Resultados para "Julien" en Arte y literatura

Julio Cortázar es considerado uno de los escritores más originales en lengua castellana. Cortázar no sólo participó en el llamado ?Boom latinoamericano? sino que inauguró un campo dentro de la literatura fantástica, con discursos novedosos y formas poco exploradas en las letras...

Ian Gibson nos ofrece en este audiolibro un acercamiento a los últimos años del poeta español, y más joven representante de la generación del 98, Antonio Machado. Una fiel reconstrucción de la tragedia que acarreó la Guerra Civil, la realidad del exilio al que él y su familia se vieron...

A lo largo de sus páginas descubriremos a su familia, de la cual heredó el amor hacia el arte; su ciudad, Córdoba, cuya influencia marcó el gusto y la forma de ver el mundo del artista; su traslado a Madrid, que acrecentó la universalidad de su obra; su visión de la mujer, que se convierte en protagonista indiscutible de sus lienzos, y el papel secundario al que queda relegada su esposa; la muerte, que envuelve sus últimas obras y su funeral; y, por último, volviendo a fusionar todos estos enfoques en un brillante rayo de luz, su legado, con un recorrido por sus óleos y por su museo, contempla

Escritor e intelectual argentino, maestro del relato corto, la prosa poética y la narración breve en general, fue creador de una saga importante de novelas que inauguraron una nueva forma de hacer literatura en Latinoamérica que rompió los moldes clásicos mediante narraciones impresionantes donde los personajes adquirían una autonomía y una profundidad psicológica pocas veces vista hasta entonces.

Joining us at a riverside London hotel is Dame Julie Andrews, DBE, an English actress, singer and author. She has now released her second memoir, Home Work. Born in Surrey in 1935, Andrews parents divorced and she originally lived with her father, then moved back to live with her mother and stepfather. Her stepfather was turbulent, but he sponsored her voice lessons, and from 1945 Andrews began performing with her mother and stepfather unbilled.

Appréhender l’œuvre et la pensée de Machiavel n’est pas un exercice facile, tant l’ombre du machia-vélisme plane au-dessus d’elles. De ces fables, l’auteur nous invite à nous départir afin d’accéder à la pensée politique de l’humaniste et chancelier de Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli et aux conditions de sa formation. Ainsi nous découvrons l’homme Machiavel, soucieux de se mettre au service de la Sei-gneurie de Florence et se lamentant des divers revers de fortune.

Julio Ramón Ribeyro es novelista, dramaturgo y referencia obligada del cuento latinoamericano. Es uno de los grandes representantes de la literatura peruana. Aunque su narrativa es ampliamente valorada, para muchos lectores su pieza maestra son sus diarios, páginas en las que registró y...

Robin Morgan talks to Julie Corbin about her fifth novel, What Goes Around, about learning to write and taking revenge.

Nació el 26 de abril de 1798 en Charenton-Saint Maurice. En 1805 falleció su padre y un año después se traslada junto a su madre a París, donde estudia en el Liceo Louis-le-Grand, por entonces el Liceo Imperial. Su carrera artística se inicia en 1822 cuando su primer cuadro, Dante y...

Autor de al menos dos de las obras fundamentales de la literatura mexicana (El águila y la serpiente y La sombra del caudillo), Martín Luis Guzmán es uno de esos personajes en los que se conjuga la maestría prosística y la inquietud insaciable. En esta obra se presenta un apasionante e...

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, Phillips illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.

Rubén Darío es uno de los poetas más leídos y reconocidos de las letras hispánicas. Esta obra hace un recorrido por la historia del creador y político. Su gran trabajo poético y su empeño por divulgar la poesía de América, lo colocan en la historia de la Literatura como el fundador de...

Emily Dickinson may be the most widely read and beloved of all American poets, but the story behind her work's initial, posthumous publication in 1890 and the mother-and-daughter team most responsible for her enduring legacy are barely known. After Emily recounts the extraordinary lives of Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, and the powerful literary legacy they shared.

Van Gogh is a vivid portrait of the great Impressionist painter that traces his life from the Netherlands, where he was born into a family of art dealers, through his years in England, the Hague, and Paris, to his final home in Arles, where he discovered the luminous style of his late paintings before his suicide at the age of thirty-seven.

Mario Vargas Llosa dirige a todos aquellos que tienen la ilusión de llegar a ser escritores unas magníficas reflexiones en forma epistolar acerca del arte de narrar. Cómo comenzar a cristalizar esa vocación en obras literarias, por dónde empezar esa aventura, de dónde salen las historias que cuentan las novelas... son algunas de las preguntas a las que el Premio Nobel de Literatura da respuesta en este libro, que se convierte así en una lección magistral del oficio de escribidor.

The Unquiet Englishman braids the narratives of Greene's extraordinary life. It portrays a man who was traumatized as an adolescent and later suffered a mental illness that brought him to the point of suicide on several occasions; it tells the story of a restless traveler and unfailing advocate for human rights exploring troubled places around the world, a man who struggled to believe in God and found himself described as a great Catholic writer; it reveals a private life in which love almost always ended in ruin, alongside a larger story of politicians, battlefields, and spies.

In The Inconvenient Journalist, Dusko Doder, writing with his spouse and journalistic partner Louise Branson, describes how one February night crystalized the values and personal risks that shaped his life. The frigid Moscow night in question was in 1984, and Washington Post correspondent Doder reported signs that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov had died.

The night before her father dies, 18-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. But this isn't the book she imagined. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals - increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death.

Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next.

In Simply Joyce, author Margot Norris strips the mystery from Joyce's groundbreaking books by offering a clear introduction to why and how they were produced. Along the way, she offers insights into Joyce's life and creative inspirations by exploring his stories and novels in depth. Beginning with the more accessible early works and proceeding through Ulysses and the even more challenging Finnegans Wake, Norris provides a clear and easily understandable overview of this seminal writer.