10 exciting books c negative main characters! Bashny.Net

1. "Perfume. The story of a murderer" by Patrick Suskind

Published in 1985 novel "Perfume", which intricately combines features of the Baroque, romanticism, literary parables, and intellectual Thriller, not just has been translated into 33 languages and more than eight years, lasted in the list of international bestsellers, but also became a kind of standard modern European intellectual prose.

Thriller-a bestseller that describes the life story of a brilliant perfumer and bloody murderer Jean-Baptiste grenuya, instantly became an international sensation.

"Perfume" is recognized as the most famous novel written in German, since the books E. M. Remarque "On the Western front without changes".





2. "A clockwork orange" by Anthony Burgess

"A clockwork orange" — a literary paradox of the twentieth century. Continuing the futuristic tradition in literature, experimenting with language, which is spoken by milestone generation malltshipalltshikov and kisok "nasatya", Anthony Burgess creates a novel, an acknowledged classic of modern literature.

Clever, cruel, charismatic anti-hero Alex, the leader of a street gang, preaching violence as high art life, as a kind of pleasure, falls into the iron grip of the latest state program for the rehabilitation of criminals and he becomes a victim of violence. Is it possible to save the world from evil, depriving a person of faith to do things and turning it into "a clockwork orange"? This question is relevant today as well as yesterday, and the question this author asks the reader.

3. "The Collector" John Fowles

"Collector" is one of the most famous novels of Fowles, though inferior in high-profile glory "the Magus" and frantic "the Worm." But, perhaps, it is this calm and thoughtfully novel, comparable internal expression with prose of William Golding, creates a very clear idea of the philosophical and aesthetic concepts Fowles...

4. American psycho Bret Easton Ellis

Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated, intelligent young man. By day, he works on wall street, but it serves only as an appendage to his true calling. What he does in the evenings and at night, can dream still soft after the man in the street and in the nightmare. He was twenty-six years, and he's living his own American Dream.

5. "Holidays in a coma" Frederic Beigbeder

`Holiday in a coma` — a brash and funny caricature of a modern French Bohemia who consider themselves center of the Universe. At the opening of a new discotheque `the Outhouse` invited the best of the best, the cream of society — actors, artists, musicians, top models, expensive whores, lunatics and children. Among the invited and Marc Maronnier, which in this crazy world looking for love... and finds — though not where he expected.

6. "Golovlevs" Saltykov-Shchedrin

In the novel "the Golovlevs" depicts the spiritual and physical degradation of the nobility, as determined by the author, "for several generations of three characteristic traits passed through the history of this family: a sloth, unfitness for any business and booze". Family Golovlevy is a collective artistic image, embodying the features of life, psychology, the whole way of life of the landlords before and after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. In the novel reflected the philosophical thoughts of the writer over the fate of man and society, problems of interaction between environment and personality, social psychology and ethics.

7. "The book of human skin" Michelle Lovric

The skin of Marcella radiates unearthly purity — and at the sight of her the ground was slipping from under the feet of the young doctor Santo, and the older brother of girls would prefer to fill this tender cover a sinister collection of books from human skin. The girl's love for Santo it is like an obsession to her to rot alive in a madhouse or monastery. It can save only death, and her boyfriend knows what to do!

8. "Seeing dogs" Inger, Edelfeldt

The hero of the novel — Ragnar, a former school teacher. He's a misanthrope who prefers dogs to the human world. In fact, the whole novel is a letter he wrote to the psychiatrist. Ragnar — educated man with fine literary and musical taste, but all his attempts to establish relationships with people fail. And it reinforces his anger and the feeling that dogs are much closer to him than people.

In Russian the novel was published for the first time.

9. "The Gardener" Rodrigo Cortés

He was born an outcast. The son of poor Spanish gardener, the mute and half-witted fool, Sebastian Jose didn't know what love is. But he knew how to love their masters — the family of a wealthy landowner and Esperanza. He decided to give them a garden of Eden, where after the death of his Lord will find eternal bliss. For a start, Sebastian steals from the crypt and buries in the garden the corpse of a dead good seniors Dolores. And then each family member takes a corner of the garden for resting. One is bad: some of the gentlemen are in no hurry to go to heaven, and you have to help them to die. Dead becomes more and more. And gradually, the garden of eternal bliss turns into a huge mass grave...

10. "The fifth child" Doris Lessing

The lives of Harriet and David recalls the dream of all young couples: they have a big house, a stable income, four lovely children and lots of loving relatives. And then they have a fifth child... But man does he?

This shocking story about a happy family and a child as a freak, which is at a primitive stage of development, the outcast at home and in the surrounding society, in many ways comparable to the iconic "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. The book was continued in the novel "Ben amongst the people."

"The fifth child" is one of the most important books of the late work of Doris Lessing, caused a storm among readers and critics. published

 

P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©

  

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