Primera novela del ciclo 'El laberinto mágico', que Max Aub concibió con la intención de retomar el género de la novela histórica del pasado inmediato, y con la voluntad testimonial de dar cuenta de la Guerra Civil española.
Sie bricht alle Rekorde der Musikgeschichte, füllt die größten Stadien der Welt und wird von Donald Trump gefürchtet: Taylor Swift ist das größte, einflussreichste Pop-Phänomen unserer Zeit.
Creador de un universo propio ubicado en un único espacio, Arrigunaga, Ramiro Pinilla ha convertido los acantilados de Getxo en un mundo literario consagrado para siempre.
A la mayor parte de nuestros personajes favoritos de ficción no los hemos elegido por sus virtudes, sino más bien por la fascinación y la inquietud que nos suscita su vileza.
Margarete Gmeiner ist Witwe und siebzig Jahre alt, als sie sich die Frage stellt, warum die Liebe nur für junge Menschen Glück und Aufbruch bedeuten soll, denn zwischen ihr und dem ebenfalls seit Jahren verwitweten ehemaligen Schneidermeister Wolfgang Burger hat sich eine innige Freundschaft angebahnt, die beiden ein neues Lebensglück verheißt.
Estamos al frente de un libro que es a la vez una antología del cuento, una reflexión de carácter ensayístico sobre el género y un reportaje a la cuentística contemporánea, representada por autores y autoras de innegable trascendencia en el panorama literario colombiano.
James, autor de títulos clásicos como Otra vuelta de tuerca o Las bostonianas, fue un autor necesario que vertebró el siglo xix y el xx, tanto en Europa como en América, con sus ficciones, pero también con sus lúcidos y penetrantes ensayos.
Das ungewöhnliche Standardwerk zu Heinrich Kleist endlich als Taschenbuch: Keine Monografie sondern eine Kleist-Enzyklopädie, ein Kaleidoskop psychologischer, literarischer, philosophischer Themen zum Werk und der Person Kleist.
Von der Kritik als unbedingt lesenswerte Biographie gewürdigt, zeichnet sie sich durch eine Fülle von Material aus und bietet ein anschauliches Bild von der Beziehung zu Alma Mahler-Werfel.
Dieter Wellershoff folgt der Darstellung von Liebe und Leidenschaft, Verführung und Ehebruch in exemplarischen Werken der Literatur der letzten zweihundert Jahre, wobei er das Werk und die jeweilige Lebensgeschichte der Autoren, von Goethe bis Houllebecq, spannend und hellsichtig miteinander verknüpft.
A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect.
Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature's most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road.
101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents.
';The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade Financial Times';To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley' Times Literary Supplement ';Brilliant and enthralling Independent On SundayWonderfully vivid SpectatorThe definitive and richly woven biography of Mary Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein The creator of the world's most famous outsider became one herself .
This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of London in wartime and of the Irish 'big house', and penetrating accounts of some of her most famous contemporaries.
Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today.
'Assia was my true wife, and the best friend I ever had', wrote Ted Hughes, after his lover surrendered her life and that of their young daughter in 1969, six years after Sylvia Plath had suffered a similiar fate.
What began as an underground 60s Mod scene in unlicensed, no-frills clubs in the North West of England became a youth craze that has long surpassed all others.
The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day .
See through the eyes of the Brontes as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry.
**A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist** **A National Jewish Book Award Finalist for Debut Fiction** In this ';nuanced, sharp, and beautifully written' (Michael Chabon) debut novel, a young man prepares to serve in the Israeli army while also trying to reconcile his close relationship to two Palestinian siblings with his deeply ingrained loyalties to family and country.
Auster's radical modern ghost story from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian)Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook.
One of the most dramatic figures among Latin America's romantic writers and the distinguished woman writer of her century, Juana Manuela Gorriti brings passion and intrigue to the scene of writing.
Unauthorised (but authoritative) guide to the mysteries behind the phenomenal bestseller THE DA VINCI CODEReaders of Dan Brown's extraordinary bestseller THE DA VINCI CODE are fascinated by the questions raised in the novel.
The most important critical work for decades' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times In the brilliantly engaging style that characterised The Genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate has written a series of compelling pieces on the link between literature and the environment and why poetry matters in the new millennium.
