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.
Książka jest laureatką Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Solo to fascynująca opowieść stuletniego Ulricha, który ociemniały siedzi samotnie w fotelu i podróżuje we wspomnieniach, płynnie przekraczając granice czasu i przestrzeni. Jak w kalejdoskopie zmieniają się obrazy z Bułgarii, Gruzji, Niemiec i USA, a z nimi przypływają wspomnienia - burzliwa polityką, niespełniona miłość do muzyki, utracone uczucie, pasja do chemii. Zanim stracił wzrok, przeczytał w jakimś piśmie o papugach mówiących językiem wymarłego plemienia. Językoznawcom nie udało się jednak zapisać drogocennego narzecza ? wyczerpane przeżyciami ptaki zmarły. Starzec czuje, że tak jak one nosi w sobie szczątki dziedzictwa czasu, lecz zanadto ucierpiał, żeby je komuś przekazać. W samotności przygląda się swemu życiu, którego wspomnienie jest jedynym dowodem istnienia.
?Zanim stracił wzrok, przeczytał w jakimś piśmie, że grupa badaczy napotkała stado papug mówiących językiem plemienia, które wyginęło wskutek niedawnej katastrofy. Zdumieni tym odkryciem, zamknęli papugi w klatkach i wysłali do swojego kraju, żeby językoznawcy zapisali szczątki zaginionego języka. Ale ptaki tyle już wycierpiały, przypatrując się zagładzie plemienia, że nie przeżyły podróży.
Starzec czuje silną więź między sobą a tymi papugami. Ma wrażenie, że tak jak one nosi w sobie szczątki pewnego dziedzictwa, lecz sam zanadto ucierpiał, żeby coś komuś przekazać.
Właśnie dlatego znów przeczesuje własne życie. Nie ma majątku ani spadkobierców, a jeśli w ogóle posiada coś, co mógłby zostawić potomności, to tylko jakąś przydenną, trudną do odnalezienia gmatwaninę.?
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"Przedziwna książka. I poetycka, i brutalna, pełna metafizyki jak z traktatu filozoficznego, i kontemplująca banał ludzkiej egzystencji. Wzniosłość miesza się tu z prozą życia, poszukiwanie absolutu i wielkości kończy się przejmującym doświadczeniem klęski i daremności istnienia - objawieniem, który daje spokój. Precyzyjny styl Dasgupty nabiera gwałtowności i rozmachu niczym porywający utwór muzyczny. Kolejne etiudy przenoszą akcję z Sofii do Berlina, z Gruzji do Stanów Zjednoczonych, brawurowo wirując między światami. Wyobraźnia Dasgupty nie zna żadnych granic".
Małgorzata Rejmer
"Fascynująca książka (...). Przyprawia o zawrót głowy, niosąc czytelnika galopem przez manowce europejskiej historii. Stylistycznie wyrafinowana i niezapomniana w sposobie, w jaki mówi o człowieczeństwie. Nuci melodie życia wiedzionego solo, splatając je w dysharmonijną symfonię kondycji ludzkiej (.). To ten rodzaj 'filharmonicznej' powieści, który przypomina nam, że zawsze będziemy potrzebować niezwykłych opowieści o zwykłym ludzkim życiu"
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When people use the adjective 'Kafkaesque', it is The Trial they have in mind - the nightmarish world of Joseph K., where the rules are hidden from even the highest officials, and any help there may be comes from unexpected sources.
K. is never told what he is on trial for, and when he says he is innocent, he is immediately asked 'innocent of what?' Is he perhaps on trial for his innocence? Could he have freed himself from the proceedings by confessing his guilt as a human being? Has the trial been set up because he is incapable of admitting his guilt, and hence his humanity?
The Trial is a chilling and at the same time blackly amusing tale that maintains, to the very end, a constant, relentless atmosphere of disorientation and quirkiness. Superficially the subject-matter is bureaucracy, but the story's great strength is its description of the effect on the life and mind of Josef K. It is in the last resort a description of the absurdity of 'normal' human nature.
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The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham.
'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore.
The subsequent continuity of these six main characters, as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions, is interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature. In pure stream-of-consciousness style, Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives, each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy.
The Waves is her searching exploration of individual and collective identity, and the observations and emotions of life, from the simplicity and surging optimism of youth to the vacancy and despair of middle-age.
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social, psychological and philosophical relationships.
