Houellebecq sostuvo desde el comienzo una crítica al cinismo moral y estético de sus contemporáneos "a la hora de hablar de la humanidad" (a través de un realismo cínico acoplado, siempre, a la pregunta por la experiencia sensible: ¿qué hay de las interrogaciones filosóficas, se pregunta a falta de un mejor término Houellebecq, más allá de la vida pura y simplemente material?
Auster's tale of obsession from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian)The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender dissolve into one another.
Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet for more than half a century.
Auster's bestselling tale of family dynamics past and present from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian)'I was looking for a quiet place to die.
Este libro es resultado de un proyecto de investigación que se inscribe en un macroproyecto que tiene como propósito pensar América Latina desde la literatura así como aborda el problema de la llamada identidad latinoamericana a partir del estudio profundo de Terra nostra una de las obras más complejas y arriesgadas de Carlos Fuentes fruto sin duda de la experimentación estética y formal que asumió la literatura en el contexto de las décadas de 1960 y 1970.
*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.
Celebratory, witty and incredibly insightful, Harry Bingham explores the eccentricities and customs of the British nation in a bid to answer a question which has everyone debating - Who are we?
The quirky offspring of 'QI' and 'Freakonomics', 'Geekspeak' melds ingenious statistical analysis with edifying trivia to explain away some curious facts of life.
The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.
Sunday Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's first work of nonfiction, chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed author, Lucy Grealy.
A comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light.
Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent.
Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.
An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himselfMacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.
From China's first-ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature comes an exquisite book of fictions, none of which has ever been published before in English.
Durante los siglos XVIII y XIX surgió una idea particular de la literatura que coincidió con el nacimiento del género novelístico moderno, lo que marcó tanto la teoría literaria del siglo XX como la producción de textos literarios.
