Libros de Biografías y estudios de escritores, página 58 de 429

Julio Nombela reconstruye la vida humilde, mágica y romántica de Guatavo Adolfo Bécquer.

Aquest llibre, continuació de Josep Maria Folch i Torres (1880-1910). Compromís polític i creació literària, és l´estudi del conjunt de l´obra literària infantil i juvenil de Josep Maria Folch i Torr

In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of todays most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bards own immortal list of a mans seven ages in As You Like It, Bate deduces the crucial events of Shakespeares life and connects them to his world and work as never before. is unsurpassed artist came to be.

Amb motiu del seu vuitantè aniversari, Josep Tomàs Cabot (Manresa, 1930) publica les seves memòries per tal de donar testimoniatge de gairebé cinc dècades de feina feta, sense descans ni interrupció.

Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through life. It is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born-story teller mesmerizing us with truth.

Éste es un libro sobre el poeta y escritor Antonio Machado Ruiz, que en el año 1969 fue declarado por la UNESCO poeta de la Humanidad . En este trabajo he reunido una serie de datos sobre su vida, d

La clave de «Y va de cuento» de Ayala es, en palabras de Carolyn Richmond, una «indagación literaria, una auténtica aventura crítica» sobre un texto breve y relativamente desconocido de Francisco Aya

Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' -- her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. 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, written mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates on her fascinating private life. From early childhood at the end of the 19th century, through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan, Agatha shares the details of her varied and sometimes complex life with real passion and openness. Then, in 2008, Agatha Christie's grandson made a remarkable discovery. While clearing out her old house in preparation for its opening to the public, Greenway in Devon, a box of old tape reels was found to contain the recordings of Agatha dictating her Autobiography for her typist. These remarkable recordings are not only an amazingly rare example of Agatha's voice, but they also partly explain the engaging nature of her Autobiography - for they reveal the normally reclusive Agatha telling her own story in a lively, spontaneous and often conspiratorial way, whose passion in talking about her life is captured in the printed Autobiography. Now this new edition comes complete with a CD of highlights from these priceless tapes, giving Agatha Christie's millions of fans the opportunity to hear the Queen of Crime's story in her own words, and rediscover her remarkable full story in this special edition of her book, which is newly introduced by Mathew Prichard, the grandson who discovered the tapes

"I''ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it awayto you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography."Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the story of his life. His innovative notionto "talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment"meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be "dead, and unaware, and indifferent," and that he was therefore free to speak his "whole frank mind."The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain''s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain''s works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain''s uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain''s authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended.Editors: Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick

El pasaje de Federico García Lorca en América fue decisivo, tanto para afirmar su prestigio como por las resonancias específicas que tuvo en su obra. El viaje al Río de la Plata en 1934, supo de una estadia bastante prolongada en Montevideo que marco, para siempre, a sus coetaneos y que continuo viva en la memoria de quienes los sucedieron. Pero, como esta investigacion se encarga de probarlo, la presencia y la polemica sobre la obra y la persona de Lorca es anterior prolongandose hasta la actualidad. Moviendose entre los discursos de la cronica, la pesquisa de naturaleza biografica y el ensayo critico, esta investigacion busca contribuir con informaciones desconocidas sobre Lorca; revisar la genesis y las repercusiones fuertes, tanto en el campo literario y espectacular como en el ideologico y aun el intersubjetivo, de la obra y la persona del poeta andaluz en el territorio fisico y simbolico mencionados. La perspectiva que se ensaya aqui, sin ceñirse a nacionalismo alguno, se propone desde un locus uruguayo y en funcion de los problemas y los debates esteticos, culturales y politicos que la figura de Garcia Lorca propuso a este espacio.

SE recogen en este volumen las actas del Congreso Internacional «Compromisos y palabras bajo el franquismo. Recordando a Blas de Otero (1979-2009)», celebrado en Granada entre los días 27 y 29 de ene

Autor de espíritu crítico, precursor de la novela por entregas de tradición anglosajona y padre de personajes emblemáticos como Oliver Twist o David Copperfield, la popularidad de su obra ha resistido el paso de modas y epocas, otorgandole un lugar indiscutible entre los clasicos de la literatura universal.

Genios con huella nos aproxima a la apasionante vida y a la creación de nueve talentos asombrosos, de muy distintas ramas del saber y del arte: Ramón y Cajal, Darwin, Chaplin, Einstein, Chanel, Marx, Lennon, Colon y Beethoven. Sus influencias, aun siendo muy diversas, pueden apreciarse todavia hoy. Y distintos son tambien los modos de aproximarse de los autores de cada estudio: desde la madurez de la reflexion a la frescura e inmediatez del contacto asombrado con las obras, de la gran sintesis al analisis meticuloso. De cualquier modo se ofrecen estimulantes perspectivas para entender a estos colosos a los que tanto debemos.

Obras completas de Francisco Ayala. En este segundo volumen se reúnen las tres autobiografías escritas por el autor.