Contrast’s selection of books for the year

“Plato, not Prozac!”, Lu Marinof

“Plato, not Prozac!”, by Canadian academic and professor of philosophy Lou Marinoff, is a new book in the edition of Contrasts of Popular Psychology. The book “Plato, not Prozac!” offers readers an alternative to traditional psychotherapy, explaining how the theories of the most important philosophers throughout history can help overcome everyday challenges. Marinof guides us through the PEACE process through which we can rationally approach love, business, family, and moral problems. As one of the founders and leading experts in philosophical counseling, the author of this book guides the reader with a sure hand to a more fulfilling lifeto life.

„Almanah Navala Ravikanta”, Erik Jorgenson

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Many curious readers already know the famous entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant, mostly from Twitter, podcasts and essays. This guide to wealth and happiness is an extraordinary book that brings together the wisdom and decades of life and business experience of a world-renowned businessman who deals with two seemingly contradictory topics: building wealth and living a meaningful and peaceful life. One of the most influential “angel investors”, the founder of the investment platform AngelListgives readers concrete advice on how to acquire wealth, but also on how to use it properly and meaningfully, with a strong focus on the ultimate goal: achieving freedom, a good life and helping others and the community in whichoj we live.

“Family Ties”, Clarice Lispektor

Family Ties, Contrast

After the novels “Star Hour” and “Living Water”, the most famous Brazilian author published the collection “Family Ties”, which consists of thirteen prose bravura in which mysterious and unexpected moments of internal crises encourage heroines and heroes – alienated by the disturbing sense of the absurdity of life – to self-discovery and lead them to unsuspected epiphanies amidst the banality of it allcod liver oil

“Family Ties” perverts the ideas of comfort and security that the word “relationship” may suggest, exploring its darker meaning, the sense of limitation and constraint produced not only by family but also by interpersonal relationships in general. The author’s pictures are always accompanied by their negatives, so that “positive” and “negative” in her writing have equal importance in portraying reality, which, therefore, is never the way it is presented. The collection was published as part of the edition Thatnski voice.

“Stela Maris / Traveler”, KormI am Makarti

Passenger, Contrast

Two romana in one book, with which Kontrast completes the collection of this American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the novel “The Road” and the National Prize for Literature for the novel “Svi ti lepi horses”.

“Passenger” is the story of a diver who, haunted by loss and his father’s terrible legacy, chases after an inconceivable conspiracy and longs for death irreconcilablyMs. God.

„Stela Maris” is an intimate portrait of sadness and longing in which a young woman in a psychiatric institution tries to understand her own pexistence.

Read Cormak McCarthy’s other novels: “The Road”, “Child of God”, “This is no country for old people” the “Satri”.

“House of Sweets”, DžeIgan’s number

House of sweets, Contrast

“House of Sweets”, by the American writer Jennifer Egan, is an unusual continuation of the novel “The Time of the Bully”, for which the author received the Pulitzer Prize in 2011.as a reward.

The novel follows numerous characters who are faced with a revolutionary technology that allows people to upload and share their memories in a collective archive, but also to access other people’s memories. Focusing on the topic of memory, the author gives a general overview of the end of private life. The title of the novel is a repeated metaphor for temptation, where the lures of fun and nostalgia put us in the position of Ivica and Marica in the sugar house, to which we are invited, but where our desires and memories of menu.

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