検索キーワード： 形而上学・幻想

Маленький Сёмка, одиннадцатилетний сын переселенцев в Сибирь, умерших в дороге от тифа, сбегает из барака, чтобы вернуться домой в село Белое. Люди помогают ему: указывают дорогу, кормят, переправляют через реку. По пути Сёмка прибивается к пожилому беглому каторжнику, которого зовёт дедушкой.

Жил да был в итальянском городе Врезе синьор Бьянки. Работа у него была очень беспокойная. Каждую неделю шесть дней из семи он ездил по всей Италии. Он отправлялся на запад и на восток, на юг и на север, и опять туда же - и так, включая субботу.

…Ничто не изменилось на всем пространстве совести, пока писались эти строки. От нее несло гнилостностью и глиной. Далеко, далеко, с того ее края, мерцала березка, и, как упавшая серьга, обозначался в болотце продав. Вырываясь из зала наружу, падали полосы света на коночный пол, под скамейки.

Действие романа происходит в то тяжелое время, когда на долю России разом выпали все испытания: Первая мировая и Гражданская войны, отречение царя, революция. Роман Бориса Пастернака - о судьбе его поколения, ставшего свидетелем, участником и жертвой этого безумия.

Удивительно теплый, добрый и светлый рассказ Николая Дмитриевича Телешова о том, что хотя бы раз в году каждый из нас может ненадолго стать самым настоящим волшебником и подарить праздник, сказку и радость другим людям.

В 1932 - 1939 годы Пастернак усиленно работает над романом "Записки Патрика", который был для него продолжением начавшейся в 1917 году работы по созданию "большой прозы". Судить о замысле этого произведения крайне сложно, так как рукопись сгорела в Переделкине зимой 1941-1942 годов.

Prisoner 43-1-12 contends with the voices of her past, present, and future in the war-altered world of Illirium. From a ranch outside a rural town, to a prison formed from city ruins, and a wilderness marked by supernatural encounters, There Was Music explores the struggle between identity and the cost of survival, the power of music, and the hope of healing.

The Department of Defense pays a visit to an inventor, "Oh...What do you got there?” they say. The inventor replies excited, "I just invented this anti-gravity device”! (The inventor and his invention later go missing, and he stops posting publicly.) Media (on command from the elites): "Too bad we can't verify these results. There was no anti-gravity device; it was most likely a weather balloon". Before an anti-gravity engine is created, we must first discover how gravity works.

While serving a many-year sentence for manslaughter, Tony meets a wise mentor Ricky, who teaches him the true laws of the universe. During his out-of-body experience, Tony has the opportunity to see all creation. Just before his release, Tony is given a precious gift - his mentor’s handwritten books, packed with years’ worth of Ricky’s ideas and insights. An otherwise average person, after being released, Tony intends to live a normal life. But what stands for the "norm" in "normal"?

Hell hath no fury like an angry god of the underworld. Persephone is missing. When Hades fails to locate his wife, he takes drastic measures. He hires the Montague & Strong Detective Agency to locate her, bring her back to him, and most importantly, find out who dared to kidnap his wife. Now, Monty and Strong must uncover a plot to overthrow Hades and steal the underworld, return Persephone to her husband unharmed, and prevent a god from unleashing his wrath and starting a celestial battle royale. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s going to be close.

Joey Whitmore longs to escape her dead-end world. Facing a midlife crisis at age 42 and still living with her mother, getting fired from yet another job is the proverbial last straw. So when a fae trickster in human guise offers a chance at changing her history, she figures there’s nothing left to lose. Though skeptical of his magic, Joey accepts the sly prince’s enchanted hourglass and begins a reckless journey back in time. But as she tries to act as her own fairy godmother and reverse her mistakes, her blundering interference causes a chain of catastrophic consequences.

Michael James Lewis, a 44-year-old geophysicist, lives a life most would envy. Handsome, well-paid, and well-traveled, what could be the problem? First, he can't tell anyone about his psychic ability. He can't admit that he can see horrifying visions of disturbing future disasters through a kaleidoscope.

Due dei racconti più rappresentativi del movimento letterario del Connettivismo, due storie eccezionali, che vi proietteranno in mondi lontani e bizzarri, al limite dell'assurdo, ma scientificamente rigorosi, facendovi staccare dalla quotidianità. La meccanica quantistica e l'orizzonte degli eventi di un buco nero sono i protagonisti di queste due storie ai limiti dell'universo. Marco Moretti, Giovanni De Matteo e Sandro Battisti sono tra i più attivi autori del Connettivismo (due di loro ne sono anche i fondatori).

What if all brain disorders were treatable? Few would lament the passing of dementia or autism, but what if the twisted mind of a sex offender or murderer could be cured, too? Or how about a terrorist or maybe a political extremist? What if we could all be "corrected"? Welcome to the Condition: The Complete Trilogy, a series of near-future fiction novels on the cusp of becoming a frightening reality.

Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Venus offers him both the chance at heroism he's dreamt of, and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown.

The best-selling author of Second Nature, Illumination Night and Turtle Moon now offers her most fascinating and tantalizingly accomplished novel yet -- a winning tale that amply confirms Alice Hoffman's reputation not only as a genius of the vivid scene and unforgettable character but as one of America's most captivating storytellers.

When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into "normal" society.

Was ist notwendig, um auf seine eigenen Wünsche zu hören? Eine ganze Menge Vertrauen und die Fähigkeit, dem eigenen Herzen zu lauschen. Angelica versucht genau diesen Weg zu gehen, doch ihr Kopf macht ihr das Leben nicht so einfach. Glücklicherweise überredet sie ihr Herz zu einer abenteuerlichen Reise nach Sizilien, auf der sie Unglaubliches erlebt. All das bereitet sie auf eine Herausforderung vor: Ihren eigenen Weg bedingungslos zu gehen, um die Welt zum Positiven zu verändern. Ist sie dazu bereit?

Lo scenario inizialmente serale (topos del fantastico) è complice perfetto dell'ambiguità che lo scrittore vuole creare. Non è caso la novella è collocata in questo momento del giorno, che favorisce una sorta di dormiveglia, durante il quale è difficile individuare la linea di demarcazione tra realtà e fantasia: "la notte incombe sullo spirito, conquista la fantasia e concede all'immaginazione le più strane visioni" afferma il narratore-protagonista di Garofani rossi.

"La tana" è uno degli ultimi racconti di Franz Kafka, scritto durante la sua permanenza a Berlino nel 1923, all'incirca sei mesi prima della morte. Il racconto narra dei continui disperati sforzi intrapresi da un protagonista - per metà umano e per metà animale - di costruirsi un'abitazione perfetta, così da potersi proteggere efficacemente dai suoi nemici invisibili. In tutto il testo (rimasto incompiuto) vi è l'idea ossessiva di riuscir a realizzare una complessa opera architettonica, e dalla paura d'esser attaccato da potenziali nemici i quali però non danno mai prova d'esistenza reale.