9 the best psychological novels of the world

1. Aldous Huxley — Kontrapunkt

Exquisite, evil and perfectly accurate novel of manners, ascending to creativity even Wilde not, but Thackeray. The novel, the author of which as a surgical scalpel dissects the life and mores of English high society in the era of "great twenties. The novel is full of humor and sarcasm, but sometimes rising to the level of high tragedy.

Before you — "the search of lost time" by Aldous Huxley, time, public fascination with Freudianism and avant-garde, time, tireless spiritual quest, brilliant victories and bitter defeats...

 

2. Nicholas Bourne — Fake

Novel Nicholas Bourne "Fake" became a cult book and an intellectual best-seller for several generations of readers. In 1981, the novel was filmed by Volker Slendertan.

In war as in war... We should know. As it is today. So it was thirty years ago: the middle East, bombs exploding, a journalist trying to understand the essence of the nightmare. Although is it only a nightmare? After all, around the corner of this hell is peaceful quarter, there is a woman you can love the scream of flying shells... That this war and this love is true and what is false? What "information mythmaking" is George Lashen, sending their reports in one of the German Newspapers? "A thought uttered is a lie"? And feelings... And life itself... Are they fake?

 

3. Mikhail Lermontov — a Hero of our time

The novel "Hero of our time" — one of tops of Russian prose of the first half of the nineteenth century viewed by contemporaries Lermontov as "strange", the novel encourages all new and new generations of readers to seek solutions to his mysteries.

 

4. John Fowles — The Magus

"The Magus" by John Fowles — psychological drama, a mystical detective story with elements of eroticism, paradoxical romance, an intellectual mystery...

On the Greek island conducted psychological experiments associated with the fears and emotions of people and turn their lives into torture.

The game starts.

 

5. Haruki Murakami — Kafka on the shore

I noticed that on the chest of the white shirt stuck to something black, shaped like the large butterfly with open wings... In the flickering light of a fluorescent lamp, it became clear: this is a dark red bloodstain. Fresh blood, not yet dried up. Quite a lot. I tilted his head and sniffed the spot. No smell. Blood splatter — very little — was on a dark blue shirt, where it was not so noticeable. And white tank top — so bright and fresh...a Nightmarish journey through the maze of the soul — in a novel Haruki Murakami "Kafka on the beach".

 

6. Ian Banks — The Bridge

In the famous novel by Scottish writer Iain banks "the Bridge" (The Bridge) intertwined with three layers of narrative. This is the story of a man with no memory, who can not help shrink; a story about a barbarian, a sorcerer and a fairy country, the description of the turbulent personal life of a power engineer from Edinburgh. Until the end nobody knows what they have in common, except for the Bridge, which spans live all these people. It is not clear who of them, in fact, asleep.

 

7. Yury Trifonov, the House on the embankment

"The house on quay" — one of the most acute and topical works of the twentieth century. The story is given a profound analysis of the nature of fear, the degradation of the people under the yoke of a totalitarian system.

A genuine interest in the person the desire to show it in the most dramatic events of his life and turning points in history and put the story of Yury Trifonov in the best works of world literature.

 

8. Michael Cunningham — Selected days

Roman "Selected days" – the story of amazing strength. Original and courageous writer, joins Cunningham in the book of various genres part three: the mysterious history of the era of the industrial revolution, a Thriller about modern terrorism and the novel about a post-apocalyptic future that are related to the place of action (new York), the same group of characters (man, woman, boy) and a prophetic figure of the American poet Walt Whitman.

 

9. William Golding — The Spire

The novel "the Spire" by William Golding is, according to many critics, the culmination of his work, both from the point of view of ideological content and artistic creativity. In this novel, which takes place in the English town of the XIV century, reality and myth are intertwined even more than in Lord of the flies". In "the Spire" Golding, Nobel prize winner, during his lifetime recognized as a classic of English literature, revisits the essence of human nature and the problem of evil. published

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