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10 touching novels about loneliness
1. Janusz Wisniewski, “Loneliness on the Net”
One of the most poignant love novels published in Russia recently. “Of all that is eternal, the shortest period of love” is the leitmotif of the European bestseller Y.L. Vishnevsky. The heroes of “Loneliness on the Network” meet in Internet chats, exchange erotic fantasies, tell stories from their lives that are worse than any fiction. They will meet in Paris, having passed through more than one test, but the main test for love will be the meeting itself. . .
2. Haruki Murakami – “The Norwegian Forest”
" I sold records in the evenings. In between, he watched the audience passing in front of the window. Families, couples, drunks, yakuzas, lively girls in miniskirts, guys with beards, hostess from bars and other incomprehensible people. It was worth putting rock, as the store gathered hippies and slackers - some danced, someone sniffed solvent, someone just sat on the asphalt. I didn't even know what was going on. "What is this?" I thought. What do they all mean by that? . .
3. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nasy"
Nausea is the essence of the existence of people who are stuck “in the bustle of the day”. People - thrown at the mercy of an alien, ruthless, joyless reality. Nausea is the impossibility of love and trust, it is simply the inability of a man and woman to understand each other. Nausea is the other side of despair on which Freedom lies. But what to do with this accursed freedom to a man saturated with loneliness? .
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Nobody Writes to the Colonel”
Before publishing this story, García Marquez rewrote it a dozen times and achieved his goal: in its capacity and power it is unmatched in all Latin American prose.
Outwardly, its plot canvas is unpretentious - only the power has changed in the Latin American country once again, the next metropolitan corrupt officials once again make fortunes - and the hero of the long-flying civil war, an elderly retired colonel, drags a semi-poor existence in a small provincial town ... But his story, the story of a small man alone defending his dignity, becomes the story of overcoming the loneliness, arbitrariness and absurdity that reign in the world.
5. Douglas Copeland as "Elinor Rigby"
Liz, who exists online under the nickname “Elinor Rigby”, is really lonely.
She is waiting for a miracle, and one day it happens. They say, “Be afraid of your desires, for they will come true.” Here is the long-awaited “cure for loneliness” Liz brings to her life not exactly what she expected. What's next? Something the Beatles would never have written about. .
6. Patrick Suskind, "Contrabass"
The play “Contrabass” is the first work of the outstanding German writer Patrick Suskind, the author of the famous “Perfume”. After the premiere in Munich, it became one of the most popular in Europe. It's also shipped in Russia. The play is accompanied by a brief autobiography of Suskind and statements of art critics about his work.
7. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway’s masterpiece. The story is devoted to “tragic stoicism”: in the face of the cruelty of the world, a person, even losing, must preserve courage and dignity. The image of a fierce fight with a monstrous fish, and then with sharks devouring it, successfully contrasts with reflections on the past, about the surrounding world.
8. Michael Cunningham - "The Clock"
How does time work? How are books born? How are the author’s dream words intertwined? How do events (spread in time and space) affect words and words affect events? The fate of Virginia Woolf and her Mrs. Dalloway. England of the 20s and America of the 90s. Patriarchal Richmond, post-war Los Angeles and ultramodern New York. Love, death, creativity.
9. Richard Matheson, "I Am Legend"
Robert Neville, the hero of the novel I Am Legend, is the only person in Los Angeles who has not contracted a disease whose symptoms resemble vampirism, and the only survivor. Hiding in an armored house, he seeks a cure for a disease that has destroyed humanity. . .
Almost everyone knows this story today: the blockbuster of the same name with Will Smith in the title role was watched by millions of viewers. But did they all read the book that formed the basis of the script? Do you know how “great and terrible” it is? Did Richard Matheson see the end of this story? What profound and even shocking philosophical meaning did he put into his fantasy world of the future? The book that will never get old and never stop surprising is a cult science fiction novel.
10. Pascal Kinyar, Villa Amalia
Pascal Kinyar is one of the largest modern writers, winner of the Goncourt Prize (2002), a brilliant stylist, a person with colossal erudition, a connoisseur of ancient culture, as well as music of the Baroque era.
After a series of impressive volumes of exquisite author's essays, the appearance of this book, the first in the last seven years of a novel by Pascal Kignard, was welcomed by French critics. This book immediately attracted reader’s attention, overtaking S. King and M. Houellebecq in sales.
In the center of the story is the fate of an amazing female composer, the esoteric musical world she created, farewell to the beauty of the world, the charm of lonely walks on the cherished island, liberation from the fuss and temptations in the name of pure creativity. published
P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!
