Attilio Veraldi Livres

Wilbur Smith's second Ballantyne novel - another rattling good read.

The first novel of the trilogy introducing Bernard Samson and the rest of the bickering, in-fighting intelligence community in which he is a much put-upon member. After five years of desk work, Bernie finds himself ordered back into the field.

New edition of the perennial cult classic with a specially commissioned introduction by Irvine Welsh

Consacré à la violence qui déchire une société sans amour mais ivre de sexualité, ce livre a imposé d'emblée Selby parmi les auteurs majeurs de la seconde moitié de ce siècle. D'autres œuvres ont suivi : la Geôle, le Démon, Retour à Brooklyn, toutes parues dans notre " Domaine étranger ". Last Exit reste le point d'orgue de ce Céline américain acharné à nous livrer la vision apocalyptique d'un rêve devenu cauchemar. Où la solitude, la misère et l'angoisse se conjuguent comme pour mieux plonger le lecteur dans ce qui n'est peut-être que le effet de sa propre existence. Implacablement.

Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit.

Quattro degli otto racconti (gli altri sono raccolti in Blues di Bay City), composti tra il 1935 e il 1941, di cui Raymond Chandler era gelosissimo e che non volle pubblicare in vita. Uscirono infatti solo postumi, nel 1964. Fece di tutto per dimenticarli, ma non certo perché fossero meno belli degli altri pubblicati. Anzi, li tenne segretissimi perché erano i più belli. In questi racconti si assiste tra l’altro alla nascita del celebre Philip Marlowe. All’inizio è un detective senza nome, poi si comincia a chiamare Carmady, quindi cambia nome e finalmente viene battezzato Marlowe, l’uomo che compie il suo lavoro con pena e disgusto, l’investigatore che ha reso celebre il suo inventore.

The jet was a solid eighteen-inch column, a pillar of brown mud and yellow gravel and sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half-filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall to wall with the movement of the ship. It was like some monstrous jellyfish which each second gathered weight and strength. The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer him the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. Destroy Johnny is the old mans implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for his own foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goaland Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder...

Publié en 1968, Couples explore, de manière crue et subtile, la sexualité comme métaphore existentielle, les tensions cachées, les contradictions et les névroses de la classe moyenne américaine des années soixante dans un petit village prospère du New England, Tarbox. Ici, entre un match de tennis en double et un dîner chez des amis, entre un défi au basket et une conversation futile, la vie s'écoule paresseusement. Ce faux paradis suburbain, apparemment innocent, cache cependant un réseau complexe d'adultères et de séductions collectives impliquant les conjoints de dix couples d'origines diverses. Livre culte, devenu un classique moderne de l'érotisme, Couples propose une critique incisive d'une société éternellement insatisfaite et en quête impossible de l'absolu.

Attilio Veraldi (1925), taliansky novinár a plodný prekladateľ z angličtiny a škandinávskych jazykov, sa svojou detektívkárskou tvorbou hlási k americkej tvrdej škole, tzv. „hardboiled-school". Podvody, surovosť a vraždy, to všetko sa v týchto dvoch detektívnych príbehoch spája s peniazmi. Vidina ľahko nadobudnutého bohatstva je hybnou silou konania väčšiny postáv a medzi inými aj neapolského advokáta Sasu lovineho, spoločného protagonistu oboch detektívok, Iovine sa s obľubou dáva do služieb „veľkých zvierat" a za riadnu odmenu je ochotný vystaviť nebezpečenstvu aj vlastný život. Zahráva sa s ohňom, kľučkuje, vynakladá všetok svoj dôvtip a všetku svoju diplomaciu, len aby aj on niečo vylovil z mútnych vôd. Je schopný všetkého, ale iba po istú hranicu. Neoplýva zbytočnou sentimentalitou a jeho zbraňou je výlučne intelekt. Kým v Dôslednom chlapíkovi ide o rozsiahle machinácie s valutami, vo Veľkých peniazoch Sasá lovine pátra po dcére najbohatšieho Neapolčana, ktorá ušla z domu aj s dokumentmi, čo môžu skompromitovať jej otca a tomu, kto ich získa, vynesú päť miliárd lír.