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«Obladat» — legendarnyy roman-laureat Bukerovskoy premyy, odno yz vazhneyshykh proyzvedenyy brytanskoy lyteratury kontsa XX veka. V novom oformlenyy! Luchshyy podarok dlya vsekh tsenyteley kachestvennoy prozy. «Obladat» — luchshyy roman Antonyy Syuzen Bayett, y eto ne preuvelychenye: knyga schytaetsya odnym yz luchshykh anglyyskykh romanov kontsa XX veka. Vprochem, slovo «roman» mozhno prymenyt k etoy udyvytelnoy proze vesma uslovno. Chto zhe takoe pered namy? Detektyvnyy roman ydey? Zhenskyy gotycheskyy roman v sovremennom yspolnenyy? Rytsarskyy roman na novyy lad? Vsyo vmeste — y nechto bolshee: gluboko sovremennaya veshch, vobravshaya mnogye tradytsyy y otmechennaya pechatyu podlynnogo vdokhnovenyya y novatorstva. V romane raznymy granyamy perelyvaetsya tayna anglyyskogo dukha y anglyyskogo velychyya. No prezhde vsego, eto knyga o zhyvykh lyudyakh (puskay nekotorye yz nykh davno umerly), obrazy kotorykh navazhdenyem skhodyat k chytatelyu; o lyubvy y strasty, pobezhdayushchey vremya y smert; ob ustremlenyyakh dukha y ploty, zemnykh y vozvyshennykh, yavnykh y potayonnykh; y o bozhestvennom Plane, kotoryy proglyadyvaet v tragycheskykh y komycheskykh uzorakh sudby chelovecheskoy. Po zerkalnomu labyryntu syuzheta personazhy etogo prychudlyvogo povestvovanyya probyrayutsya v taynstvennoe proshloe: obytately epokhy lyudey — v epokhu geroev, a obytately epokhy geroev — v epokhu bogov. Dve stykhyy tsaryat na etykh stranytsakh — stykhyya uma, bleska mysly, pochty chuvstvennogo, y stykhyya tonkogo erotyzma, rozhdayushchegosya ot soprykosnovenyya gruboy materyy zhyzny s nezhnymy tkanyamy fantazyy. «Obladat» zanymaet unykalnoe mesto v ystoryy sovremennoy lyteratury y, pry svoyom glubokom natsyonalnom svoeobrazyy, prynadlezhyt vsemu myru. Teper, cherez neskolko desyatyletyy posle vykhoda shedevra Bayett, kazhetsya malo Bukerovskoy premyy 1990 goda, prysuzhdyonnoy romanu. Kak, mozhet byt, malo y ordena Brytanskoy ymperyy, vruchyonnogo avtoru chut pozdnee. Ydealnyy podarok dlya tsenyteley yntellektualnoy prozy — pereyzdanye kultovogo romana v novom oformlenyy!

"Possess" is a legendary Booker Prize—winning novel, one of the most important works of British literature of the late 20th century. In a new design! The best gift for all connoisseurs of high-quality prose. To Possess is Antonia Susan Byatt's best novel, and this is no exaggeration: the book is considered one of the best English novels of the late 20th century. However, the word "novel" can be applied to this amazing prose very conditionally. What is in front of us? A detective novel of ideas? A female Gothic novel in a modern version? A chivalrous romance in a new way? All together, there is something more: a deeply modern piece that has absorbed many traditions and is marked by genuine inspiration and innovation. In the novel, the mystery of the English spirit and English greatness shimmers in different facets. But first of all, this is a book about living people (even if some of them have died long ago), whose images come to the reader like an obsession; about love and passion that overcomes time and death; about the aspirations of the spirit and flesh, earthly and sublime, explicit and hidden; and about the divine Plan that can be seen in tragic and comic the patterns of human destiny. Through the mirror maze of the plot, the characters of this bizarre narrative make their way into the mysterious past: the inhabitants of the age of men — in the age of heroes, and the inhabitants of the age of heroes — in the age of the gods. Two elements reign on these pages — the element of the mind, the brilliance of thought, almost sensual, and the element of subtle eroticism, born from the contact of the coarse matter of life with the delicate fabrics of fantasy. "To Possess" occupies a unique place in the history of modern literature and, with its deep national identity, belongs to the whole world. Now, several decades after the release of Bayette's masterpiece, it seems that the 1990 Booker Prize awarded to the novel is not enough. As, perhaps, the Order of the British Empire, awarded to the author a little later, is not enough. The perfect gift for connoisseurs of intellectual prose is a new edition of the cult novel!