Polecamy całą serię najlepszych książek psychologicznych. Znajdziecie tu najciekawsze i najbardziej popularne poradniki i podręczniki. Setki tytułów, do których chętnie się wraca. Polecamy szczególnie książkę psychiatry Viktora Frankla, która opisuje jego traumatyczne przeżycia z obozów koncentracyjnych podczas II wojny światowej oraz podstawy jego metody leczenia zaburzeń psychicznych. To jedna z najbardziej wpływowych książek w literaturze psychiatrycznej. Ponadto proponujemy również słynną książkę autorstwa Cialdini Robert B.To znakomita książka z dziedziny psychologii społecznej, prezentująca techniki wywierania wpływ na ludzi.
Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the massacre's wake, this sleepy suburban neighborhood declares its saints, brands its demons, and moves on. But for a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day, life remains permanently derailed. Four dramatically different characters tell their stories: Cheryl, who calmly narrates her own death; Jason, the boy no one knew was her husband, still marooned ten years later by his loss; Heather, the woman trying to love the shattered Jason; and Jason's father, Reg, whose rigid religiosity has separated him from nearly everyone he loves. Hey Nostradamus! is an unforgettable portrait of people wrestling with spirituality and with sorrow and its acceptance.
In 1979, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato—a novel about the Vietnam War—won the National Book Award. In this, his second work of fiction about Vietnam, O'Brien's unique artistic vision is again clearly demonstrated. Neither a novel nor a short story collection, it is an arc of fictional episodes, taking place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam and back home in America two decades later.
"Pogwarki z czasem" to książka utrzymana w stylu groteski. Wiele w niej przerysowań, kpiny, absurdu, szpilek wbijanych w ludzkie słabostki i humorystycznych powiedzeń.
Bohater książki jest osobą samotną. Samotną z wyboru.. Mógłby zamieszkać u córki, lecz tego nie chce. Uważa, że jego fascynacja miastem szybko by wygasła. Miejskie tempo życia zaczęłoby go męczyć i denerwować. To mogłoby popsuć jego relacje z rodziną. A tego nie chce.Woli pozostać na swoim, na ojcowiźnie - z dziedzictwem regionalnych tajemnic, rodzinnych wspomnień oraz grobami najbliższych nieopodal.
Nie kryje, że samotność mu doskwiera. Ale szybko ją oswoił i nauczył się z nią sobie radzić. Robi to w sposób niezwykły - zajmująco, ciekawie. A jakże urzekającą optyką patrzy na życie i przemijanie..." Pogwarki z czasem" mogą być więc interesującą osnową do snucia refleksji wiążących się ze światem doświadczeń i doznań indywidualnych.
Warto podkreślić i to, że książka wzbudza emocje - miejscami śmieszy, bawi i rozwesela. Może kogoś z mniejszym poczuciem humoru nawet lekko dotknie, ale - miejmy nadzieję - że tylko na chwilę.
Opowiadania zawarte w książce powstały dzięki niczym nieskrępowanej literackiej wyobraźni autora. Podczas lektury czujemy się zamknięci w świecie, w którym wszystko jest możliwe; w którym to, co znane i oswojone, może okazać się śmiertelnie niebezpieczne, wrogie. Bohaterowie poruszają się w onirycznej, wypełnionej strzępami snów rzeczywistości.Na kartach książki spotykamy między innymi mężczyznę oskarżonego o wyimaginowane przestępstwo, bohatera balansującego na granicy jawy i przerażającego koszmaru, uczestników okrutnej zabawy, w której ważyć się będą ludzkie losy, oraz małżeństwo uczestniczące w perwersyjnej terapii.Wszyscy próbują odnaleźć siebie, odzyskać utraconą wolność lub znaleźć kogoś, komu będą mogli zaufać. Książkę rozpoczynają i kończą drabble opowiadania liczące dokładnie sto słów. We wszystkich historiach autorowi udało się w sposób niezwykle sugestywny opisać piekło człowieka poddanego absurdom współczesnego świata. I mimo że jesteśmy porażeni niemocą stworzonych przez autora postaci, chcemy im towarzyszyć, gdyż dostrzegamy w ich losach nasze osobiste doświadczenia.
