In the early fall of 1958, the notorious Olympia Press in Paris published a novel entitled Candy, an erotic, Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide by one Maxwell Kenton, pseudonym of its coauthors, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg.
'An inspiring and necessary book that challenges the narratives we set for our lives and reveals the beauty beyond them' CLEMENTINE FORDAlexandra Collier was a writer living in a light-filled Brooklyn brownstone in New York with the man she loved.
'My favourite person on the politics of parenthood' Pandora Sykes'Exhilarating, infuriating, urgent and human' Daisy Buchanan'A blazing, brilliant read .
The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the complexities of living, loving and language, Xiaolu Guo is one of the most valuable writers in the world' DEBORAH LEVYThe world can seem strange and lonely when you step away from your family and everything you have tried to call your own.
Céleste Albaret trabajó en casa de Proust como ama de llaves, mensajera, amiga y enfermera los últimos nueve años de su vida en los que, ya gravemente enfermo, escribiría En busca del tiempo perdido.
A PULITZER PRIZE 2024 FINALIST FOR MEMOIRONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE GUARDIAN AND PROSPECT'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, ATLANTIC, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL S TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Extraordinary.
In diesem Buch nimmt sich ein Literaturwissenschaftler, der ein Berufsleben lang immer das Andere, Literatur von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern, betrachtet hat, einmal das Eigene vor, ohne aber jenes Andere zu lassen.
Bernd Neumann legte 1996 nach jahrelangen Recherchen eine detaillierte, äußerst materialreiche und fundierte Biografie des Schriftstellers Uwe Johnson vor.
An impetuous outsider who delighted in confronting American hypocrisy and prudery, Barney Rosset liberated American culture from the constraints of Puritanism.
*A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year**Winner of the 2024 PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* The best book I've read on George Eliot John Carey, Sunday TimesAn exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and lifeWhen she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel.
Publicado por primera vez en 1992, y atenuado hoy su componente informativo por el avance tecnológico, Siluetas es un conjunto de ejercicios interrumpidos apenas por el sentimiento dominante: la admiración.
«Escritos del exilio» ofrece una faceta sorprendente del autor de «Zama» y se presenta como un valioso testimonio de la vida cultural del Madrid de la transición.
'Si no me definiera a mí misma por mí misma, me meterían en las fantasías de los demás para mí y me comerían viva' Una niña negra abre los ojos en el Harlem de los años treinta.
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as "e;Sleep.
The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe.
Anyone who has come under the spell of Elisabeth Ogilvies novels to bound to wonder about this writer who, for more than fifty years, has crafted one memorable book after another: historical fiction, mysteries, young adult stories, even a gothic novel.
An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Millerand to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape ';the air-conditioned nightmare' of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's critical reputationif not his popular readershiphas been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's blistering critique in Sexual Politics, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and art.
Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time-and placed in biographical and literary contextOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment.
A memoir from the beloved author behind the multimillion-copy bestselling A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Handler's memoir, although subtle, ironic and full of dry wit, still pulses with that same childlike enthusiasm for books.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become realAmericans, even at the expense of their shared family history.
An impassioned plea and workable solution for women and men to imagine a better world, embrace their differences, find ways to end oppression, and learn how to work better together.
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.
Heimito von Doderer (1896-1966), zeitlebens ein Außenseiter, ein Mann der «bewußten Debauche» und der subtilen psychologischen Wahrnehmung, ist ein Kronzeuge der österreichischen Selbstfindung.
Die erfolgreichste Börsenexpertin Deutschlands wird sie genannt und "Börsenoma" - bekannt durch ihre Kolumnen bei der BILD-Zeitung und durch Funk und Fernsehen.
