Max Nemtsov Knihy

Dvě eseje kultovního autora, jež ovlivnila celá 60. léta nejen v Americe. Brány vnímání se zabývají bez předsudků halucinogeny a jejich vlivem na lidské vědomí. Huxley se v ní snaží o docenění psychologického a spirituálního efektu, který pro člověka mohou drogy představovat. V práci se projevuje autorův zájem o biologii a přírodní vědy. V eseji Nebe a peklo se zabývá podílem půstu, sebetrýznění a dlouhodobé odloučenosti na získání stejné zkušenosti.

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. ‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Suttree marks McCarthy’s closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books’ Stanley Booth

The classic autobiographical novel, “one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature” (Time), from acclaimed author Jack Kerouac “If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the book that is most representative of American life, I would nominate Desolation Angels.”—Dan Wakefield, The Atlantic Desolation Angels covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London. Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must “live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac.

Keby som sa narodil ako žena, bol by som určite prostitútka. Ale narodil som sa ako muž, a tak som neustále prahol po ženách, tých najhorších z najhorších. Na druhej strane mi ženy dobré ženy naháňali strach, pretože tie nakoniec dostali vašu dušu a ja som si posledné zvyšky tej svojej chcelnechať pre seba. V podstate som fantazíroval o primitívnych ženách, o prostitútkach, lebo sú smrtiace a hrubé, nemajú žiadne osobné nároky. O nič som neprišiel, keď odišli. No zároveň som túžil po jedinej žene, nežnej a dobrej, a to aj napriek tej ohromnej cene. Tak či tak, bol som stratený. Silný muž by sa vzdal obidvoch možností. Ale ja som nebol silný. Takže som sa ďalej boril so ženami, respektíve s predstavou o ženách.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama). Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.