William Styron

Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.

Sophie's Choice

a memoir of madness

Darkness visible

مذكرات الجنون

ظلام مرئي

confessionsof Nat Turner

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describes an illness that reduced him from a successful writer to a man arranging his own destruction. He lived to give us this gripping description of his descent into mental anguish, and his eventual success in overcoming a little-understood yet very common condition.The unabridged text of Darkness Visibleby William StyronVINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series-Swimming by Roger DeakinBabiesby Anne EnrightCalm by Tim ParksWork by Joseph Heller

Depression

Lie down in darkness

In the shadow of the Korean War, a series of misfired mortar shells kill six men in a Marine camp during a training exercise, prompting the commanding officer to order a grueling punishment: a thirty-six mile march through the suffocating heat of the Carolina summer. Intended to beat discipline into the aging reservists, the march instead rankles Lieutenant Culver and Captain Mannix, whose growing resentment of the brutal trek leads to an ultimate, powerful act of rebellion. The Long March is a withering critique of a military system that leaves no room for dignity or personal identity. Told in part through flashbacks and dream sequences, the story is immersed in vivid language and philosophical reflection--a poignant defense of the individual in the face of attempted dehumanization.

The Long March

Wybór Zofii

Com três milhões de exemplares vendidos, 47 semanas nas listas de best-sellers do Times e vencedor do National Book Award de 1980, A escolha de Sofia mostra, em sua patética grandeza, com perfeito domínio do tempo na narrativa e um texto denso e envolvente, o drama de uma mulher corroída pela culpa, que nenhuma felicidade consegue desviar do puro e simples aniquilamento, e para quem a única possibilidade de vida é uma ligação alucinante e destrutiva. Para além das cercas eletrificadas e das câmaras de gás, o campo de concentração de Auschwitz continuava a fazer vítimas. A escolha de Sofia com roteiro, produção e direção de Alan J. Pakula, teve versão cinematográfica de grande êxito: eleito melhor filme de 1983 pela Associação de Críticos de Nova York e Los Angeles e ganhador do Globo de Ouro da Associação de Imprensa Estrangeira de Hollywood, deu à atriz Meryl Streep o segundo Oscar de sua carreira.

A Escolha de Sofia

The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men- Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg.Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in this relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil.

Set this House on Fire

Nous ne croyons pas à l'Enfer, nous sommes incapables de l'imaginer, et pourtant il existe, on peut s'y retrouver brusquement au-delà de toute expression. Telle est la leçon de ce petit livre magnifique et terrible. Récit d'une dépression grave, avec son cortège "d'angoisses, d'insomnies, de rafales dévastatrices, de tentations de suicide", il nous montre pour la première fois ce qu'est réellement cette " tempête des ténèbres " intérieure qui peut frapper n'importe qui à chaque instant, mais peut-être plus particulièrement certains écrivains, ou artistes. Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Romain Gary, Primo Levi, Van Gogh : la liste de ces proies désignées de l'ombre serait longue. Enfer, donc, comme celui de Dante, douleur sans autre issue que celle de l'autodestruction, état de transe incommunicable que ne soupçonnent pas les autres, pas même les psychiatres. Pourtant, la guérison est possible, on peut en tirer une connaissance nouvelle. Avec précision et courage, le grand romancier qu'est William Styron plaide ici à la fois pour une meilleure compréhension de notre prochain abîme dans l'horreur, et contre le goût du néant qui nous guette tous.

chronique d'une folie

Face aux ténèbres

Selected letters of William Styron

In the Clap Shack

William Styron, The Collected Novels

After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron’s daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. Styron’s essays touch on the great themes of his fiction–racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust–but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects. These essays, which reveal a reflective and humorous side of Styron’s nature, make possible a fuller assessment of this enigmatic man of American letters.

Personal Essays

Havanas in Camelot

Gülten Suveren

Sophie'nin Seçimi

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A Brooklyn, en 1947, Stingo, jeune écrivain venu du Sud, rencontre Sophie, jeune catholique polonaise rescapée des camps de la mort. A la relation de la rencontrer du jeune homme avec l'amour, se superposent la narration du martyre de Sophie, l'évocation de l'univers concentrationnaire et de l'holocauste nazi. Les deux veines, autobiographique et historique, intriguent en profondeur ce roman et fusionnent en une émouvante parabole sur l'omniprésence du Mal, symbolisé par l'horreur nazie, mais aussi par l'esclavage et le racisme brutal ou larvé de la société américaine, l'intolérance à tous les degrés, la férocité de la lutte de l'homme pour la vie ou la survie la plus élémentaire.

Le choix de Sophie

Cristina Jinga

Alegerea Sofiei

Este romance narra o envolvimento de Stingo com a bela Sofia, assombrada pela terrível escolha que precisou fazer um dia e que definiu o resto da sua vida. 'A escolha de Sofia' mostra uma mulher entregue a uma relação alucinante e destrutiva, impermeável a qualquer felicidade capaz de desviá-la do puro e simples aniquilamento. Para além das cercas eletrificadas e das câmaras de gás, Auschwitz continuava a fazer vítimas. Por trás das angustiantes lembranças que atormentam Sofia, cujos mistérios são aos poucos implacavelmente revelados, o autor mergulha nas raízes da loucura e da crueldade humana.

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