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Los secretos de diez grandes clásicos de la literatura, explicados por un maestro de la narrativa.A finales de los años cuarenta del siglo pasado, el director de una revista literaria norteamericana pidio al ya celebre escritor britanico William Somerset Maugham que elaborase una lista con las, segun el, diez mejores novelas de la literatura universal. La sugerente lista que Maugham ofrecio como respuesta dio pie, poco despues, a que el propio autor escribiera los memorables ensayos sobre el arte de la ficcion que componen este volumen. Maugham comienza cada capitulo con un delicioso retrato de la vida y el ambiente en que se movieron escritores de la talla de Fielding, Stendhal, Melville o Tolstoi. Sigue un original analisis de estas novelas ya clasicas (entre las que se cuentan Orgullo y prejuicio, David Copperfield, Cumbres borrascosas o Los hermanos Karamazov), realizado con humor, ironia y, sobre todo, con la pericia de quien conoce el oficio de escritor desde dentro. Porque, a traves de estos ensayos, Maugham nos brinda las claves para descubrir como se crea un personaje, como se mantiene la intensidad narrativa o cual es el mejor punto de vista para relatar un asunto literario. Por ultimo, apunta Maugham, el lector debe poner algo de su parte para que se cumpla el pacto literario: al menos, ha de poseer suficiente imaginacion para ser capaz de interesarse por la vida, las alegrias y las penas, las tribulaciones, los peligros y las aventuras de los personajes.

Una hoja de ruta para novelistas, dramaturgos y guionistasPartiendo del concepto antropológico y mitológico del «viaje del héroe» (desarrollado por Joseph Campbell y Carl G. Jung), Christopher Vogler

Una vindicación del vínculo de la amistad, la familia escogida que nos permite crear nuevas formas de vida.¿Cómo podemos hablar de amistad, contar la historia de esa otra familia, la que llamamos elegida, que nos permite inventar nuevas formas de vivir? La narradora se embarca en una busqueda de su pasado y explora la multiplicidad de conexiones que influyen en su vida. Intercalado con fotografias ineditas de archivos queer, este bello y luminoso ensayo es un intento de expresar el poder politico de una relacion esencial para el colectivo mas alla del amor romantico, el deseo y el sexo, asi como su capacidad de reinvencion.Un deseo desmesurado de amistad plantea interrogantes mas amplios sobre el linaje: ¿como construir una genealogia alternativa, como rescatar del olvido las vidas que la historia desdeña, y como inscribirnos en una narrativa que ya no es meramente personal sino compartida? Porque la investigacion que aqui se emprende tambien esta dirigida a los demas: Me digo que, puestos a inventar nuevas historias familiares, mejor aunarlas con otras.De la llamada Casa Susanna, un espacio de libertad en la Norteamerica de la caza de brujas macartista, a la reivindicacion de la obra pionera de la extraordinaria fotografa Donna Gottschalk, pasando por la documentacion que se conserva de la militancia de Act Up en su lucha contra el sida, este libro reflexivo y reivindicativo exalta el poder de la amistad como vinculo, que acaso debiera poder formalizarse, como el matrimonio.

Hubo otra revolución en el país galo antes de 1789: la de María de Francia. Si no se cuenta en los manuales es porque, a diferencia de la primera, fue una revolución fallida, cuyas reivindicaciones no llegaron a convertirse en arietes capaces de derribar las puertas de la Bastilla. Incluso la memoria de Maria se perdio con el tiempo, y su verdadera identidad quedo desdibujada. Sin embargo, sus ideas sobre la mujer, la relacion entre los sexos y el amor conformaron una nueva vision del mundo, por primera vez totalmente femenina, en la que la mujer quedaba liberada de la jaulas ideologicas en las que habia sido constreñida, durante la Alta Edad Media, por la convergencia de la virilidad germanica y la misoginia monastica. Esta vision represiva y condenatoria de la mujer empezo a resquebrajarse en el siglo XII cuando, en los circulos aristocraticos franceses, estallo la revolucion del amor cortes encabezada por Maria. En parte con sus propias palabras, en parte inspirando a otros con sus rompedoras ideas, Maria abandero una nueva condicion femenina, exigiendo libertad sexual y sentimental para las mujeres. Por ello fue vilipendiada y nunca se reconocio su altura como intelectual, aunque su nueva gramatica de las relaciones erotico-sentimentales lo que popularmente ha pasado a la historia bajo la etiqueta del amor cortes causo furor entre sus contemporaneos.Hubo una mujer en la Edad Media que escribio sobre el amor libre, la violacion, el adulterio, el deseo. Pero durante siglos su verdadera identidad fue un misterio. Chiara Mercuri ha resuelto el enigma en este libro. La Repubblica

