Resultados para "Memories" en Psicológica

Un uomo schivo, vile, che sopravvive a stento senza il sostegno di amici e senza riconoscimenti di nessun tipo, né a livello personale, né lavorativo, racconta di sé. Lui è in contrasto permanente con la società, e dal suo sottosuolo la osserva, la critica, anche se a volte desidera farne parte. Il più delle volte però si autocensura e si rifugia nel suo mondo sotterraneo popolato di fantasie sfrenate e deliranti che si alternano a stati di risentimento estremo, avallato dalla consapevolezza che la sofferenza è insita nell'essere umano pensante, e che per lui non c'è scampo.

Il racconto - che fa parte della raccolta 'Arabeschi' e 'Racconti di Pietroburgo' - scritto in prima persona nella forma di un diario, narra la progressiva discesa nella follia del burocrate Aksentij Ivanovic. Attratto dalla bella figlia del suo direttore, e volendo sapere qualcosa di più sul conto di lei, Aksentij Ivanovic sottrae le lettere che sarebbero state scritte dalla cagnolina Maggie, nelle quali egli crede di leggere tutto il disinteresse della ragazza verso di lui.

Pubblicato nel 1864, questo breve romanzo è uno spaccato nel dialogo interiore di un impiegato pubblico, che vive “nel sottosuolo”, fuori dalla vita della società. Il libro è diviso in due parti: nella prima le disquisizioni filosofiche dello scrittore di fronte ad un pubblico immaginario, nella seconda, la memoria di un breve periodo della sua vita, che è quasi un racconto a sé.Cornice musicale di Anton Rubinstein.

Twenty-five years ago Katie ran away from home and never came back. But now she's suddenly reappeared in her best friend Olivia's life - in the form of a chilling confession. Olivia's father-in-law, wracked with guilt, says he murdered her all those years ago. Tom suffers from Alzheimer's and his story is riddled with error and confusion. Except for one terrifying certainty: he knows where the body is buried.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The last thing Maura Thomas remembers before her car careened over a steep embankment is having dinner with her college roommate - over 20 years ago. Everything in between is a blank. Maura has no recollection of her husband, her daughter, or her busy, glamorous existence as owner of a Beverly Hills boutique. Maura can't even be sure that everyone around her is who they claim to be. Is it paranoia or self-preservation that makes her uneasy?

Internationally best-selling author Umberto Eco is a master stylist whose books, including The Name of the Rose and Baudolino, have been savored by millions around the world. Now, with The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Eco crafts another of the ambitious and breathtaking novels that are his trademark.

At fifty-five, Philadelphia food writer Leigh Ludlow has made peace with her solitude—or so she tells herself. After years of chasing perfection, raising two grown children, and building a life that looks beautiful on paper, she’s finally learning to sit still with her own company. But beneath the calm, her heart remembers every touch, every heartbreak, every version of herself she’s ever been. When a familiar name from her past reappears, Leigh is pulled into a journey that blurs memory with desire, faith with doubt, and healing with surrender.

Carol is a gifted pianist who has never needed anything but her talent–until an untreatable injury stops her playing. Terrified that it might end her career, she moves to a village on the coast to convalesce and teach singing. She becomes beguiled by glimpses of her next life–a healer called Andreq. Is he really what he seems to be? Does his life have any clues that can help her now?

Even though 16 years have passed, Billie will never recover from the murder of her daughter, Jess, and clings to her memory—and the site of her death—like a life raft. Daniel, who was a toddler when his mother was killed, can recall little of what happened but knows if he’s to have any chance of a better future he needs to move on from that defining event—if only his grandmother would let him. Meanwhile Daniel’s stepmother, Carla, also feels trapped by Jess’s legacy but has a plan that she believes will help everyone to escape from the long shadow of the past.

Richard Dawn is the Gravewalker. He deals with the supernatural when no one else can. Ghosts. Curses. Things that leave more than scars. After years of working alone, he now shares his home with two teenagers who know just enough to be dangerous. When a rural church burns under strange circumstances, Richard is asked to look into it. What he finds is worse than a haunting. The survivors are missing time. Their memories are tangled. Something old is watching from the ruins, and it has not forgotten him.

Grandfather's bedtime stories aren't as innocent as they seem. But those dark tales could be a young man's only hope. Now to transform the onset of events, he must alter the past. A key found on a body floating in the river leads to a formula that can create a device to change the events of time. A hidden secret granting freedom from the life he's lived in a small river town leads to the boundless power of his mind.

When you need a memory to be wiped, call me. Transferring unwanted memories to my own mind is the only form of magic I've ever mastered. But now, I'm holding so many memories I'm not always sure which ones are actually mine, any more. Some of them are sensitive; all of them are private. And...