Titoli in Arte e letteratura

Jorge Luis Borges (1899—1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging...

Als er im Sterben lag, sagte Paul Auster seiner Frau, er wolle ein Geist werden. Und das ist er für Siri Hustvedt geworden: eine allzeit spürbare Präsenz, schmerzlich und tröstlich zugleich. Sie trägt seine Jacke, sie meint seine Zigarillos im Haus zu riechen, sie liest seine Bücher von neuem. Und zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit liest sie ihre eigenen Liebesbriefe, vom Beginn einer gemeinsamen Geschichte, die 43 Jahre währen sollte. Mit ihrem beispiellosen Trauer-, Gedächtnis- und Liebesbuch nähert sie sich dem unmöglichen Wunsch, Paul zu neuem Leben zu erwecken.

No primeiro volume desta biografia, Mário Magalhães reconstitui com rigor jornalístico e fôlego narrativo a vida de Carlos Lacerda em todas as suas contradições — políticas, ideológicas e humanas. Um retrato complexo — como o próprio personagem — desta figura chave da história do...

A FASCINATING, FAST-PACED MEMOIR by award-winning journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived a near-fatal accident and went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events. From being the first NZ correspondent to film in North Korea, telling stories from the farflung...

Le tour de la France uniquement par ses côtes, de la plage de Malo Bray-Dunes jusqu'à la Baie des Anges, avec un van et une guitare, c'est ce que Jean René a entrepris. Il parle pêle-mêle de nuages, d'huîtres, de la création, de marche sur les galets, toujours avec légèreté et...

A sparkling exploration of the myths that J. R. R. Tolkien created around himself, examining the social and political worlds that surrounded the creator of Middle-Earth, by award-winning biographer D. J. Taylor. In the past seven decades J. R. R. Tolkien's major works—The Hobbit, The Lord of...

A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 A story-driven meditation on one of the oldest art forms and what it reveals about memory, creativity, and being human Why have we always made sculpture? What draws us to carve, cast, and mold forms from the materials around us? What do...

The instant New York Times bestseller Supermodel and philanthropist Gisele Bündchen shares personal stories, insights, and photos to explore lessons that have helped shape her life. Gisele Bündchen's journey began in southern Brazil, growing up with five sisters, playing volleyball, and...

A joia literária redescoberta que se tornou sensação mundial. Eleito um dos melhores livros do século XXI pelo The New York Times. Trilogia de Copenhagen é a obra-prima de Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976), uma das principais vozes da literatura dinamarquesa do século XX, e reúne três volumes...

The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary theorises that the solution is rediscovering the joy in the ordinary that we so often now forget to feel. Because we now expect the pleasure of a croissant, a hot shower, a yoga class, someone delivering our shopping to our door, we no longer feel its buzz. The joy of it whips through us like a bullet train, without pause. Catherine Gray was a grandmaster in the art of eye-rolling the ordinary and skilled in everlasting reaching. Until the black dog of depression forced her to rethink everything.

Ein kurzer, aber prägnanter amüsanter Essay über Michelangelo und zwei ganz kurze über Giotto und Cimabue. Die Liebe zum Ausdruck des Schrecklichen hat laut Stendhal in Michelangelo seine Vollendung gefunden, da das Teuflische und Böse innerhalb (natürlich nicht nur) der christlichen Religion fester Bestandteil ist und er gezwungen war innerhalb dieser Schwarz-Weiß-Systematik seine dankbaren Motive auszuwählen. Michelangelo wurde am 6. März 1475 in Caprese, Toskana geboren und verstarb am 18. Februar 1564 in Rom. Er war ein italienischer Maler, Bildhauer und Baumeister.

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France.

An Italian Mannerist architect and painter, Giorgio Vasari was acquainted with many of the most famous artists of his day. He is best-known today for his biographies of artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Giotto. This recording is read with clarity and authority by Neville Jason.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour In David...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Deepen your insight into and appreciation for the writings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis as you explore the untold story of how the First World War shaped their lives, faith, and writings. Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the...

George Gordon Byron was born in 1788, the son of the profligate 'Mad Jack' Byron, and succeeded to the title in 1798 moving to the family seat of Newstead Abbey. He attended Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he proved to be a poor scholar, preferring boxing, the low life and poetry, publishing his first volume of poems in 1806. In 1809, at 21, he embarked on a grand tour of Europe and on his return to England he married the humourless Annabella Milbanke, who gave birth to his daughter Augusta in 1815.

When Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.

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'.  

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing” (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography “that reads like a propulsive...