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A young woman, in search of meaning, love and excitement, sinks into the boredom, affairs and emotional emptiness of Parisian high society. A typical Sagan world of melancholy and hedonism.
Historical and psychological novel by Stendhal, published in 1830. The full title of the novel is "Red and Black, Chronicle of the 19th Century". The protagonist is Julien Sorel. The work is a bildungsroman that follows his upbringing and life path.
The novel Another's Wife follows a young painter who returns to the province, where he experiences a love affair with another man's wife, but also disappointment, alienation, and conflict with his petty-bourgeois environment.
Françoise Sagan's three novels tell elegant, melancholic stories of love, depression, transience, and the intellectual bourgeoisie of the 1960s/70s.
Ladislav Fuks's "Mr. Theodor Mundstock" follows a lonely Jew in occupied Prague who, expecting deportation to a concentration camp, mentally and physically prepares himself for survival.
Corinna, a miraculous healer from Münsterland, restores hope to the sick with her "shining hands," but her gift sparks conflicts between faith, medicine, doubt, and the human need for a miracle.