Dirk van Gunsteren Livres

Diese Auswahl umfasst fünf Short Stories der Psychologin Patricia Highsmith, die eindrucksvoll zeigt, dass es für die Erkundung seelischer Untiefen keinen Mord braucht. Mit unerwarteten Wendungen und tiefen Einsichten ins Allzumenschliche beleuchtet der Erzählband eine besondere Facette der Autorin.

Situé de nos jours, en Ukraine, ce livre raconte les aventures d'un jeune écrivain juif américain - " Jonathan Safran Foer " - en quête de ses origines, et qui sillonne la région à la recherche des vestiges d'un mystérieux village détruit par les Nazis. Mais soudain le récit bascule, et nous voici projetés dans un autre monde : du 18 mars 1791 au 18 mars 1942, c'est la chronique terrible et fabuleuse d'un shtetl appelé Trachimbrod qui se déroule sous nos yeux - un shtetl qui n'est peut-être que la version légendaire du mystérieux village... Peuplé d'enfants trouvés, de rabbins kabbalistes, d'amoureux en proie à la fureur érotique, cet admirable roman s'inscrit dans une tradition où la bouffonnerie est souvent l'ultime expression du sacré. Mais c'est aussi un tour de force littéraire d'une stupéfiante modernité.

"For I believe that climate does thus react on man — as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and inspires. Henry David Thoreau's Walking began as a lecture in 1851 and ultimately appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1862, shortly after the author's death. The impassioned essay, which praises the merits of time spent in nature, has become one of the most influential works of the modern environmentalist movement. Thoreau's view of walking in nature as a self-reflective activity invites readers to embark on their own ramble in order to gain a "wild and dusky" self-knowledge unattainable elsewhere. Americans felt the pressures of a changing world even in the relatively slow-paced 1800s, and Thoreau proposed balancing social stress with unhurried wanderings in fields and woods. His writings, from Civil Disobedience to Walden, remain popular because of their enduring relevance, and Walking bears a special resonance for modern readers who may have become disconnected from the natural world.

Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers. And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money is pouring in. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.