Imagined by one ofthe world's leading experts on Freud, this fictionalized conversationpresents the essential biography of the father of psychoanalysis
Thomas D. M. Livres
D.M. Thomas possède une remarquable capacité à plonger dans les profondeurs de la psyché humaine, explorant des thèmes complexes avec une sensibilité extraordinaire. Ses récits abordent souvent l'identité, la mémoire et la nature de la réalité, le tout rendu dans un style littéraire distinctif à la fois poétique et incisif. Par un langage soigneusement choisi et des métaphores puissantes, il entraîne les lecteurs dans des voyages profondément introspectifs qui résonnent longtemps après la dernière page. La contribution de Thomas à la littérature réside dans sa perspective unique et sa maîtrise magistrale de la prose, faisant de lui un conteur véritablement significatif.
Bleak Hotel
- 208pages
- 8 heures de lecture
The story goes that it was Barbra Streisand who started it off ... Someone remarked to her at a party that she ought to look for an intelligent, demanding role, and suggested The White Hotel ... Bernardo Bertolucci told me, years later, Streisand had invited him to her Hollywood mansion to discuss the film over dinner. Gold dinner service - butler - the works. She said, Bernardo, there's just one thing bothering how are we going to deal with all the sex' Well, Barbra, I have this idea for glass fibre optics to enter the woman's vagina.' A moment's silence, Let me show you the house.' And she never spoke of The White Hotel to him again. Chronicling the futile and relentless attempt to translate his iconic novel, The White Hotel (1981) into a Hollywood movie, Bleak Hotel is a gripping story of frustration, hope and ultimately, of indifference to both the machinations of the film industry, and the legal maelstrom that surrounds it. More big names have been attached to the making of this non-movie than any glittering, cameo-littered outing in Hollywood's history, from its greatest producers and directors to Hollywood's brightest stars and starlets and still the film remains in the imagination. His account is interwoven with colourful and moving tales of his personal life, involving tangled love relationships and the pain of bereavement.
When Thomas Longois Lefoy is sent to Tangiers to investigate a German plot involving Moroccan phosphates, he uncovers a sinister Soviet Union involvement in the Asturias miners' strike of 1934 and its unforeseen consequences for Andoni Arriola, a Basque metallurgist. As he delves deeper into the case, he finds himself caught in a web of intrigue involving the Spanish Civil War, the injury and death of British intelligence agents, and the protection of Britain's interests in the iron and copper mining industries. As he travels from Tangiers to Gibraltar, Huelva, and Bilbao, he witnesses the devastating effects of civil war and the destruction of open-cast mining. Along the way, he encounters Heinrich Rathenau, a German industrial chemist seeking refuge, and becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of espionage and political maneuvering that reveals the high stakes of international trade and the human cost of war.