Top 5 books to feel the breath of spring
With the arrival of spring, we feel the need for sunshine, a light breath of wind and a new inspirational book.
We present to your attention our selection.
1. April Sorcery, Ray Bradbury
This is a very simple, short and clear story. About what happens when in the spring the soul demands new pleasant impressions and feelings. And about how beautiful and charming unrequited love is with its special nauseating aftertaste. This story is almost weightless. But it has a lot of spring, emotions and occasions to remember and communicate with yourself.
2. Dream Shelter, Erich Maria Remarque
The Dream Shelter is an artist’s guest house in a provincial German town. Its inhabitants are young people whose souls are beautiful and open, whose thoughts are pure, and whose hearts are full of hope. Having fallen in love for the first time, they will experience separation and betrayal, will return to their loved ones, and the old artist, leaving this world, bequeaths to them his love for life and art. They are all so far from real life in the ruined and humiliated Germany of the 1920s … This first novel by the then 22-year-old author, who was soon famous, was ridiculed by critics for his naivety and sentimentality, and Remarque vowed never to write again. . The final result is well known.
3. Spring in Fialti, Vladimir Nabokov.
A subtle story of love and the mysteries of fate. The stories of the collection “Spring in Fialte” are a brilliant example of the “late” period of Nabokov’s work, a period marked by interesting stylistic features. Here Nabokov’s prose again – for the first time in a decade – enters its realistic phase – but in the form of already deeply mature, wise, philosophical.
4. Lavender Room, Nina Gheorghe
Imagine a small shop on the water, the owner of which believes that books can cure any disease. As a medieval pharmacist, he selects one or another work for his “patients” – unhappy and lost customers. According to him, books cure sadness, negative emotions, disappointment and unrequited love. Unfortunately, they did not cure the store owner himself, who has not been able to recover from the terrible loss for 20 years. But a new spring and new circumstances breathed life into him, and he removes the anchor to go to Provence, to meet new feelings and adventures.
5. Cold spring in Provence, Dina Rubina
The collection includes several essays about different cities where Dina Rubina had to visit. Each place has its own unique atmosphere, perfectly conveyed by the writer. There is no consistent plot, but this does not prevent reading the book with great interest. As always, Dina Rubina’s descriptions are bright and colorful, her manner of expressing her thoughts is expressive, her comparisons are unexpected, and her observations are original. The author is distinguished by a subtle attention to detail, landscapes, people and foreign languages.
