Sergej Machonin Books

Стихи, включенные в этот сборник, появились на свет среди снегов и тайги, как ростки воскресающей человеческой души. После девяти лет золотых и угольных забоев Колымы Шаламов в конце 1946 года чудом попадает на фельдшерские курсы, и это спасает ему жизнь. Работая в маленьком поселке лесорубов на ключе Дусканья, он записал свои первые колымские стихи. Сборник "Колымские тетради" сформирован из шести книг стихов: "Синяя тетрадь", "Сумка почтальона", "Лично и доверительно", "Златые горы", "Кипрей", "Высокие широты".

Kniha o Leopoldu Trepperovi,polském tajném agentovi židovského původu.

Sent to a remote village for the duration of the war, two children devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to pain and sentiment. They steal, kill, blackmail and survive; others - the cobbler, the harelipped girl who craves love, the children's parents - are sucked into war's brutal maelstrom.

Mimořádně osobitá, vyzývavá, myšlenkově vyhraněná próza, osobní příběh Sergeje Machonina (1918–1995), kritika a překladatele. Kniha je rozdělena do tří dílů (Prostějov, Velké a malé dějiny, Záznamy), z nichž každý je ještě členěn do menších úseků. Nejrozsáhlejší je díl první, věnovaný mladým létům v hanácké metropoli, v němž autor zálibně kreslí rodinné prostředí, dobovou atmosféru a životní styl probudilého malého města. Druhý díl zabírá hledání příčin, pro které autor uvěřil v možnost uskutečnění snu o spravedlivější společnosti. Vše je soustředěno k nesentimentálnímu popisu onoho procesu, jímž se zralý muž prodíral ze svých iluzí k vnímání světa už „jiným“ rozumem a „jinýma“ očima. Třetí díl je souborem dopisů, deníkových zápisků a publicistických článků, vztahujících se k době pochartovní a polistopadové...

Mohutná válečná epopej bojů o Stalingrad. Kniha vznikala bezprostředně po dlouhé a vysilující bitvě o Stalingrad, v letech 1943 - 1944, a v roce 1948, kdy vyšel tento svazek, dosáhla v ČSR již pěti vydání. Vyšlo v edici Boje, sv. 5.

An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charriere, nicknamed Papillon, was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he made his first break for freedom, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. He was recaptured and put into solitary confinement but his spirit remained untamed: over thirteen years he made nine incredible escapes, including from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. This edition of Papillon, one of the greatest adventure stories ever told, includes an exclusive new essay by Howard Marks.

Exploring themes of innocence, perversion, and obsession, the narrative follows Abel Tiffauges as he transforms from a submissive schoolboy to an "ogre" within the Nazi regime at Kaltenborn. This gripping tale delves into the unsettling depths of fascism, offering a harrowing yet captivating perspective. As Abel confronts his mystic fate amid the crumbling Third Reich, the story maintains a spellbinding intensity that resonates with readers, making it a significant literary achievement recognized by the Prix Goncourt.

A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt she's never known in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed.

“Stark . . . the story of how one falsely accused convict and his fellow prisoners survived or perished in an arctic slave labor camp after the war.”—Time From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges,sentenced to the waking nightmare of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is reduced to a bowl of gruel and a rare cigarette, hope and dignity prevail. This powerful novel of fact is a scathing indictment of Communist tyranny, and an eloquent affirmation of the human spirit. The prodigious works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, including his acclaimed The Gulag Archipelago, have secured his place in the great tradition of Russian literary giants. Ironically, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is the only one of his works permitted publication in his native land. Praise for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich “Cannot fail to arouse bitterness and pain in the heart of the reader. A literary and political event of the first magnitude.”—New Statesman “Both as a political tract and as a literary work, it is in the Doctor Zhivago category.”—Washington Post “Dramatic . . . outspoken . . . graphically detailed . . . a moving human record.”—Library Journal

Rilke's haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales.