s. As the family prepares for its annual Christmas dance, old rivalries and tensions flare as John Harling arrives to visit his sister Mary, who has married Duncan Mackean, next in line to inherit the estate left by Colin Mackean, dead two years now, but very much alive in the memory of the current family, presided over by Alan Mackean and his wife Augustine ("Tin"). By the end of this nerve-racking day, John tells his sister that "this life, which you lead here, is incestuous" and that her husband Duncan "is in love with things he should have left--long ago. Soil, place, family, the past--roots... One must have courage to travel light today." That night, Duncan and Alan go out shooting; only one returns alive.
