Daniel Keyes

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.   Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence – a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?

Саллі Портер знайшли голою та непритомною на березі океану. Виявляється, дівчина намагалася покінчити з собою, а троє молодиків, які наздогнали її та витягли з води, хотіли її зґвалтувати… Саллі опинилася в лікарні, але вона нічого не пам’ятає і переконана: самогубство намагалася вчинити не вона, а хтось інший, хто навчився керувати її свідомістю… Лікар Роджер Еш береться допомогти дівчині. Він виявляє, що у голові у Саллі живуть ще четверо жінок та п’ятий «хтось»…

Algernon est une souris de laboratoire, Charlie Gordon un simplet employé aux médiocres besognes. Tous deux vont emprunter, grâce à une découverte du docteur Strauss et du professeur Nemur, le chemin vers l'intelligence. Suivi par la psychologue Alice Kinnian dont il tombe rapidement amoureux, Charlie va faire de grands progrès sur le plan intellectuel. Ainsi, au terme du troisième mois de traitement, il consigne dans son journal, originellement intitulé CONTE RANDU : J'ai téléphoné à Landsdoff au New Institute for Advanced Study, au sujet de l'utilisation des paires d'ions produites par effet photo-nucléaire, pour des recherches exploratoires en biophysique. La progression est fulgurante. Mais le plus dur est à venir, et la découverte du monde qui l'entoure sera sans concession. Puis soudain le rêve s'effondre, Algernon décline et finit par mourir. A rapprocher de Quotient intellectuel à vendre de John Boyd, cette fable émouvante conviendra autant aux jeunes lecteurs avides de découvertes qu'aux amateurs qui seraient passés à côté de ce livre aujourd'hui classique. Il obtint en effet le prix Hugo en 1960 et fut porté à l'écran par Ralph Nelson en 1968 sous le titre de Charly. --Laurent Schneitter

Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded. Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan. Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy's stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy's body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world.