Titoli in Arte e letteratura

Jacopo da Lentini, detto "Il Notaro" (noto anche come Giacomo o Iacopo; Lentini, 1210 circa – Lentini, 1260 circa), è stato un poeta e notaio italiano.

Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times best-selling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher found himself living in the small community of Starhill, Louisiana, where he grew up. But instead of the fellowship he hoped to find, he discovered that fault lines within his family had deepened. Dreher spiraled into depression and a stress-related autoimmune disease.

Un lungo processo gli ha tolto anni preziosi, ma gli ha restituito la possibilità di guardarsi dentro e rinascere. Tra ricordi, passioni e viaggi che profumano di libertà, il suo cammino diventa un inno alla resilienza e alla ricerca di sé.

Bloomsbury presents Bread of Angels written and read by Patti Smith A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an...

In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.

Martin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known. "...[Narrator Alex] Jennings's portrayals of Lionel and his circle are tremendous fun." —...

Cantautora, pintora, escultora, bordadora y ceramista chilena, es considerada por muchos la folclorista más importante de Chile del siglo XX y fundadora de la música popular de aquel país. El aporte de Violeta Parra al quehacer musical y artístico chileno se considera unánimemente de gran valor y trascendencia, sirviendo su trabajo de inspiración a muchos artistas posteriores. De allí su importancia.

Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union...

Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy who goes to live with his grandparents following the death of his father. Gorky’s depiction of 19th-century Russia through the eyes of his younger self is remarkable. As he recalls memories of his youth, contrasting themes and emotions are revealed, from barbaric joy to dark gloom, genuine cruelty and saint-like forbearance.

Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando Este libro constituye un acto de gratitud intelectual, una muestra de deslumbramiento —producto de una fervorosa lectura de sus libros—, pero sobre todo es una invitación a acercarse al autor latinoamericano más...

When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, Orwell, like many other European socialists, was quick to join the fight against fascism. And so, in December that year, he found himself in Catalonia with a 40-year-old rifle, no helmet, uniform, maps or tools, and a platoon of near children under his command.

This landmark biography penetrates the barriers of legend to bring to full and intimate life a man whose burning passions - for painting, women, and ideas - were matched by a compulsion to invent reality in his life no less than in his art. Here is the tragic story of a man who, from his teenage passion for a gypsy boy to the chilling bitterness and betrayals of his old age, was unable to love and was driven to dominate and humiliate the women - and men - who fell under his hypnotic spell.

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame—and scandal—before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography.

MADONNA. ANDY WARHOL. KEITH HARING. FAB 5 FREDDIE. DEBBIE HARRY. JULIAN SCHNABEL. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the...

Bloomsbury presents Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs, read by Ron Butler ‘For me,’ wrote James Baldwin in 1959, ‘the difficulty is to remain in touch with the private life. The private life, his own and that of others, is the writer’s subject – his key and ours to his...

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) ist in Augsburg geboren und gilt als einer der einflussreichsten deutschen Dramatiker und Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seit seiner Jugend schreibt er unablässig Gedichte und Dramen. Unter dem Eindruck des Ersten Weltkriegs regt ihn der Dramatiker Frank Wedekind zum Erstlingswerk Baal an, welches trotz Unterstützung Lion Feuchtwangers erfolglos in Leipzig uraufgeführt wird.

Le premier tome des Souvenirs d’enfance de Marcel Pagnol est un classique indémodable.
Par la grâce de son écriture, l’auteur nous transporte dans les collines provençales et nous fait partager son émerveillement d’enfant.

Brought to you by Penguin. In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'.  

"Lei sa la differenza fra un piccolo e un grande giornale? Il grande giornale è quello che pubblica anche le notizie che dispiacciono. S’intende, la notizia che ci dispiace la si commenta come più ci piace." — Eugenio Torelli Viollier Dalla Napoli borbonica alla Milano post-unitaria, dalla fondazione del "Corriere" alla battaglia per difenderne l’indipendenza, la straordinaria avventura dell’uomo che dopo l’Italia provò a fare gli italiani."Nacqui a Napoli, il 26 marzo 1842.