Карсон Маккалерс — книжные серии

Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry socialist drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways they could never imagine...

Moving, sensitive and deeply humane, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter explores loneliness, the human need for understanding and the search for love.

Аўтар аповесцяў, уключаных у гэтую кнігу, амерыканская пісьменніца К. Маккалерс (1917-1967) з сардэчнай цеплынёй і спачувальнасцю піша пра людзей цяжкага лёсу, у жыцці якіх дарагія нават маленькія радасці. Паказваючы ўнутранныя праблемы расчараванага чалавека, яна здолела передаць сацыяльныя праблемы свайго грамадства і стварыць новы тып псіхалагічнай трагедыі.

Маленький южный городок 1930-х, задыхающийся от скуки, жары и скрытой ненависти. Городок, в котором ничего не происходит – и в то же время происходит слишком многое. Городок, где разбиваются сердца. Здесь происходит печальная драма одиночества глухонемого мудреца Джона Сингера и трагедия доктора Копленда, позволившего себе забыть, что значит быть черным на Юге. Здесь тлеет недовольство жизнью в Бифе Бреннане – благополучном хозяине преуспевающего кафе. И здесь, к несчастью, довелось расти и взрослеть талантливой девочке Мик Келли…

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a child torn between her yearning to belong and the urge to run away.

In a small town in the American South, four men, young and old, consider their pasts and their futures. J.T.Malone, a lonely middle-aged drugstore owner, discovers he is dying and tries to atone for his misspent life. The aged Judge Clane resists integration and longs for the old ways of the South, while his idealistic grandson, Jester, is drawn to Sherman, a volatile, blue-eyed, black orphan in search of his own identity. Gradually they will discover that their lives are inextricably bound together. Through their interlocking stories Carson McCullers explores prejudice, secrets and redemption with both humour and poignancy.

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" was Carson McCullers' first novel, written in 1940. Set in a small town in the American South, it is the story of a group of people who have little in common except that they are all hopelessly lonely. A young girl, a drunken socialist and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, whose presence changes their lives. This powerful exploration of alienation is both moving and perceptive.

Five people’s dreams, obsessions and failures weave and interweave in Carson McCullers’s atmospheric novel of life in a peace-time army camp. In the American Deep South is a fort that contains a group of men and women trapped in a stifling and repetitive existence. The Major and his fragile wife dine and play cards with Captain Penderton and the flamboyant Mrs Penderton watched, at a distance, by Private Williams. Quiet and unfathomable, he is fascinated by the Captain’s wife – his unsettling presence creating fear and despair within the isolated community.

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers' best stories, including her beloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers' first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.

"The Mortgaged Heart" is an important collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".

В настоящий том Библиотеки включены роман Уиллы Кэсер «Моя Антония» — реалистическое повествование о судьбах поселенцев-иммигрантов, осваивавших земли американского Запада на рубеже столетий, а также психологический роман Карсон Маккалерс «Сердце — одинокий охотник», в центре которых сложные проблемы человеческих взаимоотношений в современной Америке, где царит атмосфера отчужденности и непонимания.

Карсон Маккаллерс (1917-1967) стала знаменитостью к 24-м годам. До того как получить литературное признание, она работала машинисткой, официанткой, тапершей. Музыка научила ее строгой логичной композиции, - сюжеты ее произведений представляют собой гармоническое целое.
Повести и рассказы, включенные в эту книгу, затрагивают излюбленные темы американской писательницы. Это проблема детства, с трудом преодолевающего барьер во взрослую жизнь, а также все странное и необычное в человеческой природе, когда за отклонением от нормы скрывается глубокий трагизм и страдание, а возможно, и желание исправить этот несовершенный мир.