Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way...
"Younger Brothers" - against the almighty Elder Brother. Seventeen-year-old hacker and his team are against the System. They are the kings of the Web, they are sure that they can do anything. But the System monitors each of us... And each of us can instantly fall into its claws. Freedom has long become a myth. People are pawns in the Great Game of Governments and Special Services. And everyone who wants to strike back at the System must be not only desperately brave, but also very, very smart......
Published in 1909, the famous book by Gertrude Stein marked the beginning of an era of bold experiments with literary form and language. The stories of three women from Bridgepoint are inspired by the ideas of modern artists. In the non-linear narrative of Good Anna, the reader will notice the influence of Cezanne, Stein’s friendship with Picasso inspired free syntax and open sexuality of the story of Melankte, the influence of Matisse is noticeable in The Quiet Lena. The books of Gertrude Stein are works not only of literature, but also of painting. Words, like paints, lie on a canvas, all...
The novel "Sports of the Gods" is dedicated to urban life of blacks in America. Their family was forced to leave the south, but life in the northern city was not what they imagined it was, and the family was falling apart....
At the beginning of the 20th century, works appeared in realistic US literature, which sharply critically portrayed the life of American society. The founder of this trend, whose representatives were called "mud rakers", was Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). In 1906, his novel “The Jungle” was published - about Chicago slaughterhouses. The novel was a success and made a lot of noise. Jack London called it "Uncle Tom's Cabin of Industrial Slavery." The fascinating plot did not hide or embellish the socially revealing character of the novel....
Edith Wharton - author of more than twenty novels and ten collections of short stories - the first woman writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Such works of Wharton, such as "Resident of Joy," "Ethan From," "The Age of Innocence," "The Fruit of the Tree," were included in the golden fund of American literature. The novel "The Age of Innocence" formed the basis of the film of the same name by Martin Scorsese, which received recognition and popularity. The confrontation of the individual and society, the clash of generally accepted moral principles and sincere deep feelings inevitably lead...
In My Anthony, Will Keser addresses the difficult life of immigrants and American immigrants in the vast expanses of the prairie. In fact, this is the prairie anthem, on which the themes of growing up heroes, friendship, adaptation in an alien environment, the role of women in society (in particular women from the poor) are superimposed. The novel is permeated with a feeling of longing - for the past, for the abandoned homeland, for unfulfilled expectations and the golden years of childhood....
The late 1820s and early 1830s, when Balzac entered the literature, was the period of the greatest flowering of the work of romanticism in French literature. The great novel in European literature before the arrival of Balzac had two main genres: a novel of personality - an adventurous hero or a self-deepening, lonely hero and a historical novel. Balzac departs from both the novel of personality and the historical novel of Walter Scott. He seeks to show the "individualized type", to give a picture of the whole society, the whole people, the whole of France. Not a legend about the past, but a...
Ignoring the time, Jack Breton crosses the parallel world to return Kate, a wife who was found raped and strangled in a lonely park nine years earlier. But in another stream of time, Kate marries her double John. And for one husband to remain Jack or John, he must die....