UNA HISTORIA FASCINANTE Y ACCESIBLE DEL MILAGRO CULTURAL DE LA PALABRA ESCRITA, DESDE EL MUNDO ANTIGUO HASTA LA ÉPOCA MODERNA.Desde las simples formas representativas que se usaban en el antiguo Egipto para registrar los trueques hasta los sofisticados recursos tipograficos disponibles en un ordenador del siglo XXI, podemos afirmar que los distintos periodos de la evolucion de la escritura conforman la historia de la civilizacion misma.En Los nombres del mundo, Ewan Clayton analiza esta evolucion y explora su impacto social y cultural: la invencion del alfabeto; la sustitucion del rollo de papiro por el codice en la epoca tardorromana; el perfeccionamiento en el siglo XV de la imprenta que se vale de tipos moviles y la consiguiente extension de la alfabetizacion; la industrializacion de los procesos de impresion durante la Revolucion francesa; el impacto que tuvo en la palabra escrita el modernismo a principios del siglo XX, y los significativos cambios que la era digital ha supuesto en nuestros habitos de escritura en el comienzo de este siglo. El esclarecedor libro de Clayton es un lugar ideal para iniciar una exploracion de la mas sofisticada de las tecnologias: la escritura. Daily TelegraphUn libro que ningun bibliofilo se debe perder. Publishers WeeklyEsta fascinante y bien documentada ruta que propone el caligrafo y exmonje britanico Ewan Clayton repasa la evolucion del alfabeto latino, desde el pincel hasta los pixeles. BabeliaEl libro es, mas que una historia de la escritura, un relato de la cultura contada por las letras, los jeroglificos, las plumas, los pergaminos, las maquinas de escribir y los procesadores de texto. El Mundo

Nick Hornby conecta la vida y obra de dos genios a los que adora.¿Qué diantre tienen que ver Charles Dickens y Prince, un escritor británico del siglo XIX y un músico estadounidense del XX? De entrada, que Nick Hornby siente pasion por ambos. Pero hay mas. Coincidencias tal vez curiosas, acaso significativas que los conectan.Por ejemplo: antes de cumplir los treinta ambos tenian ya una solida carrera, habian dado a luz unas cuantas obras maestras y eran muy influyentes. Por ejemplo: ambos vivieron una infancia marcada por la pobreza, mostraron un decidido sentido del negocio y en algun momento se sintieron estafados. Por ejemplo: ambos murieron a los cincuenta y ocho años. Por ejemplo: ambos estaban obsesionados con el trabajo y eran hiperproductivosNacidos en dos continentes distintos con mas de un siglo de diferencia Dickens en Portsmouth en 1812, Prince en Mineapolis en 1958, estos dos genios comparten mas puntos de conexion de lo que pueda parecer a simple vista. Hay en sus vidas y sus carreras paralelismos que le permiten al autor trazar un sugestivo, apasionante doble retrato.Con el dinamismo y el entusiasmo habituales en Nick Hornby, este es un ensayo a un tiempo ameno y enjundioso, divertido y profundo, ludico y serio. Y sobre todo: una lectura apasionante.

