検索キーワード： 形而上学・幻想

Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaic, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best.

« Comment puis-je laisser cette femme qui m'a tant aimé, qui m'a consolé, qui m'a fait des soupes et des moussakas, comment puis-je la laisser là ? » Dans « Les souvenirs », David Foenkinos traite avec beaucoup d'humour les moments graves d'une vie. Il sait comme personne trouver le détail qui enchante notre quotidien pour évoquer la vieillesse, le passage à la retraite, la vie conjugale. Tous les événements d'une vie qui forment les souvenirs. Loïc Corbery, de la Comédie-Française, donne vie avec délicatesse à ce récit sensible sur un sujet d'une gravité profonde et universelle.

Continuing the exciting adventures of The Celestine Prophecy and The Tenth Insight, this new book takes you to the snow-covered Himalayas, in search of the legendary Tibetan utopia of Shambhala. As you follow a child's instructions, are pursued by hostile Chinese agents, and look for a lost...

The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “A dyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt...

Crime and Punishment stands as one of the most penetrating psychological dramas ever written—a dark, relentless journey into the mind of a young man who believes he can outthink morality itself. Raskolnikov, trapped in the poverty-stricken streets of St. Petersburg and drowning in his own feverish theories, commits a desperate act that shatters every illusion he ever held about power, conscience, and destiny. In the days that follow, he discovers that the courts do not deal out the real punishment, but by the silent terror of his own soul.

Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world - and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.

An NPR Best Book of 2023 “Knausgaard is back, with a compulsively readable new novel.” —The Washington Post “The Wolves of Eternity, like some 19th-century Russian novel, wrestles with the great contraries: the materialist view and the religious, the world as cosmic accident versus...

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins begins with Mr. John Herncastle stealing a mysterious yellow diamond from the statue of a sacred Indian god while fighting with the British army in India. The diamond makes it way to back England after John Herncastle returns from his tour with the British army. The sacred diamond is bestowed to a young woman, Rachel Verinder, a relative of John Herncastle, on her 18th birthday.

In the long-awaited conclusion to the international bestselling Peaceful Warrior saga, Dan Millman takes us on an epic spiritual quest across the world as he searches for the link between everyday life and transcendent possibility. Picking up where his journey ended in Way of the Peaceful...

There is no crime to fit this sentence; there is no sentence to fit this crime... Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate’s words are echoed by the zealot Judas Iscariot only hours before history takes a bloody turn on a cross atop Golgotha on Calvary Hill. Two thousand years later, these words are found scrawled in blood in New York next to three crucified men hanging on a basement wall.

"The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins is a groundbreaking detective novel often regarded as the first of its kind in English literature. The story revolves around a priceless Indian diamond — the Moonstone — stolen from a Hindu temple and later presented to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That same night, the gem mysteriously disappears from Rachel's room, setting off a wild and complex investigation. Through multiple narrators, including the loyal servant Gabriel Betteredge and the eccentric Miss Clack, the narrative unfolds with twists, misunderstandings, and revelations.

FOR THE FIRST TIME UNABRIDGED IN AUDIO READ BY ALAN CUMMING and ANGUS KING WITH ARCHIVAL RECORDINGS FROM ALASDAIR GRAY HIMSELF 'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven...

'A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form' Sunday Times 'It's hard to think of a more recent novel that has sung so eloquently the joys of being alone' Guardian An inspirational classic from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a beautiful tale of...

If you have ever felt that reality is more flexible, more alive, and more responsive than most people admit, this book is for you. In St. Pete Academy of Real Magic: The Welcome Lecture, I invite you into a fictional world set in St. Petersburg, Florida that may not be fiction at all. I speak to you as if you are one of the first eight students enrolled in a yearlong private academy where the central lesson is simple and radical: you are the creator of your reality.

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe An artist inherits a hundred years of...

A hauntingly beautiful and radically disorienting tale by the International Booker Prize–nominated author of Eurotrash. Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from Kūki, a prestigious design magazine: travel to a massive data...

Eigentlich ist Anna ganz zufrieden mit ihrem Leben. Doch tief in ihrem Inneren spürt sie, dass es da doch noch mehr geben muss! Als sie zu einem Kurzurlaub an den Gardasee aufbricht, ahnt sie nicht, dass das nur der Beginn einer wundersamen Reise ist, die sie über mehrere Kontinente führen wird. Von einem verwunschenen Häuschen in Italien über eine Oase im Oman bis zu einem uralten Glückstempel in Indien: Überall trifft Anna auf besondere Menschen, die sie in die Geheimnisse eines wahrhaft erfüllten Lebens einweihen.

Five women. Five impossible gifts. One question that won't let go: what if you could see what's really there? Maya can walk through the spaces between raindrops —and the spaces between moments, where a single nudge can turn tragedy into a near miss. Helen has spent a lifetime seeing the light beneath ordinary things, a luminous current of love and connection invisible to everyone around her. Alice slips into other people's bodies to reach them at the exact moment they're about to give up.

Zombies are a nightmare of the past, the Lycan wars are over. Mike feels that he can finally settle down after 200 years of war until he hears an impossible message from beyond. Tommy, his adopted son, is in trouble and there is nothing in Heaven or Hell that will stop Mike from helping him.

‘I cried real heartfelt tears' ***** 5 star reader review Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was Elliot’s biggest supporter when the school bullies made his life a misery, and for that, he will always be grateful...