10 piercing novels in letters that made a splash

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Novels in letters can literally be called the most sensual literary genre. Today, a letter is not only a message on paper, but also messages in chats and e-mail, correspondence on social networks, bright paper cards signed in a telegraph style, and much, much more. Usually, in writing, people are much more frank than in conversation, and therefore books written in letters seem to open the veil of secrecy over someone else's life, allowing you to look into the hidden corners of the human soul.

"Loneliness on the Net", Janusz Wisniewski

When it was published in the mid-2000s, Janusz Vishnevsky's novel made a splash. Each reader could recognize himself in the heroes of the work, and therefore pain, feelings, doubts were understandable to everyone. Communication on the Internet does not often develop into real friendship or love, but it makes you fully feel your loneliness among millions of similar lonely people around the world. Maybe for them a real meeting will be a test much more than an attempt to build relationships through e-mails.

Holy Lands, Amanda Shters

For the protagonist of the novel Harry Rosenmark, who moved from America to Israel after retirement, letters have become the main means of communication. He writes to the local rabbi, trying to get a blessing for the development of his new business of raising pigs, he hopes to influence his son, who does not hide his gay orientation, supports his wife, wasting away from the disease. And every letter is imbued with an unquenchable thirst for love.

"Writer", Mikhail Shishkin

A very unusual piece. It is able to make you think, look for the meaning of life, reflect on love and war. The novel by Mikhail Shishkin seems to lull the reader's vigilance, invites him to plunge into the love story of Volodya and Sasha, without revealing until the very end only one, but the most important intrigue of the whole story. Only in the finale will the reader be able to understand why the heroes will never meet in real life.

The Price of Dislike by Lionel Shriver

Incredibly piercing letters of a successful woman, which she addresses to her own husband, trying to understand: where exactly did she make a mistake in life? Not at the moment when she gave birth to a son, following the lead of stereotypes that every woman's life must have children. Or when you couldn't love your child? And the son, just a few days before his own 16th birthday, became a murderer, having staged a massacre at the school.

"I do not believe. I don’t hope. I Love ", Cecilia Ahern

Cecilia Ahern's novel covers almost half a century in the life of two heroes, Alex and Rosie. They have been friends since childhood and habitually support each other in any situation. It took them a lifetime and hundreds of letters to understand: they loved each other from the very time when they met at a very tender age.

It's Good to Be Quiet by Stephen Chbosky

The protagonist of the novel, Charlie, is an ordinary teenager, whose life has its own joys and sorrows. In his attempts to sort out his own problems, he turns not to friends or family, but to letters that he writes to an unknown addressee. And with each letter, his view of the world and his relationship with others changes.

Helm of Terror. Kreatiff about Theseus and the Minotaur ", Victor Pelevin

The play is written in the form of an Internet chat, where each character tries to figure out what is happening to him at a given time and in a given place. They can get out of the maze if they can agree with each other. But this is precisely where the main difficulty lies. This book by Viktor Pelevin was written as part of an international project, where writers from different countries were asked to rewrite famous myths in a new way.

Three Girls in a Rage, Isabelle Pandazopoulos

In the novel, which takes place in the 1960s, three girls find themselves in different countries. Each of them has its own problems and ways to solve them. One escapes from the military dictatorship in Greece, the other cannot meet with her family left behind the Berlin Wall, the third does not want to follow the lead of relatives who dream of philistine prosperity, while she herself longs for a life free from prejudices and morality. Each heroine has her own reason to be furious.

"Castle in the Pyrenees", Justein Gorder

Just one chance meeting can turn your whole life around. And make you not only think about the meaning of life, but also try to understand: why did two people who loved each other so much broke up 20 years ago? What made them abandon each other and their feelings. Now they together want to remember that mysterious incident that once became the reason for the separation of the lovers.

"When I return, be at home", Elchin Safarli

It would seem that it is not unusual for a father to write letters to his daughter, invariably ending them with the signature: “I miss you. Dad . Hans gives advice to his daughter Dost, tells her about life, how he bakes fluffy buns and Dost's favorite raspberry biscuits. But he will never receive a response to any of his letters. With his messages, he tries to reconcile himself with the cruel reality, because his daughter is no longer alive.

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