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Novels about writers: 10 great books!
1. John Fowles — "Daniel Martin"
John Fowles — one of the most famous (and deservedly popular) British writers of the twentieth century, contemporary classic main caliber, the author of the world bestseller "the Collector" and "the Magus", "the French Lieutenant's woman" and "the ebony Tower"."Daniel Martin" is a British "garden of forking paths", a book that Fowles himself was called "unusual example of a philosophy beyond the common understanding" and also "an attempt to understand what it's like to be an Englishman". The hero of this novel, a former playwright, now a successful Hollywood screenwriter, returns to England to visit a sick friend. Being in the company of people who knew him before, he is forced to finally understand the secrets hidden in his past, and, having made a radical revaluation of values, to find yourself...
2. Joanne Harris ' "BlackBerry wine"
Wine can work wonders and new worlds. Jay McIntosh, a writer who doesn't write, hopelessly stuck in the past, finds six bottles of homemade wine, miraculously preserved since his childhood, which he recalls with acute nostalgia, pleasure and bitterness. An eccentric old gardener, forever changed the life of Jay, and then disappeared without a trace, has created a wine that turns life upside down. Search yourself, your place in the world, his lost talent blows Jay away from London to France, where he finds what seemed to be forever lost.
Unparalleled novel by Joanne Harris "BlackBerry wine" — the senses and sensuality, about the wines and wine about truth, friendship and magic, Amateur alchemy.
3. Somerset Maugham — "Cakes and beer, or a skeleton in the closet"
"Pie and beer, or a skeleton in the closet" is one of the most famous novels by Maugham. Immediately after the publication of readers and critics unanimously carried it among the best works of the writer. It's a sarcastic story about the literary longevity of British authors. In the center of the novel — the fate of a talented author and his wife on the background of the literary environment of the time.
4. Carlos Ruiz Savona — "Playing The Angel"
The novel, which critics around the world compared with the works of Edgar Allan PoE, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Arturo pérez-Reverte.
The author, who is called the "Stephen king for European intellectuals".
The strange story of David, a young journalist from "the city of magicians and alchemists" of Barcelona, which is a mysterious publisher that looks suspiciously like one of the dream of the Prince of Darkness, orders a certain Book...
Than not the last way to fame for the person who turned the work of each masterpiece, but I failed to write a masterpiece of their own, lost the woman dying from an incurable disease?
But anyone who's tried to write a Book to David, had died under mysterious circumstances. Everyone who was somehow connected with the writing process, too.
Why did it happen? Why keep happening?
As soon as David tries to find the answer to these questions, he immediately clear: the Darkness doesn't like it when mortals invade its limits...
5. Iris Murdoch "the Black Prince"
Bradley Pearson, an aging writer experiencing a creative crisis. Surrounded require constant attention and care of relatives, tormented ex-wife, he tries to find solace in the love of a young girl, the daughter of a friend. This love, doomed from the start, will inevitably lead to disaster.
The novel "the Black Prince" entered the Golden Fund of world literature and made famous iris Murdoch as the most "English" women writers of the twentieth century.
6. Jonathan Carroll's "land of laughter"
Considered to be magic realism undivided patrimony of the Latin American masters of the word. However, the genre, the cornerstone of which is a skillful combination of incongruous, showed a fertile ground for all sorts of experiments.
Jonathan Carroll is an American living in Vienna. It is called a worthy successor of the traditions like the famous namesake, and G. G. Marquez, and not without a fair admixture of Richard Bach. "Land of laughter" is the debut novel by Carroll, still considered by many to be perhaps the peak of his creativity. This is a book about love as a method of artistic creation, the labyrinth of obsession and the application coolingsystem.
7. Christopher Priest — "Lottery"
Peter Sinclair has lost everything — his father, his girlfriend, work. Feeling that life is slipping away like sand between his fingers, he tries to commit it on paper. But what starts out as autobiography, the story soon turns into a completely different person in another world, and the new reality sucks Peter's head...
From the author of "the Tilted world", "Machine space", "Glamour" and filmed by Christopher Nolan "the Prestige" (starring — Christian bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie), thanks to which the prestigious anthology "Grant" is included in their list of most promising British writers of the 1980-ies, along with Martin AMIS, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham swift.
