It's hard to tear yourself away from them, but sometimes you want to drop them. They, like sweet honey, tighten and stick, leaving in the memory a aftertaste with a bitterness, which can no longer be forgotten. Books about strange, shocking love are worth reading for everyone to know the other side of this incomprehensible world.
1. "Camera Obscura" Vladimir Nabokov
Love is painful.
The passionate love of the spineless art critic Kretschmar for the young intriguer Magda takes on wild, painful forms. The novel is like a thriller: deception, betrayal, stupidity of a man madly in love. The author himself considered the book to be the worst of his works. It is sometimes unpleasant to read it, but it is impossible to come off.
2. "Beauty Line" by Alan Hollingurst
Love is unconventional.
Nick Guest is a graduate of Oxford and lives in the home of his wealthy friends, the Faddens. He is a real esthete and always strives for beauty and luxury. Nick is having an affair, first with a black Leo, and then with a university friend, the son of a billionaire. Outwardly beautiful and frivolous London in those days was ruled by debauchery, sex and drugs. Adults are involved in politics and do not pay attention to the fun of young people. But when a scandal breaks out around the family that sheltered Nick, loyalty to the young gay is replaced by hatred.
3. "Tigers in Red" by Lisa Klausmann
Family love.
Two cousins with different fates and characters in the post-war period are trying to build their own happiness. But in both, something broke, and life does not work out. Women live separately, but every year they return there. where they spent their childhood. Within the walls of a wonderful villa, on an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, among luxury and wonderful seascapes, colors are thickening and a conflict is brewing, which has long been living in the hearts of the main characters.
4. "Praise to the stepmother" by Mario Vargas Llosa
Perverted love.
Young Fonchito has a charming stepmother. She is so kind, and the boy loves her like his own mother, or a little more … The fine line separating vice from art has been erased. The book is puzzling at times. rejection. But it is difficult to argue with the author, who glorifies such a small difference between debauchery and beauty.
5. "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov
Forbidden love.
And again Nabokov. No one can shock and make you think better. A book about a man's criminal love for a nymphet girl is not for nothing considered a classic. Indeed, such different facets of the human soul are described in it with light strokes, brightly and strikingly. Passion and vice are not justified, but love and fidelity to feeling do not allow a negative attitude towards the hero, who is so severely crippled not outwardly, but in the very depths.
Love washes away boundaries. She is able to move mountains and does not notice obstacles on the way. But what if love arises where it shouldn't be. And then hiding your feelings is the best solution. But what moves mountains cannot be hidden. That is why books about strange, shocking love excite our hearts so much.
