Este libro podría haber tenido otros títulos, pero acaso este, A propósito de Ferlosio, más genérico, sea el más fiel a un ensayo urdido en torno a una intimidad moral.
Este libro defiende el uso del tedio como artificio literario y esboza una estética del aburrimiento a partir de las divagaciones de Leopold Bloom, de la banalidad de la señora Dalloway o de la incertidumbre de "Molloy", así como de la espera en "El desierto de los tártaros", mientras avanzamos viscosamente en "La ciénaga definitiva" o nos enredamos en el discurso de los personajes de Thomas Bernhard, entre otros.
"La verdad ignorada: homoerotismo masculino y literatura en España (1890-1936)" aborda el tema del deseo entre hombres, a través del análisis filológico de los textos de varios autores, de los diversos modos expresivos asumidos por ellos para "desvelar" la pulsión homoerótica masculina: Jacinto Benavente, pionero en la asimilación del credo "decadente" para explorar la querencia erótica entre iguales; la versión más frívola del homoerotismo representada en las novelas de Hoyos y Vinent, Retana y Hernández Catá; dos pilares fundamentales de esta literatura, Federico García Lorca y Luis Cernuda, y dos formas muy distintas de desnudarse ante el espejo de la palabra; la muy explícita poesía de quien fuera amigo personal de Lorca: Eduardo Blanco-Amor.
A special student edition of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, with an introduction and study notesWinston Smith lives in a world that controls every action and thought of its citizens through the all-seeing eye of Big Brother.
Cuando en el siglo pasado las revoluciones armadas se creyeron posibles, también se creyó posible la alianza entre marxistas y cristianos para cambiar la sociedad, de por medio el Concilio Vaticano II y el Congreso Eucarístico de Medellín, que proclamó la opción preferencial por los pobres.
Hans-Hermann Kestel entwirft ein »überaus komplexes Themen- und Motivgeflecht«, das sowohl dem Kenner des Werkes von Erich Loest neue Einblicke ermöglicht, aber genauso jemandem, der schlichtweg »nur« daran interessiert ist, mehr über den Autor und seine Texte zu erfahren.
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets.
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.
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend.
Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon's first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon at Eddie Marsh's breakfasts before the war, through famous moments like Sassoon's encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas's widow and Ivor Gurney in 1932; and the last, strange lunch and 'longish talk' of Sassoon and David Jones in 1964, half a century after the great war began.
'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy' SpectatorHere are nineteen glittery new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents.
A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer.
Collins Classics brings you a haunting selection of the finest horror stories from classic literature - featuring works by Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mary Shelley - with additional content.
*A New Statesman Best Summer Read*'A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy.
Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book PrizeA Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction BookThe captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement.
HarperCollins is proud to bring you a selection of the best-loved stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring one of literature's favourite detectives, Sherlock Holmes, from our range of timeless literary classics.