Veinte lecciones vitales de nuestros clásicos, más actuales que nunca, comentadas por una de las mayores expertas en literatura hispánica.Rosa Navarro, con una gran dosis de sabiduría y cercanía, nos invita a compartir mesa con veinte obras de nuestra literatura para que asistamos a un banquete unico. En el, aprenderemos que el origen de lo que muchas veces damos por sentido comun, se encuentra en obras literarias escritas hace mucho tiempo. Fragmentos breves pero intensos, elegidos por su belleza, su ingenio y su sorprendente actualidad.

DEL LABERINTO SE SALE LEYENDO«Uno no es lo que es por lo que escribe, sino por lo que ha leído».Borges«[En un periodo de bloqueo creativo] únicamente podía leer los cuentos de Borges».Han Kang«El cen

From the elegance of the grand salons of Prideaux Place, Padstows most stately of homes, to the wild and remote Cornish coastline, Rosamunde Pilcher captured in her novels Cornwalls unique, diverse beauty and compelling charm. WINNER of the Gorsedh Kernows Holyer an Gof Awards 2023.Rosamunde Pilcher grew up near St Ives, publishing her first novel at the age of 25. Cornwall remained her long-standing inspiration with most of her novels set in this wonderfully diverse landscape. Her most famous novel, The Shell Seekers, catapulted Rosamunde to international fame and created a dedicated fan-base.This new Pitkin guidebook takes the reader on a tour of the key areas and places that inspired Pilchers creative writing. Clamber down the steep Bedruthan Steps and enjoy the traditional Cornish welcome in the beautiful harbour town of St Ives. St Michaels Mount, one of the most famous sights in Cornwall, sits majestically off shore while the sound of the waves battering the coastline is a key element in enjoying a visit to Lands End. These sites and many more informed Rosamunde Pilchers writing, making her novels and short stories some of the most popular and cherished around the world, several of which have been adapted for television.

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she left for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures, which double as a manifesto for her own, notoriously difficult work, to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members clubs and public spaces up and down the country. The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writers thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life. Listen to Me brings Steins sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.

How Engaging Horror Helps Us Fear Rightly Is it possible to be scaredin a good way? In Be Afraid, theologian and psychological scientist Kutter Callaway explores the surprising relationship between fear, horror, and Christian faith. Drawing from film, psychology, and theology, this book engages popular horror narratives to ask what our deepest fears reveal about what we truly love, long for, and believe.Be Afraid explores how our Christian faith is made better when we engage with the horror genre. According to Callaway, Christian life isnt about eliminating fear, its about redirecting it. This book offers a fresh, often funny, and deeply honest theological reflection on the shared fears and anxieties of our culture that is as engaging in a classroom as it is in a book club.By exploring the genre of horror through the lens of Christian faith, Be Afraid: demonstrates how that faith is enriched by engaging with horror; offers theological insight into our cultures fascination with the terrifying; helps readers learn how to redeem real world fears; and includes discussion questions for individual or group reflection. Scripture itself contains many stories filled with horror and gore: Jael and Sisera, John the Baptists beheading, and even the crucifixion of Jesus. Be Afraid argues that engaging with horror storieswhether in the media or in the Biblecan benefit our spiritual lives by teaching us how to fear rightly.The Bible calls on Christians to think about what is good, beautiful, and true. And sometimes, the truth is horrifying.About the Series The Discovering God in Pop Culture series seeks to demonstrate how Christian faith is enriched and made better by critical and creative engagement with pop culture. In each volume, readers explore a popular topic through the lens of the Christian faith.

The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine weaves together biography, history and personal reflection in a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history. A sex clinic housed in a stately mansion in Weimar Berlin. A preventive health centre in pre-NHS London. A radical institute of psychiatry and medical philosophy in a post-war French chateau. A feminist health centre born from the womens liberation movement in Geneva. A grassroots research initiative featuring clinical trials run by and for people with AIDS in 1980s-90s New York. Each of these clinics emerged in response to seismic political shifts and era-defining global events yet at their heart lie the stories of extraordinary individuals who dared to reimagine how we care for one another. At once deeply personal and sharply analytical, Benoit Loiseaus investigation is anchored in his own encounters with medical care and in the quiet influence of one health worker who shaped his life: his mother. In moving and reflective interludes addressed to her, Loiseau illuminates the emotional and ethical stakes of medicine today. Reframing Michel Foucaults seminal text, The Death of the Clinic is a radical invitation to reimagine the clinic not as a fixed institution, but as a living, evolving practice rooted in care, resistance and collective imagination.