At the same time he shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers, completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of the modern malaise.
It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century European literature.
The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's discovery, in the desert, of a small boy from another planet - the Little Prince of the title - and his stories of intergalactic travel, while on the other hand it is a thought-provoking allegory of the human condition.
First published in 1943, the year before the author's death in action, this translation contains Saint-Exupery's delightful illustrations.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing "A la recherche du temps perdu". It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age.
Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.
This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories includes favourites such as Youth, a modern epic of the sea; The Secret Sharer, a thrilling psychological drama; An Outpost of Progress, a blackly comic prelude to Heart of Darkness; Amy Foster, a moving story of a shipwrecked, alienated Pole; and The Lagoon and Karain, two exotic, exciting Malay tales. Il Conde and The Tale are subtle portrayals of bewildered outrage; An Anarchist and The Informer are sardonic depictions of revolutionaries; and Prince Roman is a tale of magnificent, doomed heroism set in Conrad's native Poland during the Uprising of 1831. Both those new to Conrad's work and those familiar with his novels will delight in this wide-ranging collection.
What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances.
A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design.
Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose.
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing "la recherche du temps perdu". It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of redemption for a sober and secular age.
Scott Moncrieff's delightful translation was for many years the only access to Proust in English. A labour of love that took him nearly as many years as Proust spent writing the original. Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style. It remains a justly famous classic of translation.
"Jane Eyre" ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester. However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.
One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.
Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae.
The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean’s flight through the Paris sewers.
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First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters.
Lord Jim explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit. In this novel, Conrad draws on his background as Polish emigré, as well as his first-hand experience as a seaman, to experiment radically with the presentation of human frailty and doubt in the modern world.
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest.
His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.
Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator.
Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.
From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.
The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.
De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde's literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898. This collection also includes the essay The Soul of Man under Socialism and two of his Platonic dialogues, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.
Wybór Zofii to powieść opublikowana w 1979 roku, która przyniosła autorowi, amerykańskiemu pisarzowi Wiliamowi Styronowi, światowa sławę.
Opowiada historię pełnego namiętności trójkąta: Zofii - polskiej imigrantki, Natana - amerykańskiego Żyda oraz Stingo - początkującego pisarza z Południa, który jest jednocześnie narratorem.
Bolesna przeszłość kładzie się cieniem na teraźniejszości i popycha bohaterów do określonych działań, a uczucia, które łączą te osoby, prowadzą do szekspirowskiego wręcz, tragicznego finału.
Czyta Zbigniew Moskal
Twoje życie, Twój czas, tylko od Ciebie zależy jak go wykorzystasz.
Książka napisana przez zwykłego człowieka, takiego jak Ty, skierowana zwłaszcza do ludzi młodych, zastanawiających się "co ja tu robię?".
To studium samotności młodego, zagubionego człowieka, próbującego odnaleźć się w szarym, a niekiedy i pięknym świecie.
Książka na pograniczu thrillera i dramatu psychologicznego ? historia dysfunkcyjnej rodziny rozgrywająca się pośród elit manhattańskiego Upper East Side.
Anna Wietzman wyjeżdża z ukochanym mężem Jessiem, ambitnym brytyjskim dyplomatą, do Nowego Jorku. Życie na placówce okazuje się znacznie ciekawsze niż to, które pozostawili w Londynie. Nieodłącznym elementem nowojorskiej rzeczywistości Anny staje się Nancy, wiecznie snująca intrygi macocha Jessiego, znana bywalczyni salonów i filantropka. Pewnego dnia w domu Wietzmanów dochodzi do pozornie niegroźnego incydentu z udziałem ich syna. Im bardziej zacieśniają się stosunki Nancy i Jessiego, tym gorsze rzeczy przytrafiają się jego żonie?
Współczesna wersja "Dziecka Rosemary" ? trzymająca w napięciu fabuła z punktem kulminacyjnym, który rzuci was na kolana.
Daily Mail
Historia kobiety, której wyśnione życie zamieniło się w mroczną walkę o wszystko, co kochała.
?The Times?
Shireen Jilla jest dziennikarką ?Evening Standard? i ?The Sunday Times?. Jej imię oznacza po persku słodycz. Podobnie jak jej bohaterka, Jilla spędziła wiele lat na emigracji. Obecnie mieszka w Londynie, gdzie pracuje nad drugą książką.
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