8. Yann Martel — "Beatrice and Virgil"
The main character "Beatrice and Vergil" — the writer Henry, author of the mega in the world of the novel moved in a nameless metropolis where, struggling with a creative crisis, engaging in an Amateur theater troupe and works as a waiter at the Shokoladnitsa. Suddenly he receives in the mail two parcels — a novel by Flaubert, "the Legend of Saint Julian Strannopriimtsa" and the unfinished manuscript of the play "Beatrice and Virgil". The sender is an elderly Taxidermist, the owner of the shop "Okapi Taxidermy" who needs help Henry to finish the play. But gradually, Henry begins to feel suspicious, don't hide if an elderly Taxidermist terrible, not to say bloody, secret...
9. Ian McEwan — "Child in time"
Philosophical-psychological novel by British writer Ian McEwan (b. 1948) `Child in time` is about tragic events with children's author Stephen Lewis, whose straight from the supermarket unexpectedly and inexplicably disappears three year old daughter. This loss is life-changing for Stephen, because not only turns him from a loving husband and father, a successful and cheerful person in a slovenly recluse, but clearly shows him that her daughter was the only meaning of his life.
Steven's personal drama unfolds against the backdrop of the incessant flow of time, which acts in the novel the antagonist, started a strange fight with the main character.
Stephen only gradually opens the diversity of time and the force of his impact on people: it makes sure that for different people and in different situations, time flows in a special way, defining the very structure of human consciousness — each time a unique individual. Steven understands that no man owns his time, but time rules over people — the time of conception and time of birth, time of growth and time of maturity, in short — time as a mysterious, non-personal and Almighty power, which is impossible, but you can try to overcome only overcome yourself.
10. Stephen king "Bag of bones"
Welcome to a small cozy town, where writer Mike Noonan and bury himself after his wife's death. Welcome to the cozy haunted house where you can hear and see at night that can't imagine even a madman. Welcome to the place where it broke the will of the force such a nightmare that it is impossible even to describe it — but need to fight him... posted
P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
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John Fowles — one of the most famous (and deservedly popular) British writers of the twentieth century, contemporary classic main caliber, the author of the world bestseller "the Collector" and "the Magus", "the French Lieutenant's woman" and "the ebony Tower"."Daniel Martin" is a British "garden of forking paths", a book that Fowles himself was called "unusual example of a philosophy beyond the common understanding" and also "an attempt to understand what it's like to be an Englishman". The hero of this novel, a former playwright, now a successful Hollywood screenwriter, returns to England to visit a sick friend. Being in the company of people who knew him before, he is forced to finally understand the secrets hidden in his past, and, having made a radical revaluation of values, to find yourself...
2. Joanne Harris ' "BlackBerry wine"
Wine can work wonders and new worlds. Jay McIntosh, a writer who doesn't write, hopelessly stuck in the past, finds six bottles of homemade wine, miraculously preserved since his childhood, which he recalls with acute nostalgia, pleasure and bitterness. An eccentric old gardener, forever changed the life of Jay, and then disappeared without a trace, has created a wine that turns life upside down. Search yourself, your place in the world, his lost talent blows Jay away from London to France, where he finds what seemed to be forever lost.
Unparalleled novel by Joanne Harris "BlackBerry wine" — the senses and sensuality, about the wines and wine about truth, friendship and magic, Amateur alchemy.
3. Somerset Maugham — "Cakes and beer, or a skeleton in the closet"
"Pie and beer, or a skeleton in the closet" is one of the most famous novels by Maugham. Immediately after the publication of readers and critics unanimously carried it among the best works of the writer. It's a sarcastic story about the literary longevity of British authors. In the center of the novel — the fate of a talented author and his wife on the background of the literary environment of the time.
4. Carlos Ruiz Savona — "Playing The Angel"
The novel, which critics around the world compared with the works of Edgar Allan PoE, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Arturo pérez-Reverte.
The author, who is called the "Stephen king for European intellectuals".
