Titoli in Arte e letteratura

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named a Best Book of the Year by critics from both NPR and the New York Post! "The voice of a man who tasted the best of the American century and still left the party early, with his dignity intact." —The New Yorker From the pages of Spy and Vanity Fair to...

Norteña. Memorias del comienzo es la historia de un enamoramiento: el de Julieta Venegas con la música. Criada en Tijuana, en ese paisaje singular donde el desierto se encuentra con el mar y una frontera divide —o junta— dos países y dos formas de vida, Julieta recorre los primeros años que la formaron como artista: cómo aprendió a escuchar, cómo aprendió a tocar, cómo fue encontrando su propio sonido. La música llega primero como herencia familiar, como alegría compartida, como el idioma que su familia ya hablaba antes que ella.

Un'ereditiera californiana viene rapita dall'Esercito di liberazione simbionese, diventa l'amante di uno dei terroristi e terrorista lei stessa, poi sposa la sua guardia del corpo e va a vivere con figli e cani in una casa finto-spagnola iper-blindata. Una banchiera d'affari di Manhattan mentre fa jogging a Central Park viene aggredita da sei adolescenti neri e ispanici, stuprata, torturata con dei rami e ridotta in fin di vita.

When her mother was in the hospital with terminal cancer, Simone had time to reminisce about her mother’s early life, as Simone and her sister, Poupette, prepared to face the decision of whether to prolong a life when it is full of suffering. Like most people, they believed that it would be...

Mordaz, imaginativo, de gran sentido del humor, sus obras reflejan, como pocos, su corrosivo pesimismo respecto a la condición humana. Principal exponente del teatro del absurdo junto a Samuel Beckett, este francés de alma irreverente se convirtió en un ícono y un autor de culto dentro del circuito teatral mundial. En este audiolibro, pretendemos que conozca sobre los avatares de su existencia.

In Inadvertent, internationally best-selling author Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals his beginnings as a writer and his literary influences, as well as his creative development and his struggles. But this audiobook is more than a window into the writer's frame of mind. It's also a glimmering meditation on literature and creativity - on its limitations and its freedoms.  

During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams - remarkable friends, writers, and scholars - met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first found an audience.

Biographical profile of Walter Elias Disney, the man who built an empire on the back of a mouse. Imbued with an iron-like drive to succeed, Disney pushed, prodded, and pressed those around him, as he did himself, to succeed. He was always on the edge of vision and technology. An unmitigated risk taker, Disney constantly flirted with financial ruin, seemingly bent on a mission to remain in debt while his brother Roy's ambition was to harness Walt's financial excesses.

Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the range of her achievements as a thinker and writer reach far beyond this text. She was a multi-faceted author, and although the condition of women was a constant preoccupation throughout her life, she wrote on a wide variety of topics and in a range of literary forms, some of which she created herself.

This book, as much a work of history as a biography, is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures in history. Thomas More (1478–1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political treatise, Utopia, that gave a political worldview; and...

Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first...

Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...

Что итальянец может рассказать нам про величайшую русскую поэтессу? Анна Ахматова — та, что, как говорил Иосиф Бродский, "одним только тоном голоса или поворотом головы превращала вас в гомо сапиенс". Женщина, пережившая две мировые войны и ставшая самым популярным голосом России в тяжелые для страны времена. Она страдала, как страдают души, которые, даже сдаваясь, не сдаются. Она не переставала писать, даже когда ее стихи могли передаваться только из уст в уста. В конце жизни она смогла стать тем, кем хотела — величайшей поэтессой своего времени.

Über einen Zeitraum von mehr als 35 Jahren, beginnend mit der ersten Veröffentlichung des jungen Autors im Suhrkamp Verlag im Jahr 1965, besprachen Peter Handke und sein Verleger Siegfried Unseld das ihnen Wichtigste schriftlich: die Literatur und die Bücher. Ihr Briefwechsel eröffnet völlig neue Einsichten in die Bedingungen des Schreibens und der Verbreitung von Büchern, zeigt beider unablässiges Arbeiten an neuen Ausdrucksformen sowie die entsprechenden materiellen, geographischen, politischen und persönlichen Begleitumstände.

Tal y como define la autora de este episodio biográfico de la serie 'Mujeres con luz propia', poner voz a Camille Claudel desde el siglo XXI es un atrevimiento por parte de una escultora que estudia en el siglo XX y llega a la madurez pudiendo ejercer de su libertad ya bien entrado el XXI...

TODO EL MUNDO QUIERE VIVIR EN UN LIBRO DE MANUEL VILAS Más de 250.000 lectores. NADIE ANTES QUE MANUEL VILAS HA EXPLORADO LA VULNERABILIDAD DE UN ESCRITOR COMO LO HACE ÉL AQUÍ. Su nueva novela, de clara inspiración autobiográfica, narra la historia vital de un escritor que se levanta todas...

Con la prosa suggestiva, la sensibilità e l'acume di Edouard Schuré ripercorriamo la vita e le opere di Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello, Michelangelo e il Correggio. Il punto di vista che ci viene proposto è non solo quello materiale, ma anche quello animico, e spirituale. L'arte vera offre finestre aperte sul cielo, e l'artista non è da meno del profeta, che dice direttamente ciò che ode dallo Spirito.

« J'ai une dette envers mes parents. Je leur dois la vie. Mais pas le pardon. Pardonner m'est impossible. Le long chemin de l'immigration est un lourd héritage, j'ai dû m'inventer contre eux, contre tous ceux présents sur ma photo de famille. » F.K A la mort de sa mère, découvrant les...

Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety for a time. Along the way Valentino encounters enemy soldiers...