Mario Biondi Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Vo Viedni devätnásteho storočia sa odohráva dráma lásky, osudu a vôle na pozadí intelektuálnych prúdov, ktoré budú definovať celú éru. Josef Breuer, jeden zo zakladateľov psychoanalýzy, je na vrchole svojej kariéry. Jedného z najväčších európskych filozofov Friedricha Nietzscheho trápia samovražedné myšlienky, nenachádza liek na bolesti hlavy a ďalšie problémy, ktoré ho sužujú. Keď Breuer vyhovie prosbe Lou Salomé liečiť Nietzscheho svojou experimentálnou metódou založenou na rozhovore, ešte netuší, že aj on nájde v týchto stretnutiach útechu. Až vďaka tomu, že musí čeliť vlastným vnútorným démonom, dokáže talentovaný psychiater pomôcť svojmu pacientovi. V románe Keď Nietzsche plakal spája Yalom fakty a fikciu, atmosféru a napätie, aby odkryl nezabudnuteľný príbeh o sile myšlienok a priateľstva.

Italian

Revenge and transformation drive the narratives in this collection. A paralyzed authoress plots against her unfaithful husband with her nurse's help, while a determined woman seeks retribution against the drug dealer responsible for her disability, using a young thug's infatuation. The final story follows a passionate affair between a discontented yuppie and a party-loving raver, set against an energetic house music backdrop. Each tale explores flawed characters chasing love and vengeance in unexpected ways, ensuring an exhilarating reading experience.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed. "Haunting .... A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper." —Los Angeles Times San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries—memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

Dej románu, sústredený na tri až štyri dni, sa odohráva v druhom roku občianskej vojny v Španielsku. Američan Robert Jordan, univerzitný profesor španielčiny, člen medzinárodnej brigády, je poverený dôležitou úlohou, ktorá má zaistiť úspech chystanej republikánskej ofenzíve. Pracuje v tylenepriateľa ako diverzant a plní svoju úlohu, aj keď sa presvedčil o jej nezmyselnosti. Na charakteroch niekoľkých republikánov, s ktorými sa hrdina románu stretáva pri zabezpečovaní akcie, je zobrazené celé vtedajšie revolučné Španielsko so všetkými problémami, úspechmi aj zmätkami. Autor sa sám zúčastnil ako korešpondent občianskej vojny v Španielsku na strane republikánov.

Italian

Sean Courtney goes to South Africa in the late 19th century to begin farming.

. 8vo pp. 352 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)

Classic adventure from Wilbur Smith.A single ball came through at deck level, It struck a burst of sparks from the steel hull, like Brocks Fireworks at Crystal palace, brilliant orange even in the strong sunlight, and the hole it tore through Black Joke's plating was fringed with bare jagged tongues of metal like the petals of a silver sunflower.' In search of a father they barely remember, Zouga and Dr Robyn Ballantyne board Mungo St John's magnificent clipper to speed them to Africa. But long before they sight that mighty continent, Robyn knows that she and Mungo will battle with all the fury of natural enemies -- and love with all the desperation of those unable to evade the commands of fate. For if she can bring hope and healing to Africa's fever-ridden shores, he, a lawless trader in human cargo, will possess any man -- or woman -- he chooses...

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)