illness

This collection of short works. Despite the fact that these are short stories, the author never ceases to amaze with his approach to his characters. The scene from Brittany „Idiots” is perhaps his most significant work. Here, Conrad describes a family cursed by a mental illness in a French village, and how the embryo difficulties affect parents.

Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, „Tender Is the Night” is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver who marries one of his patients, a wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé („a used-up man”). The novel explores how love can be won, lost, and perverted...

Love of life is not only the name of the story, but also the main quality of one of the characters. Such an acute, almost tangible desire took possession of man that he, exhausted by hunger, cold, chills, illness, dislocation, hallucinations and other troubles that can await a lonely generational man in the forest. He survived the battle with a bear, with a wolf, with his mind and body, persuading...

Ze wstępem dr hab. Katarzyny Klinger-Prot W ciągu ostatnich kilkudziesięciu lat medycyna dokonała ogromnych postępów. Dzięki przełomowym odkryciom udało się całkowicie wyeliminować niektóre choroby, inne zaś w dużym stopniu opanować. Wydawałoby się, że postęp dotyczy również psychiatrii. Dysponujemy coraz większą liczbą farmaceutyków najnowszej generacji, które lekarze chętnie przepisują cierpiącym...