The strange story of David, a young journalist from "the city of magicians and alchemists" of Barcelona, which is a mysterious publisher that looks suspiciously like one of the dream of the Prince of Darkness, orders a certain Book...
Than not the last way to fame for the person who turned the work of each masterpiece, but I failed to write a masterpiece of their own, lost the woman dying from an incurable disease?
But anyone who's tried to write a Book to David, had died under mysterious circumstances. Everyone who was somehow connected with the writing process, too.
Why did it happen? Why keep happening?
As soon as David tries to find the answer to these questions, he immediately clear: the Darkness doesn't like it when mortals invade its limits...
5. Iris Murdoch "the Black Prince"
Bradley Pearson, an aging writer experiencing a creative crisis. Surrounded require constant attention and care of relatives, tormented ex-wife, he tries to find solace in the love of a young girl, the daughter of a friend. This love, doomed from the start, will inevitably lead to disaster.
The novel "the Black Prince" entered the Golden Fund of world literature and made famous iris Murdoch as the most "English" women writers of the twentieth century.
6. Jonathan Carroll's "land of laughter"
Considered to be magic realism undivided patrimony of the Latin American masters of the word. However, the genre, the cornerstone of which is a skillful combination of incongruous, showed a fertile ground for all sorts of experiments.
Jonathan Carroll is an American living in Vienna. It is called a worthy successor of the traditions like the famous namesake, and G. G. Marquez, and not without a fair admixture of Richard Bach. "Land of laughter" is the debut novel by Carroll, still considered by many to be perhaps the peak of his creativity. This is a book about love as a method of artistic creation, the labyrinth of obsession and the application coolingsystem.
7. Christopher Priest — "Lottery"
Peter Sinclair has lost everything — his father, his girlfriend, work. Feeling that life is slipping away like sand between his fingers, he tries to commit it on paper. But what starts out as autobiography, the story soon turns into a completely different person in another world, and the new reality sucks Peter's head...
From the author of "the Tilted world", "Machine space", "Glamour" and filmed by Christopher Nolan "the Prestige" (starring — Christian bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie), thanks to which the prestigious anthology "Grant" is included in their list of most promising British writers of the 1980-ies, along with Martin AMIS, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham swift.
8. Yann Martel — "Beatrice and Virgil"
The main character "Beatrice and Vergil" — the writer Henry, author of the mega in the world of the novel moved in a nameless metropolis where, struggling with a creative crisis, engaging in an Amateur theater troupe and works as a waiter at the Shokoladnitsa. Suddenly he receives in the mail two parcels — a novel by Flaubert, "the Legend of Saint Julian Strannopriimtsa" and the unfinished manuscript of the play "Beatrice and Virgil". The sender is an elderly Taxidermist, the owner of the shop "Okapi Taxidermy" who needs help Henry to finish the play. But gradually, Henry begins to feel suspicious, don't hide if an elderly Taxidermist terrible, not to say bloody, secret...
9. Ian McEwan — "Child in time"
Philosophical-psychological novel by British writer Ian McEwan (b. 1948) `Child in time` is about tragic events with children's author Stephen Lewis, whose straight from the supermarket unexpectedly and inexplicably disappears three year old daughter. This loss is life-changing for Stephen, because not only turns him from a loving husband and father, a successful and cheerful person in a slovenly recluse, but clearly shows him that her daughter was the only meaning of his life.
Steven's personal drama unfolds against the backdrop of the incessant flow of time, which acts in the novel the antagonist, started a strange fight with the main character.
Stephen only gradually opens the diversity of time and the force of his impact on people: it makes sure that for different people and in different situations, time flows in a special way, defining the very structure of human consciousness — each time a unique individual. Steven understands that no man owns his time, but time rules over people — the time of conception and time of birth, time of growth and time of maturity, in short — time as a mysterious, non-personal and Almighty power, which is impossible, but you can try to overcome only overcome yourself.
10. Stephen king "Bag of bones"
Welcome to a small cozy town, where writer Mike Noonan and bury himself after his wife's death. Welcome to the cozy haunted house where you can hear and see at night that can't imagine even a madman. Welcome to the place where it broke the will of the force such a nightmare that it is impossible even to describe it — but need to fight him... posted
P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
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