Titoli in Autori

In Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: what makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world? How do we safeguard our love of truth from our lust for power? What slakes our longings and what redeems our losses?...

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person, Irving began writing when he was 14, the same age at which he began to wrestle at Exeter. He competed as a wrestler for 20 years, was certified as a referee at 24, and coached the sport until he was 47.

Llewelyn Powys’s penetrating portrait of James Thomson (B.V.) tracks the poet’s stark journey from army schoolmaster to the uncompromising author of The City of Dreadful Night. With vivid, unsentimental clarity, Powys illuminates Thomson’s friendships, London solitude, bouts of insomnia...

Nerval, qui fréquente la bohème rive-gauche et le « Cénacle » romantique, se prend en 1836 d'une folle passion pour l'actrice Jenny Colon, qui incarne tous ses rêves mais qui le délaisse pour se marier avec un musicien. Elle constituera par la suite l'une des figures féminines idéales, où se mêlent, dans un syncrétisme caractéristique de la pensée de Nerval, Marie, Isis, la reine de Saba... Cette passion malheureuse détermine un des traits caractéristiques de son œuvre : l'épanchement du songe dans la vie réelle, le fantastique et le rêve étant pour lui sources d'inspiration.

Toda novela genuina nace en diálogo o discusión con la tradición literaria. Entre los narradores hispanoamericanos contemporáneos son pocos los que escriben tan imbuidos de esa dinámica como el colombiano Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Este ensayo cuenta cómo Vásquez, en novelas como Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana o El ruido de las cosas al caer se enfrenta a la angustia de la influencia y crea a sus precursores.

Bloomsbury presents My Invented Country by Isabel Allende, read by Cynthia Farrell. 'A stunningly intimate memoir ... Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents’ home in Chile...

The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left—hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals—came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed...

Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best. Emerging at the height of "hip," Advertisements is at once a chronicle of a crucial era in the...

Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2020 The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’...

Deu anys després de la mort del seu pare, el narrador d'aquest llibre decideix escriure-la. Amb l'ombra del suïcidi que priva el dol, es pregunta: és possible trobar les paraules d'un comiat que no es va produir? Així, aquest relat personal i íntim esdevé una recerca per entendre com es forgen els vincles familiars, a què condemna el silenci, on s'amaga la veritat d'una història. Però l'escriptura falla, i l'autor recorre a les biografies d'escriptors que es van suïcidar i a les seves darreres notes per reconstruir un adeu possible, temptatiu.

Pasolini disse che il capocannoniere del campionato è sempre il miglior poeta dell’anno. Lo scrittore, noto come Stukas nei campi delle borgate romane, era tifoso del Bologna. Il suo idolo era Biavati, inventore del doppio passo, e una volta cercò di scritturare Bulgarelli per un film. Calcio e letteratura hanno spesso incrociato le loro strade, come se avessero qualcosa di ineffabile in comune. Gabriele d’Annunzio è stato tra i precursori italiani del gioco, Umberto Saba ha cantato la solitudine del portiere, Mario Luzi ha pianto il Grande Torino schiantatosi a Superga.

Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography...

Considerado uno de los mayores poetas y escritores de la lengua portuguesa y de la literatura europea, su enigmática vida, su forma descarnada de ver el mundo y la forma de sus versos han motivado el asombro de los críticos y la aceptación de un mundo poético nuevo “su mundo”, en el que Pessoa se desdobló en varias personalidades conocidas como heterónimos.

Este audiolibro es un boleto de entrada para una fiesta en la que todos hablan, todos gritan, todos opinan, se contradicen y hasta dicen mentiras. Bienvenidos. "Soledad & Compañía" es un retrato humano, fresco e irreverente de Gabriel García Márquez donde se entretejen las voces de sus amigos, sus seres queridos y hasta sus detractores, quienes nunca antes habían compartido sus historias con el primerio Nobel.

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer.

Frank Harris, a journalist and editor, delighted in Oscar Wilde's genial wit and self-assurance. Wilde's verbal charms evoked Harris' financial and emotional support when Victorian England disdained the playwright for his paganism and imprisoned him for "homosexual offenses". Harris relates the proceedings of Wilde's trial and the malice that sent him to France after release from prison.

Осенью 1866 года двадцатилетняя стенографистка Анна Сниткина подала заявление о приёме на работу к писателю, которого она боготворила, — Фёдору Достоевскому. Сниткина, называвшая себя «девушкой шестидесятых», выросла в эпоху первого в России феминистского движения, а Достоевский — известный радикал, ставший великим писателем, — впечатлил её своими произведениями. Однако при личной встрече Анна увидела Фёдора Михайловича несчастным, сломленным, измученным, страдающим эпилепсией и погрязшим в пагубной страсти к азартным играм.

Dans Les Moissons funèbres, livre devenu instantanément un classique de la littérature américaine, Jesmyn Ward raconte les difficultés rencontrées par la population rurale du Sud des États-Unis à laquelle elle appartient et porte tant d'affection. En l'espace de quatre ans, cinq jeunes hommes noirs avec lesquels Jesmyn Ward a grandi sont morts dans des circonstances violentes. Ces décès n'avaient aucun lien entre eux si ce n'est le spectre puissant de la pauvreté et du racisme qui balise l'entrée dans l'âge adulte des jeunes hommes issus de la communauté africaine-américaine.

Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns – ein zeithistorisches Ereignis Der Historiker Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk ediert erstmals Auszüge aus dem Tagebuchwerk von Wolf Biermann. In »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin« finden sich bewegende Einblicke in das Leben und Denken eines Mannes, der wie kein...

Zum 100. Todestag Rilkes: ein eindringliches Porträt des großen Dichters! Als Rainer Maria Rilke vor 100 Jahren starb, lagen ruhelose Jahrzehnte hinter ihm. Ob in der Künstlerkolonie Worpswede, bei dem Vorbild Rodin in Paris oder bei den Frauen, die ihn durchs Leben trugen, es hielt ihn nirgends lange. Der europaweit bestens vernetzte Einzelgänger, der bis zu Tolstoi nach Russland kam, wollte Bewegungsfreiheit, Berührungen, Resonanzen.