Najlepsza powieść Witkiewicza!Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz napisał w latach dwudziestych genialną powieść antycypującą filozoficzną istotę dwudziestowiecznych totalizmów zanim jeszcze komunizm najgroźniejszy z nich ujawnił światu swe niedostrzegalne naówczas mechanizmy. Witkiewicz opisuje karierę malajskiego proroka nazwiskiem Murti-Bing, który głosi nową wiarę stanowiącą jakby kwintesencję obezwładniania istoty ludzkiej. Podstawowym elementem rozprzestrzeniania tej wiary jest mała pigułka rozdawana przez fanatycznych głosicieli tej wiary, jak dziś cytaty z Mao Tse-tunga, którą należy połknąć. Połknięta zmienia światopogląd i pozwala na bezbolesne, nawet entuzjastyczne zaakceptowanie każdej zbrodni i każdego szaleństwa przedstawianych jako sprawiedliwość i mądrość.
The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure.
The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished.
Sebold creates a heaven that's calm and comforting, a place whose residents can have whatever they enjoyed when they were alive -- and then some. But Susie isn't ready to release her hold on life just yet, and she intensely watches her family and friends as they struggle to cope with a reality in which she is no longer a part. To her great credit, Sebold has shaped one of the most loving and sympathetic fathers in contemporary literature.
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther's life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women's aspirations seriously.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and descent into mental illness, and has become a modern classic. The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide.
The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.
The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance.
Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul.
'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times
Oscar is ill and no one, especially not his parents, will tell him what he already knows: that he is dying. Granny Rose, the oldest of the 'ladies in pink' who visit Oscar and his fellow patients, makes friends with him. She suggests that he play a game: to pretend that each of the following twelve days is a decade of his imagines future. One day equals ten years, and every night Oscar writes a letter to God telling him about his life.
A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts
Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free. But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Regarded by Edith Wharton as among her best novels, Summer caused a sensation in 1917 with its honest depiction of a young woman overturning the rules of her day and attempting to live on her own terms.
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his three great novels, draws fascinating conclusions that make it feel strangely complete.
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction
Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror 'Little Fable' to the off-kilter humour of 'Investigations of a Dog', and from the elaborate waking nightmare of 'Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of 'The Burrow', where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent.
Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"'
Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico city, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control.
'A narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums' Allen Ginsberg
Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy.
'Pic', or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him. Together they hitch to New York City and, eventually, all the way to California, encountering hardship, kindness, music, love and danger as they go.
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the challenge. Hardy's fearless exploration of sexual and social relationships and his prophetic critique of marriage scandalised the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist.
Wyrusz z nami do krainy snów nie zawsze spokojnych, gdzie deszcz spada niekoniecznie z nieba. Jeśli masz wystarczająco wiele odwagi, przekonaj się, o czym może śnić czarownica, dlaczego demony nie miewają snów i jak czasem romans ze słodkiego, sennego marzenia staje się koszmarnym dramatem.
"Deszczowe sny" to zbiór opowiadań różnych gatunkowo. Mrożące krew w żyłach opowieści na pograniczu jawy i snu, namiętne pocałunki przy akompaniamencie szumu lejącej się z nieba wody, obezwładniający strach, szybsze bicie serca i sny, które w deszczową noc nie są tylko fantazją umysłu, lecz… rzeczywistością.
Daj się porwać zapierającej dech w piersiach przygodzie, gdzieś na granicy realizmu i iluzji. Gwarantujemy, że będzie deszczowo i tajemniczo, odrobinę fantastycznie, romantycznie, wesoło, a miejscami przerażająco. Ale nie bój się. To tylko sen…
Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a heartwarming new novel about renewal and friendship.
This is the story of a man named Kang Dae-su. His whole life is a miracle, rising from poverty to running a successful construction company. In his twilight years, Kang is diagnosed with a brain tumour. He returns to his childhood home of Cherry Hill. He acquires a crumbling old house in which to retreat from the world, yet the residents of the town have other plans. They seem hell-bent on intruding on Kang’s private property. But who does the house, and Cherry Hill, really belong to? Is it owned by the construction company who is trying to rejuvenate the neighbourhood? Or does it belong to the residents who have used the land to play, think, walk, love and explore for generations? And how is the bitter and despondent Kang’s childhood tied to this magical place?
Y llegamos a un lugar que, aún a día de hoy, no sabría muy bien cómo definir. Quizá es ese sitio al que te trasladas cuando suena el timbre del recreo, o allí donde vamos al cerrar los ojos justo antes de soplar las velas, o el viento en el que flotamos al recibir uno de esos abrazos que nos sostienen el cuerpo, las dudas y los miedos...
¿Quién sabe? O quizá no era más que la parte trasera del armario en el que se había convertido mi vida: ahí donde se almacenan prendas que jamás volverás a ponerte pero que te da pena tirar.
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