A perfect match of author and subject. In an effort to know one of her favorite writers better. Janet Malcolm -- who has brought light to the dark and complicated corners of psychoanalysis and has exp…
"La photo en noir et blanc d'une petite fille en maillot de bain foncé, sur une plage de galets. En fond, des falaises. Elle est assise sur un rocher plat, ses jambes robustes étendues bien droites de…
Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the…
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us …
Shelve A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is an enigmatic and nearly indescribable book, a small classic of poetic prose whose author has been compared wi…
Shelve By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
On the longest day of the summer, twelve people sit cooped up with their families in a faded Scottish cabin park. The endless rain leaves them with little to do but watch the other residents.
En estas páginas Primo Levi, Franz Kafka, Evgenia Ginzburg, Milena Jesenska, Dolores Ibárruri o Walter Benjamin mezclan sus tragedias con las de personajes ficticios. Todos ellos comparten un estigma:…
”இத்தகைய நவீன வாழ்வின் பரிமாணங்களை நாக்ராஜனிடமோ காணமுடியாது. குற்றம் உடலரசியல் பின்புலத்தை உட்செரித்த மையமான நோக்கமும் அவர்களுக்கில்லை. லக்ஷ்மி சரவணக்குமாரின் எழுத்து மேற்சொன்னவற்றின் மேல்நின்று காண்…
Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to c…
Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who repla…
En la ciudad de Córdoba, en vísperas de la Revolución de 1868, el joven e idealista Quintín García Roelas, se adentra en el clima social, impregnándose de una mezquindad y maldad que sabotean sus nobl…
A parable about love, literature and fanaticism. A young university student becomes obsessed with a magical book that delves into the dangerous natures of love and self. Abandoning his studies and his…
Impiadosa y desafiante, la poesía de José Luis Piquero escarbasin anestesia en la propia biografía para alumbrar los complejosmecanismos que rigen las relaciones humanas, en busca quizáde una redenció…
Shelve Cincuenta poemas. Antología personal 1989-2014
Este libro tiene la virtud de hacer revivir en el lector esa conciencia poetica que late en lo mas hondo de la realidad humana. En definitiva se trata de una antologia que despertara en el lector el a…
Shelve Cartas del vivir: antologia de su epistolario sobre el amor, la doledad, la muerte, el sexo, la dificultad, el viaje a toledo y ronda, la creacion, dios
This is a secret history of modern times, told by way of what conventional history tries to exclude. Lipstick Traces tells a story as disruptive and compelling as the century itself. Hip, metaphorical…
Shelve Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Dueño de un lenguaje y un mundo que lo han convertido en una de las voces más brillantes de la poesía española última, Carlos Marzal ha trazado con sus sucesivos libros una trayectoria de gran coheren…
La tarea del héroe -Premio Nacional de Ensayo 1982- es un libro escrito para fomentar el gusto por dos rebeldías, una contra el orden y otra contra el desorden. La obra se articula sobre tres grandes …
On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, the Godley family gathers at the bedside of Adam, a renowned mathematician and their patriarch. But they are not alone in their vigil. Around them hove…
The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragic melodrama. Ivanov, a young estate owner, is too intelligent and too bored to endure his provincial …
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost…
Angustiada por la inminencia de una decisión que puede afectar a toda su vida, a su matrimonio y a su familia, una mujer de cuarenta años acude a pedir consejo a su antiguo maestro de la universidad. …
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decayin…
Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Po…
Shelve The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great …
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Inste…
Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds himself accosted on all …
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