Max Nemtsov Book order (chronological)

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity. ‘Suttree contains a humour that is Faulknerian in its gentle wryness, and a freakish imaginative flair reminiscent of Flannery O’Connor’ Times Literary Supplement ‘Suttree marks McCarthy’s closest approach to autobiography and is probably the funniest and most unbearably sad of his books’ Stanley Booth

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you with more questions than answers" (Barack Obama). 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 lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.

Nejsem ovšem tak pošetilý, abych kladl na stejnou úroveň zkušenost získanou vlivem mezkalinu či jiné drogy s poznáním konečného smyslu lidského života: Osvícení, Blažené vize. Domnívám se, že mezkalinový zážitek je jako „milost zdarma daná“, což není nezbytné ke spáse, ale může být nápomocné a hodné vděčného přijetí. Umožňuje nám vystoupit z běžného vnímání a uzřít svět bez podmíněností, jak se jeví přímo a nepodmíněně. Dvě základní eseje Aldouse Huxleyho, napsané v polovině 50. let, stojí u zrodu experimentálního hledání let 60., porušování tabu a nerespektování zakázaného. Staly se klíčovými díly pro výzkum účinků halucinogenních drog a kultovním čtením pro psychedelickou generaci. První esej zaznamenává účinky mezkalinu, který Huxley poprvé požil v roce 1953, a popisuje mystický stav mysli. Druhá se zaměřuje na podíl půstu a odloučenosti na získání podobné zkušenosti. Mystici a asketové všech věků nacházejí společný výchozí bod ve změně „vnitřního chemického prostředí“. Je zřejmé, že asketismus má dvojí motivaci: touha po odčinění hříchů a vědomí, že půst a uzavřené prostředí mohou vést k transcendentním zážitkům, které mohou být branou do ráje, ale i do pekel.

The classic autobiographical novel, “one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature” (Time), from acclaimed author Jack Kerouac “If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the book that is most representative of American life, I would nominate Desolation Angels.”—Dan Wakefield, The Atlantic Desolation Angels covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London. Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must “live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac.

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple Casanova.