Titoli in Saggi

EL ESPERADO REGRESO DE MARUJA TORRES Vivir para contarlo. Tal vez sea una frase muy manida, pero lo cierto es que resume a la perfección el retorno a las librerías de una de las voces más descaradas de nuestro país. Maruja Torres saca punta a las rutinas de su día a día para conservar los...

Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. In God We Trust, Shepherd's wildly witty reunion with his Indiana hometown, disproves the adage “You can never go back.”

Virginia Woolf: The Essays contains the most important and impactful of Woolf's non-fiction writing, including five essay collections and her most renowned essay: A Room of One's Own. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the famous Bloomsbury Group.

Chi non vorrebbe conoscere il segreto per conservare i ricordi: dagli oggetti cui siamo affezionati ai momenti più importanti della nostra vita? Chi non vorrebbe ritrovare facilmente un'emozione racchiusa nella lettera che ci ha fatto innamorare, o impressa nel biglietto di un concerto indimenticabile? Non è solo una questione di ordine, ma di metodo e dimestichezza con le pratiche che, da sempre, si applicano al mondo degli archivi di aziende, istituzioni, famiglie.

Il giovane Kihlgren parte da un progetto di tutela dei borghi storici in abbandono e del loro paesaggio duro, intenso e desolato ma che ha cancellato per dar vita a un’immagine più spendibile, una propria caratteristica fondante, la sua intima spiritualità. Vuole affrontare questa esperienza in prima persona, cercando di vivere l’ascesi di questi territori, ma è a questo punto che arrivano le giovani pastorelle abruzzesi portando al fallimento incondizionato la ricerca di santità e purezza del giovane.

George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. 'The Lion and the Unicorn' was written in London during the worst period of the Blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His fullest political statement, it has been described as 'one of the most moving and incisive portraits of the English character' and is as relevant now as it ever has been.

Un ensayo breve y al mismo tiempo revelador sobre el pensamiento estético en el arte japonés. En él, Tanizaki Junichiro reflexiona sobre el amor por el detalle, el minimalismo, la disciplina y la sutileza que encarna el arte japonés en oposición a la contundencia de lo occidental. Un texto imprescindible para quien quiera empezar a comprender los preceptos del arte nipón.

From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos—in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social responsibility, exploding any received notions she comes across and...

This is an essay from the Favorite Essays collection.

‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’ The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. 

Сборник эссе прозаика, переводчика и критика Алексея Поляринова словно душевный разговор с хорошим другом о кино и литературе.

Books and Culture (1896) is a collection of reflective essays by American critic and editor Hamilton Wright Mabie, exploring why great literature endures and how reading shapes the inner life of the reader. Rather than treating books as sources of information, Mabie presents them as companions...

En gång i tiden var de gestalter och händelser som alla i Sverige kände till: Ane den gamle som offrade sina barn för att få evigt liv, Ingjald Illråde som enade riket genom svek och våld, slaget på Bråvallarna som var så väldigt att himmel och jord tycktes störta samman. Man läste...

I denna gripande essäbok utforskar författaren och journalisten Patrik Lundberg pappans roll. Genom tre tankeväckande essäer tar han oss med på en personlig och universell resa som berör allt från barnlängtan och väntans tider till de känslomässiga spåren av en far som kanske aldrig...

TITANICRESENÄRER, FRÄMLINGSLEGIONÄRER OCH SIARE utgör den sjunde och sista delen av den trespråkige författaren Bengt Pohjanens serie Tornedalska öden och äventyr, berättelser hämtade från ”Sveriges tysta myr” som inte ens Nils Holgersson upptäckte. I denna berättelse, som...

Efter den senaste tidens koranbränningar har samhällsdebatten präglats av diskussioner om gränserna för vår yttrandefrihet. Inte minst har diskussionerna handlat om vad som bör falla under hets mot folkgrupp. Men hur rimligt utformad är den lagen i sin formulering? Och hur ska...

« Ce n’est pas un hasard si, dans une culture raciste et sexiste, les femmes noires sont présentées comme un groupe désespéré. » Si vous n’allez pas bien, comment voulez-vous avoir la force de changer la société ? Voyant à quel point ses étudiantes souffraient psychiquement de leur condition de femmes noires (dépression, faible estime de soi, solitude, envies de suicide, etc.), bell hooks a créé un groupe de parole.

From her Academy Award-nominated screenplays (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia) to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron was one of the most gifted, prolific and versatile writers of our time. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what...

A treasure chest of never-before-collected essays from Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize–winning memoirist, and his boisterous brother Malachy, publishing on the 30th anniversary of Angela's Ashes, with a foreword by Colum McCann In 1996, a retired New York City high school English teacher...

From Manus to MONA to birds to the Black Summer, from the destruction of our natural world to the hope offered by Indigenous Australia to the growing corrosion of democracy, from Salman Rushdie to the Segal Report, family and love, Flanagan's non-fiction writings carry the author's trademark...