9 most poignant loneliness romances

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“Remember: the moment when you feel your loneliness most acutely is the moment when it is most necessary to be alone,” wrote Douglas Copeland. You can add to this only - "be alone and read a good book about loneliness." In our review, we have collected the best books that are worth opening on this very occasion.

1. Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Forest novel

This is a story about a man who sold records in the evening. From time to time he watched passers-by through the glass of the shop window. On the street, he saw a variety of people - hostesses from bars, girls in minis, families, yakuza, drunk citizens, couples in love, guys with beatnik beards and other personalities. When the hero put on a disc with the works of rock musicians, idlers and hippies gathered next to the showcase, sitting down simply on the asphalt or dancing to the beat of the melody. The hero of the "Norwegian Forest" looked at everything that was happening and could not understand what was happening, what people wanted to say with all this …

2. Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea

The author calls nausea, the washed away of the lives of all people who daily find themselves in the center of the turmoil. He considers them abandoned to the mercy of a bleak and pitiless reality. Where there is nausea, there is no room for trust and love, and therefore one should not be surprised that women and men cannot understand each other in any way. Nausea is considered the reverse side of despair, overstepping which a person gains freedom. But the path to freedom turns out to be so difficult and lonely that having received this freedom, it is difficult to understand what to do with it now.

3. Janusz Wisniewski - the novel "Loneliness on the Net"

Among all the romance novels that have appeared on the bookshelves of Russia, this work can be classified as one of the most poignant. Ya. L. Vishnevsky in this European bestseller decided to tell that love of all eternal is the shortest.

The main characters of the novel titled "Loneliness on the Net" for some time communicate through virtual chats, share erotic fantasies with each other, and, naturally, tell life stories, many of which are incredible, but real. As time goes on, the main characters overcome numerous trials, but the most difficult test for their love turns out to be a meeting in Paris …

4. Gabriel García Márquez - Nobody Writes to the Colonel

"Nobody writes to the colonel" - this is an amazing story, which has no analogues in Latin American prose. The writer did not manage to get such a strong and capacious work right away. To get this result, Marquez had to rewrite the book a dozen times.

At first glance, the plot of the story seems quite ordinary. The writer talks about the change of power in Latin America. New politicians are trying to enrich themselves as soon as possible at the expense of the common people. And the story also tells about an elderly colonel who participated in the Civil War, who is currently struggling to make ends meet in a provincial town. Garcia Márquez, using the example of this colonel, tells how a person can overcome loneliness, fight against the absurdity and arbitrariness prevailing in the world.

5. Douglas Copeland - Elinor Rigby novel

This is a story about a lonely girl named Liz, who on the web introduces herself as Eleanor Rigby. The main character is absolutely lonely and lives in anticipation of a miracle that still happens to her. However, it is not in vain that people are told. That you need to be afraid of your desires. Having received what she wants, Liz realizes that in reality everything turns out to be not what she imagined. How will the story develop further? And events turn out to be unpredictable …

6. Patrick Suskind - the play "Double bass"

Many people know the work called "Perfume", created by Petrik Suskind. But at the same time, not many have read the play of this German writer called "Contrabass", which became his first work. Immediately after its release, this book became one of the most bought in Munich and throughout Europe. You can find it on sale in Russia. The book included an autobiography of the writer, as well as reviews of the work of Suskind from some art critics.

7. Ernest Hemingway - "The Old Man and the Sea"

The book entitled "The Old Man and the Sea" is Hemingway's most famous work and is recognized as a true masterpiece. In this work, the author said that in any even the most losing situations, a person must always maintain dignity and remain courageous. The writer vividly describes the battle with the monstrous fish and the attack of sharks on it. From time to time, tragic events are interrupted by reflections on the world around us and on the past. This contrasting reception makes the story unforgettable.

8. Michael Cunningham - "The Watch"

The author Mike Kenningham in his novel asks numerous questions that relate to the structure of time, the procedure for the birth of books. He tries to figure out what influence words have on events and vice versa, how the words-dreams of the authors are related to each other. The reader finds answers to all these questions in the novel "Hours", which describes the ultramodern New York, America of the 90s, the fate of Virginia Woolf, post-war Los Angeles, England of the 20s. Creativity, death and love are mixed in the novel.

9. Richard Matheson - "I Am Legend"

The story of a hero named Robert Neville, who turned out to be the only person in all of Los Angeles who remained human, while the rest of the population in the city caught a strange virus that makes living things look like vampires. He single-handedly tries to find a cure for the virus, hiding from the infected, in an armored house.

Millions of citizens are familiar with this plot from the film of the same name, where the role of the main character was played by Will Smith. But film history does not exactly repeat the book, and therefore not everyone knows how the end of the story was seen by the literary hero Richard Matheson. But in his future fantastic world, he laid the deepest meaning that shocks readers. This is a work that will never become outdated, and this is how cult books should be.

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