Source: //www.brainstorm-blog.ru/2015/07/10.html
One of the most poignant love novels published in Russia recently. “Of all that is eternal, the shortest period of love” is the leitmotif of the European bestseller Y.L. Vishnevsky. The heroes of “Loneliness on the Network” meet in Internet chats, exchange erotic fantasies, tell stories from their lives that are worse than any fiction. They will meet in Paris, having passed through more than one test, but the main test for love will be the meeting itself. . .
2. Haruki Murakami – “The Norwegian Forest”
" I sold records in the evenings. In between, he watched the audience passing in front of the window. Families, couples, drunks, yakuzas, lively girls in miniskirts, guys with beards, hostess from bars and other incomprehensible people. It was worth putting rock, as the store gathered hippies and slackers - some danced, someone sniffed solvent, someone just sat on the asphalt. I didn't even know what was going on. "What is this?" I thought. What do they all mean by that? . .
3. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nasy"
Nausea is the essence of the existence of people who are stuck “in the bustle of the day”. People - thrown at the mercy of an alien, ruthless, joyless reality. Nausea is the impossibility of love and trust, it is simply the inability of a man and woman to understand each other. Nausea is the other side of despair on which Freedom lies. But what to do with this accursed freedom to a man saturated with loneliness? .
4. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Nobody Writes to the Colonel”
Before publishing this story, García Marquez rewrote it a dozen times and achieved his goal: in its capacity and power it is unmatched in all Latin American prose.
Outwardly, its plot canvas is unpretentious - only the power has changed in the Latin American country once again, the next metropolitan corrupt officials once again make fortunes - and the hero of the long-flying civil war, an elderly retired colonel, drags a semi-poor existence in a small provincial town ... But his story, the story of a small man alone defending his dignity, becomes the story of overcoming the loneliness, arbitrariness and absurdity that reign in the world.
5. Douglas Copeland as "Elinor Rigby"
Liz, who exists online under the nickname “Elinor Rigby”, is really lonely.
She is waiting for a miracle, and one day it happens. They say, “Be afraid of your desires, for they will come true.” Here is the long-awaited “cure for loneliness” Liz brings to her life not exactly what she expected. What's next? Something the Beatles would never have written about. .
6. Patrick Suskind, "Contrabass"
The play “Contrabass” is the first work of the outstanding German writer Patrick Suskind, the author of the famous “Perfume”. After the premiere in Munich, it became one of the most popular in Europe. It's also shipped in Russia. The play is accompanied by a brief autobiography of Suskind and statements of art critics about his work.
7. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway’s masterpiece. The story is devoted to “tragic stoicism”: in the face of the cruelty of the world, a person, even losing, must preserve courage and dignity. The image of a fierce fight with a monstrous fish, and then with sharks devouring it, successfully contrasts with reflections on the past, about the surrounding world.
8. Michael Cunningham - "The Clock"
How does time work? How are books born? How are the author’s dream words intertwined? How do events (spread in time and space) affect words and words affect events? The fate of Virginia Woolf and her Mrs. Dalloway. England of the 20s and America of the 90s. Patriarchal Richmond, post-war Los Angeles and ultramodern New York. Love, death, creativity.
9. Richard Matheson, "I Am Legend"
Robert Neville, the hero of the novel I Am Legend, is the only person in Los Angeles who has not contracted a disease whose symptoms resemble vampirism, and the only survivor. Hiding in an armored house, he seeks a cure for a disease that has destroyed humanity. . .
Almost everyone knows this story today: the blockbuster of the same name with Will Smith in the title role was watched by millions of viewers. But did they all read the book that formed the basis of the script? Do you know how “great and terrible” it is? Did Richard Matheson see the end of this story? What profound and even shocking philosophical meaning did he put into his fantasy world of the future? The book that will never get old and never stop surprising is a cult science fiction novel.
10. Pascal Kinyar, Villa Amalia
Pascal Kinyar is one of the largest modern writers, winner of the Goncourt Prize (2002), a brilliant stylist, a person with colossal erudition, a connoisseur of ancient culture, as well as music of the Baroque era.
After a series of impressive volumes of exquisite author's essays, the appearance of this book, the first in the last seven years of a novel by Pascal Kignard, was welcomed by French critics. This book immediately attracted reader’s attention, overtaking S. King and M. Houellebecq in sales.
In the center of the story is the fate of an amazing female composer, the esoteric musical world she created, farewell to the beauty of the world, the charm of lonely walks on the cherished island, liberation from the fuss and temptations in the name of pure creativity. published
P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!
Source: //www.brainstorm-blog.ru/2015/07/10.html