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. She has selected twenty-six of these narratives to share with the world. Yazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five, who have witnessed what history may one day remember as one of the most savage military offensives of our time. Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable loss homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated and many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks. But these survivors remain determined to share their stories, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate. The title, Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, is adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombing.

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art and ideas. Could academia live up to the hopes and dreams he had invested in it? Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of reading and writing seemed even higher. Ambivalence explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. Its at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life. In vivid present-tense fragments, Dillon describes his first encounters with writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. He recalls being seduced by ambivalence, ambiguity and androgyny on the page and in the life he hoped his reading would transfigure. The era he describes seemed to demand new ways of thinking about aesthetics and politics. Today, when rights are fragile, arts and humanities attacked, and students dismissed as radicals or narcissists, Ambivalence is an argument for the poetic and revolutionary force of changing yourself and even the world by changing what you know.

Um panorama — abrangente, crítico e acessível — da ficção brasileira das últimas décadas. Afinal, o que é o contemporâneo? Quando ocorreu seu início? Quando terá seu fim? Pode ser entendido — ou conf

Tina Hodgkinson knows her Christie and she knows her London, and the result is Agatha Christies London, an indispensable guide to the capital that Agatha knew and loved and wrote about. Tony Medawar, former director of the International Agatha Christie FestivalLondon had a special place in Agatha Christies heart. In her childhood, she would visit the capital to stay with her Auntie Grannie; as an adult, she owned several homes in the city. A reoccurring location in her stories, London is where Poirot and Hastings, and Tommy and Tuppence reside, and even Miss Marple cannot resist a trip up to town to shop in its department stores.Avoid red herrings, examine the clues to discover several of her former homes, use your little grey cells to detect where she worked during the Second World War, and probe where the former Detection Club met. Gather the evidence to reveal the fashionable restaurants, luxury hotels and other locations that she and her characters frequented.On completion of your investigation, your denouement will reveal the final twist: just how important London was to Agatha and her stories.

A infância precisa ser inventada. É uma construção pessoal, iluminada pelo lúdico, com a força da metáfora. Há que se interpretar um mundo que não se domina, de que não se tem conhecimento suficiente

Uma interpretação exemplar da obra do escritor argentino Julio Cortázar. Enquanto deslinda as linhas mestras da ficção cortazariana, Arrigucci investiga questões colocadas pela melhor literatura cont

The studies collected in this volume offer multidisciplinary perspectives on modern Gdask. The chapters provide insight into the citys literature and culture, analysing works by leading Polish authors, exploring the complexities of the commemoration of the Jewish presence, as well as illuminating the citys Christian heritage, enshrined in its Bibles and churches. A similar focus on the past and the present marks the studies of the models of education in Gdask before the Second World War and after the fall of communism. Finally, linguistic analyses of internet corpora address the issues of the living language spoken in Gdask as well as used to describe the city. Collectively, the contributors paint a picture of an open, vibrant and innovative city proud of its multicultural and multilingual past.

Every person contains a degree of otherness, as identity is formed by social belonging. However, group solidarity can lead as well to exclusion, stigmatization, and even violence against those deemed different. They face trauma and contempt, suffering in silence that is engendered by shame or enforced by dominant communities and narratives, while the silence surrounding victimization further deepens the harm and isolation experienced by those affected. This volume brings together analyses examining past and present forms of marginalization related to various groups of excluded people. The essays it contains call for the recognition of those often ignored by society and attempt to give a voice to the unheared.