Edgar Lawrence Doctorow Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. As he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves.

This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been an inadvertent agent of disaster. Speaking from an unknown place and to an unknown interlocutor, Andrew is thinking, Andrew is talking, Andrew is telling the story of his life, his loves, and the tragedies that have led him to this place and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back the layers of his strange story, we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves. Written with psychological depth and great lyrical precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking novel delivers a voice for our times—funny, probing, skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew’s Brain is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in the words of Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history.”

Brillante Erzählungen des Altmeisters der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur Von »Ragtime« und »Billy Bathgate« über »Der Marsch« bis hin zu »Homer und Langley«: E. L. Doctorow gehört zu den ganz Großen der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Seine hier gesammelten Erzählungen kreisen um Menschen, die außerhalb der Gesellschaft stehen oder sich im Konflikt mit ihrer Umgebung befinden und zeigen Doctorow in seiner ganzen Meisterschaft. Der Band versammelt sechs Glanzstücke aus Doctorows bisheriger Karriere als Meister der kurzen Form, sozusagen die Klassiker, und sechs bisher unveröffentlichte Erzählungen. Ein Mann verabschiedet sich am Ende eines ganz normalen Arbeitstages von seiner Upper-Middle-Class-Existenz und beginnt, in demselben wohlhabenden Vorort, in dem er mit seiner Familie lebte, zu betteln und zu plündern. Ein College-Absolvent nimmt aus einer Laune heraus einen Job als Tellerwäscher an und wird in kriminelle Machenschaften verwickelt, als er einer Scheinehe zustimmt. Die ohnehin komplizierte Beziehung eines Ehepaares verschärft sich, als ein Fremder in ihrem Haus auftaucht und behauptet, dort aufgewachsen zu sein. Ein Großstädter argwöhnt auf seiner morgendlichen Joggingrunde, dass die Stadt in der er lebt, über Nacht eine andere geworden ist. Diese brillante Mischung aus Geheimnis, Spannung und ethisch-moralischen Fragen zeichnet alle hier versammelten Erzählungen von Doctorow aus.

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley , the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from their surroundings—people in some sort of contest with the prevailing world”.A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper-middle-class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.A college graduate takes a dishwasher’s job on a whim, and becomes entangled in a criminal enterprise after agreeing to marry a beautiful immigrant for money.A husband and wife’s tense relationship is exacerbated when a stranger enters their home and claims to have grown up there.An urbanite out on his morning run suspects that the city in which he’s lived all his life has transmogrified into another city altogether.These are among the wide-ranging creations in this stunning collection, resonant with the mystery, tension, and moral investigation that distinguish the fiction of E. L. Doctorow. Containing six unforgettable stories that have never appeared in book form, and a selection of previous Doctorow classics, All the Time in the World affords us another opportunity to savor the genius of this American master.

Dej knihy sa odohráva v mysli vojaka, dokaličeného úlomkami míny v poslednom mesiaci 1. svetovej vojny, postupne sa preberá z bezvedomia a medzi spomienkami na detstvo, rodičov, lásku a prácu postupne zisťuje, že nemá nič, čím by dal najavo, že žije, že myslí. Príznačná a otrasná je scéna,keď nehybnému, nevidomému torzu odovzdávajú medailu, vojenské vyznamenanie. Úbožiak Johnny je však naozaj hrdina. Nie tým, že vzorne vykonával rozkazy tých, čo ho do vojny nahnali, ale tým, že sa vzbúril a že v strašnom utrpení našiel spôsob, ako bojovať, keď už nie za svoje šťastie, tak aspoň za pokojný život iných. Prvé vydanie. Cena knihy v čase vydania: 17 Kčs.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLIST Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers—the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers—wars, political movements, technological advances—and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

A dazzling collection of short works crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E.L. Doctorow is famous

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the dispossessed and the triumphant. In E. L. Doctorow’s hands the great march becomes a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.

In his workbook, a New York City novelist captures the overflow of his thoughts—story sketches, love affairs, reflections on popular songs, movie ideas, and cosmic obsessions. He becomes a repository of contemporary ideas and historical events. His latest inspiration revolves around a mysterious incident involving a large brass cross that vanished from St. Timothy's, a dilapidated Episcopal church, only to reappear on the roof of the Synagogue for Evolutionary Judaism. The church's unconventional rector and the young rabbi are determined to uncover the motives behind this act of desecration. As the novelist befriends them, their struggles with tradition become intertwined with the mystery. He documents his interviews, insights, and drafts, while the investigation expands to include a diverse array of characters—scientists, veterans, prelates, Holocaust survivors, cabinet members, theologians, reporters, filmmakers, and crooners. This quest evolves into a search for authentic spirituality at the close of a turbulent century. Daringly straddling the sacred and the profane, and infused with the essence of New York, this inventive narrative emerges as a significant reflection of our times, capturing the essence of the twentieth century for the twenty-first.