Самые неоднозначные и популярные произведения знаменитого Олдоса Хаксли. Работы, ставшие своеобразным интеллектуальным манифестом для поклонников психоделической культуры бурных шестидесятых. Ими восхищались Карлос Кастанеда и Тимоти Лири, Кен Кизи и Джим Моррисон. Они повлияли на умы сотен тысяч «сердитых молодых людей», искавших новый смысл бытия. Их смысл и суть — поиски идеальных путей расширения сознания.
Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. Much of the psychological struggle which the novel's protagonist, Jack Duluoz, undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated.
Tells the story of an ugly old man who has gone unloved for too long, but a change comes over him as he begins more and more relationships with women.
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his…