Современная зарубежная литература

Автор этих рассказов — литературный «адвокат без клиента». Для него читатели как суд присяжных, которому он рассказывает о неблагополучной жизни тех, кого обычно называют «отбросами общества».

Полный перевод дилогии известного американского прозаика и драматурга И. Шоу (второй роман — «Нищий, вор»). В эту книгу вошли две последние части романа.

В романе Кларисе Лиспектор «Осажденный город» история города рисуется как история любви — любви истинной, с враждебностью, ненавистью, изменой, и в «палитре» писательницы — романтизм и философия, миф и фольклор, тонкий психологический анализ и изыски модернистского стиля. Судьба города — главного героя романа — переплетается судьбой наивной деревенской девушки Лукресии.

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival — six hundred years ago...

Маргарет Дюрас (1914 — 1996) родилась в Индокитае. Изучала математику, право, политологию. Однако мировая известность пришла к ней как к писательнице, сценаристке, кинорежиссеру. В основу известных мелодрам «Любовник» и «Любовник из Северного Китая» былиположены ее собственные романы. Наряду с А. Роб-Грийе она считается одним из основоположников французского «нового романа». Основные темы ее книг — так называемые роковые страсти: любовь, ненависть, ревность, приводящие к самоубийству и преступлению.

They met as children, innocents from two different worlds. And from that moment their lives were fated to be forever entwined. Timothy: Abandoned at birth, he finds a home — and a dazzling career — within the Catholic Church. But the vows he takes cannot protect him from one soul-lgniting passion. Daniel: The scholarly son of a great rabbi, he is destined to follow in his father's footsteps. And destined to break his father's heart. Deborah: She was raised to be docile and dutiful — the perfect rabbi's wife — but love will lead her to rebellion. And into world's the patriarch would never dare imagine. Reaching across more than a quarter of a century, from the tough streets of Brooklyn to ultramodern Brasilia to an Israeli kibbutz, and radiating the splendor of two holy cities, Rome and Jerusalem, here is Erich Segal's most provocative and ambitious novel to date — the unforgettable story of three extraordinary lives...and one forbidden love.

Роман крупнейшего аргентинского писателя Эрнесто Сабато «О героях и могилах» по праву считается одним из лучших образцов так называемого «нового» латиноамериканского романа. «Сабато — поэт Апокалипсиса, его очевидец и его свидетель», — сказал о писателе один из его современников. И действительно, герои романа пребывают в двух мирах: реальном, где события разворачиваются на фоне мегаполиса Буэнос-Айреса; и «потустороннем», порожденном фантазией сумасшедшего, в котором «боги мрака, инцеста и злодейства» пытаются овладеть душами людей.

Книга содержит иллюстрированные философско-сатирические рассуждения на тему: ох, как много абсурда и неразберихи творится в моей конторе, если посмотреть на ее повседневную работу изнутри… Может, со временем они завоюют такую же мировую популярность и значимость, как «Законы Паркинсона» или «Принцип Питера»? Для широкого круга читателей.

»Плексус» — вторая книга трилогии Генри Миллера «Распятие Розы». Названный более высоким слогом, в отличие от предыдущего романа, «Плексус» (в переводе с латыни — сплетение) содержит оригинальные философские воззрения автора, выраженные в форме мини-эссе о Ницше, Шпенглере, Достоевском, Розанове, о буддизме и китайской философии.

'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's intention to make St Cloud's his home.' Homer Wells' odyssey begins among the apple orchards of rural Maine. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, he strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder — a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory and a strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend...

When her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin, Ariel Behn becomes the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that thrusts her into the deadly center of international intrigue — and an age-old enigma that spans the centuries. Whoever assembles and interprets the cryptic clues of this ancient mystery will possess the power to control the fate of the world. What strange powers lie hidden within the manuscripts? Splashed against a lavish backdrop that sweeps from the rise of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall, «The Magic Circle» finds one woman standing at the center of it all: Ariel Behn. As she races across continents to reveal the dark secrets buried in her family's past, she begins to unlock the chilling truth of the coming millennium...

The contemporary story of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life. Returning to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of the past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret worlds of friendship, longing, and betrayal.

»Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!» is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved «Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe» (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie). Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery. Among the colorful cast of characters are: Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberant college roommate, who is everything that Dena is not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and will do everything short of signing autographs for her; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner, of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal, talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over them all through the radio show that she broadcast from her home in the 1940s Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace, his partner in tabloid television Several doctors, all of them taken with — and almost taken in by-Dena There are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.

Австрийская писательница Ингеборг Бахман прожила недолгую жизнь, но ее замечательные произведения — стихи и проза, — переведенные на многие языки, поставили ее в ряд выдающихся писателей XX века. Роман `Малина`, написанный от первого лица, это взволнованный рассказ о незаурядной женщине, оказавшейся в неразрешимом конфликте со своим временем, со своим возлюбленным и сама с собой. Один критик сказал об этом произведении, что в нем отразились все бедствия и катастрофы XX века.

Во второй том избранных произведений современного французского писателя Фредерика Тристана (родился в 1931) вошли два романа — «Мастерская несбывшихся грез» и «Героические злоключения Бальтазара Кобера». «Мастерская несбывшихся грез» — это вымышленная автобиография молодого человека, который волею судеб и обстоятельств затянут в водоворот загадочных событий, путешествуя из страны в страну от приключения к приключению, он встречается с разными людьми, и неизвестными, и знаменитыми, той таинственной и мрачной эпохи... «Героические злоключения Бальтазара Кобера» — это одновременно плутовской роман, история необыкновенных приключений, рассказ о любви и философская иносказательная повесть, действие которой происходит в последние годы XVI века, клокочущие религиозными распрями, озаренные отсветом костров инквизиции. Молодой человек, наделенный сверхъестественными способностями, совершает эзотерическое путешествие по лабиринтам духа.

»Triple» is the riveting story of the most successful espionage coup — and best-kept secret — of this century. It is 1968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months — an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course, unless someone as improbable as the plan can be found to steal it... Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest, and quietest, hijacking in history. Against him are the Russian KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremist Fedayeen. With him is a half-English, half-Arab young woman of uncertain allegiance, who discovers Dickstein's Achilles heel.

Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a business partner. And to enforce the threat all the Princess's best runners are being wantonly destroyed — shot by a bolt. The only person she can turn to is Kit, but he has problems of his own. His fiance Danielle appears to have changed her mind. And the old Fielding-Allardeck feud has once again violently intensified. Wherever he goes, the champion jockey seems to attract bloodshed...

Роман немецкого писателя Штефана Хейма «Хроники царя Давида» — это оригинальная, ироничная версия хорошо знакомых библейских сюжетов. Проходят тысячелетия, медленно течет время, рушатся царства и храмы, история обрастает красивыми легендами. Однако, констатирует автор, как просто подправить историю, а порой и вовсе переписать ее по заказу. В основу книги положен конфликт между творческой личностью и тоталитарной государственной машиной. Как сохранить человеку в этой борьбе свое достоинство, отстоять право говорить правду? На какие компромиссы с собственной совестью предстоит ему идти, какую высокую цену платить... Несмотря на серьезность и глобальность поставленных проблем, книга полна блестящего юмора, написана легким, изящным языком.

From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines. It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy. An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets. For the West, Russia is a basket case. But for Igor Komarov, one-time army sergeant who has risen to leadership of the right-wing UPF party, the chaos is made to order. As he waits in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, his striking voice rings out over the airwaves offering the roiling masses hope at last — not only for law, order, and prosperity, but for restoring the lost greatness of their land. Who is this man with the golden tongue who is so quickly becoming the promise of a Russia reborn? A document stolen from party headquarters and smuggled to Washington and London sends nightmare chills through those who remember the past, for this Black Manifesto is pure Mein Kampf in a country with frightening parallels to the Germany of the Weimar Republic. Officially the West can do nothing, but in secret a group of elder statesmen sends the only person who can expose the truth about Komarov into the heart of the inferno. Jason Monk, ex-CIA and «the best damn agent-runner we ever had», had sworn he would never return to Moscow, but one name changes his mind. Colonel Anatoli Grishin, the KGB officer who tortured and murdered four of Monk's agents after they had been betrayed by Aldrich Ames, is now Komarov's head of security. Monk has a dual mission: to stop Komarov, whatever it takes, and to prepare the way for an icon worthy of the Russian people. But he has a personal mission as well: to settle the final score with Grishin. To do this he must stay alive — and the forces allied against him are ruthless, the time frighteningly short....

Автор — крупнейший представитель индейской литературы США, лауреат премии Пулитцера 1968 г. Истинный мастер слова, в своих произведениях он выступает самобытным продолжателем мистической традиции коренных американцев. В настоящий сборник включены: повесть «Путь к Горе Дождей» и литературно-художественный цикл «В присутствии Солнца: собрание щитов». В приложении публикуется пиктографический ряд и текст одной из летописей родного племени Момадэя — кайова.

An outstanding storyteller, Susan Howatch has created a novel of spirituality and morality where the loyalties and passions of four people are played out against their dedication to religion and the path of right.

»The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels». So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they «dream on» in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany. «Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice». — Time «Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book». — Los Angeles Times «Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity». — Cosmopolitan

Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in «London Transports» will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away—and yet so familiar...Where having an affair with a married man brings one woman to a turning point...Where another finds that looking for an apartment to share can be a risky business...Where nosing into a secretary's life can have shocking results...Where a dress designer just had a god-awful day...And where Maeve Binchy captures the beat of every woman's heart.

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields — a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes — even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with «lunacy and sorrow»; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries — with more than ten million copies in print — this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: «In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases».