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Libro encuadernado en rústica con solapas · 464 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-84-493-3784-0
EAN 9788449337840
«Hace unos días una estudiante vino a verme. Me pidió que preparara un doctorado sobre el tema siguiente: Crítica ideológica de la semiología. Me parece que en esta pequeña escena están presentes todos los elementos a partir de los cuales es posible esbozar la situación de la semiología y su historia reciente: Se encuentra en ...
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Libro encuadernado en rústica con solapas · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-84-493-3782-6
EAN 9788449337826
En este libro, Roland Barthes pretende explicarse a sí mismo a través de pequeños fragmentos sobre su vida y su obra. Estamos lejos, pues, del Barthes erudito y mucho más cerca del hombre que se ocultó tras aquellas obras fundamentales que, en el contexto de la Francia efervescente de los años sesenta y setenta, revolucionaron ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-31848-5
EAN 9780593318485
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36645-3
EAN 9780571366453
In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was? but could in theory still happen.From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-3269-7
EAN 9781529032697
Orwell's interests were broad.He often wrote about everyday concerns such as transport, food and the weather. Turning to social issues, he exposed the plight of the poor and the unemployed. He dissected the idea of nationalism and he examined the failings of the Left.What emerges from his acute observation of English rituals, habits and attitudes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-2428-4
EAN 9781526624284
In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 26,59 €
ISBN 978-1-984856-02-9
EAN 9781984856029
In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories hes been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-582-4
EAN 9781784705824
Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrere has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: theology, historiography, reportage and memoir - among many others - are fused under the pressure of an inimitable combination ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-42167-3
EAN 9780241421673
By the end of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated poet, novelist, critic and thinker. Today his name is echoed as that of a 'great man' alongside Plato, Montaigne and Shakespeare. This book covers the last nine years of his life, partially spent having conversations with the young Johann ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139838-9
EAN 9780141398389
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-525-65726-2
EAN 9780525657262
Perhaps no other literary critic but Harold Bloom could'or would'undertake a project of this immensity. And certainly no other critic could bring to it the extraordinary knowledge, understanding, and insight that are the hallmark of Blooms every book. Ranging across centuries and continents, this final book of his career, gives us the inimitable critic on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5371-7
EAN 9780712353717
Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction. From the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the punishing dystopian visions of 1984 and beyond, the evolution of science fiction from the 1890s to the 1960s is a fascinating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-41800-0
EAN 9780241418000
The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, living among the destitute and dispossessed. Here ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5294-0673-3
EAN 9781529406733
Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit. In researching his monumental biography of Wilde Matthew Sturgis found, in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-5103-8
EAN 9781472951038
The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot put it, 'divides the world with Shakespeare, there being no third'. His, like ours, was a world of moral uncertainty and political violence, all of which made not only for the agony of exile but ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-842997-3
EAN 9780008429973
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-913097-01-1
EAN 9781913097011
Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and ...
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William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S.Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-25483-9
EAN 9780300254839
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78227-346-2
EAN 9781782273462
Stefan Zweig was one of the twentieth century's greatest authors and a tireless champion of freedom, tolerance and friendship across borders. Encounters and Destinies collects his most impassioned and moving tributes to his many illustrious friends and peers: literary, philosophical and artistic luminaries from across the Old Europe that Zweig loved so much, and which ...
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