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Es imposible desvincular la obra de Julio Cortázar de las ciudades de Buenos Aires y de París, auténticos espacios míticos por pura definición, ya que ambas constituyen el marco iconográfico en el que se desarrollan las personales historias relatadas por él. El Buenos Aires del primer Cortázar y el París del segundo Cortázar se encuentran aquí en un juego de referencias que va más allá del simple recorrido urbano para poner al descubierto...
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A stunning biography of the magisterial author behind The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors Henry James is an absorbing portrait of one of the most complex and influential nineteenth-century American writers. Fred Kaplan examines James's brilliant and troubled family-from his brother, a famous psychologist, to his sister, who fought with mental illness-and charts its influence on the development of the artist and his work. The biography includes...
103) Milton
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In this 1879 addition to the English Men of Letters series, Pattison explores the life and work of John Milton, the author of the definitive Paradise Lost. The volume touches on Milton's pamphlets, famous works of poetry, and even his religious beliefs. Pattison judges only Shakespeare to be Milton's superior in the realm of English poetry.
104) La cartilla militar
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Coincidiendo con el ochenta aniversario del estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Las afueras recupera La cartilla militar, del escritor suizo en lengua alemana Max Frisch.
Lejos de ser un libro bélico al uso, la rememoración del servicio militar del autor supone una sucesión de días vacíos de contenido y exentos de cualquier rasgo de heroísmo. Esta experiencia ayudará a Frisch a explorar uno de sus temas predilectos: las tensiones a las...
105) Louder Than Goodbye
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Why do we mourn the passing of iconic figures such as Carrie Fisher, Prince or even an obscure regional horror movie host from our youth? Why do we mourn the passing of larger-than-life figures whom we never knew in life as if they were an old friend? Louder Than Goodbye: Reflections and Remembrances from Kurt Cobain to Mary Tyler Moore to the Most Sinister Man to Ever Walk the Earth is a collection of meditations on the passing of pop culture figures...
106) Re: Quin
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The influential, daring, and lacerating novels of Ann Quin were very much products of their time-but Quin herself had more than a little influence upon shaping the era in which she lived. Her works bracket the '60s and embrace their drive to experiment and break through to another form of consciousness, and so another means of telling stories, as J. G. Ballard, and B. S. Johnson were doing, and as, later-in many ways following directly in Quin's footsteps-Kathy...
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Written over an eleven-year period, these letters between Thomas Wolfe and Aline Bernstein chronicle a love affair that was by turns stormy, tender, bitter, and contrite. When Wolfe met Mrs. Bernstein shortly before his twenty-fifth birthday in 1925, she was forty-four, married, and at the pinnacle of a successful career as a stage and costume designer. Bernstein gave the young writer not only the unstinting love of an experienced older woman but...
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Es un libro que acercará al lector a su propio poder de sanación, de volver al amor hacia sí mismo, por medio de un trabajo de consciencia interior, pero también del viaje que plantea la autora de autodescubrimiento, en un camino de magia pura a través de una serie de rituales, donde el don más importante de cada quien será la capacidad de trabajar en su ser. Así que a través del relato de su historia personal, Erika llevará al lector por...
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When Albert Camus died in a car crash in January 1960 he was only 46 years old already a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a world figure author of the enigmatic The Stranger, the fable called The Plague, but also of the combative The Rebel which attacked the 'politically correct' among his con-temporaries. Thanks to his early literary achievement, his work for the under-ground newspaper Combat and his editorship of that daily in its Post-Liberation...
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Lluís Pasqual narra su relación con Federico García Lorca y se nos revela un extraordinario narrador. Un ensayo delicioso, de una sensibilidad y una fuerza narrativa excepcionales.
"Al igual que cuando uno se enamora por primera vez se está enamorando de alguien y del amor al mismo tiempo, García Lorca era para mí "el autor" y la Literatura: el descubrimiento de la compañía espiritual y de la capacidad de aventura que encierra un libro. Aunque...
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Raymond Chandler fue, junto con Dashiell Hammett, el renovador y el maestro indiscutido del género policiaco. Sus siete novelas tienen una categoría literaria sorprendente en un campo en el que nadie, hasta aquel momento, esperaba calidad. Y es que Chandler era, ante todo, un escritor inteligente.
Despedido de su empleo como ejecutivo de una compañía petrolera por su afición a la bebida, el hombre que reveló el lado oscuro de la opulenta sociedad...
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¡Cuántas vidas malogradas¡ ¡Cuánto ha perdido la sociedad con los castigos, la incomprensión y el autoritarismo en la escuela oprimiendo así la creatividad y desarrollo del niño, surgiendo su infravaloración e impidiéndole desarrollar todo su potencial que tanta repercusión podría tener en el futuro para el ser humano. Que nadie pueda decir como la nieta de Margareth Mead Mi abuela quiso que yo tuviera una buena educación, por eso no...
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The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963 it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles acclaimed author of many books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them vividly excavates this...
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Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia's autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical account of Jewish childhood and young adult life in Tsarist Russia. At a time when the vast majority of Jews resided in small market towns in the Pale of Settlement, Vygodskaia liberated herself from that world and embraced the day-to-day rhythms, educational activities, and new intellectual opportunities in the imperial capital of St. Petersburg....
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Taylor Caldwell Reback the international writer of 40 books who fell, in her later years, into the talons of the money hunters. The vulpine valentinos turned the Reback family into a Greek tragedy that was suited to be played on the ancient theater of Epidavros. Just as Taylor Caldwell wrote compelling drama in her books she inserts drama into every aspect of her life with mischeveous whimsy. Her life as a wife, mother, author and lover Taylor lived...
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In A Season in Hell, at the age of eighteen, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud predicted the rest of his life: 'My day is done; I'm leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs; lost climes will tan my skin.' Three years later, in 1876, he joined the Royal Army of the Dutch Indies as an infantryman and sailed for Java, where he promptly deserted and fled into the jungle. It was the most enigmatic passage in his life crowded with puzzles and contrarieties.
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"Con la gracia y, sobre todo, el rigor que han caracterizado sus más de 35 años de oficio periodístico, Felipe Zuleta Lleras reconstruye más de medio siglo de vivencias en el corazón de una de las familias presidenciales más recordadas:
los Lleras.
Diferentes anécdotas, algunas divertidas y otras no tanto, pero todas escritas con la amigable pluma de este alumno de Juan Gossain, enmarcan la trama de este libro que mediante los sentidos y el...
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The most intriguing puzzle in the world is the journey of human life. The author lets readers solve many puzzles for themselves by introducing different characters in the process of navigating through entertaining and captivating plots. These stories, gracefully illustrated by the author, make it clear that virtues, vices, sadness, and silliness are universal features regardless of language, geography, and the century during which one lives.
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I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did the panorama of the world I lived in - the things that made me.' Sean O'Casey, 1948Sean O'Casey's six-part Autobiography, originally published between 1939 and 1955, is an eloquently comprehensive self-portrait of an artist's life and times, unsurpassed in literature.Drums Under the Windows (1945) sees O'Casey's young (pre-writing) life taking shape amid...
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«Si quieres escribir una novela, la primera norma es saber decir no, rechazar las invitaciones.» ¿Por qué aceptar entonces la propuesta de pasar una noche en el museo Punta della Dogana?
A través del arte sutil de la digresión en la noche veneciana, Leila Slimani se adentra en el proceso creativo de su escritura, aborda los problemas de identidad y del pasado colonial, de moverse entre dos mundos, Oriente y Occidente, donde ella navega y se...
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