Resultados para "man" en Arte y literatura

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer and his craft.

Jon Reiner was happily married with two children, living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, when a near-fatal medical crisis that resulted in emergency surgery threatened to take his life. He was sentenced to months of intravenous feeding that required him to abstain from eating anything, in order to give his digestive tract a rest.

Siamo a Ostia, nel 2013, e tra gli abitanti di quei palazzi c'è anche Federica Angeli, cronista di nera per le pagine romane di La Repubblica, che in quella periferia è nata e cresciuta. Da tempo si occupa dei clan locali e ha subìto gravi minacce. Sa quindi come è fatta la paura, ma crede che l'altra faccia della paura sia il coraggio. Se i vicini rientrano obbedienti al comando del boss, lei decide di denunciare ciò che ha visto. Dal giorno dopo la sua vita è stravolta.

Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A roller-coaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.

This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills.

Modern Man is a penetrating psychological portrait of a true genius and constant self-inventor, as well as a sweeping tale filled with exotic locales, sex and celebrity (he was a lover of Josephine Baker), and high-stakes projects. In Flint's telling, Corbusier isn't just the grandfather of modern architecture but a man who sought to remake the world according to his vision, dispelling the Victorian style and replacing it with something never seen before.

This is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and, at the same time, leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time—together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing.

Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant 1960s.

Written and narrated by his longtime friend and collaborator, Sripad Jagannatha Das (Geoffrey Giuliano), this biography provides an in-depth look at Max's journey from a young artist in Nazi Germany to becoming a prominent figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s and beyond. Das's firsthand knowledge and personal anecdotes make this audiobook a must-listen for fans of Peter Max and anyone interested in the art world of the 20th century.

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional de gran tirada, es el niño bonito de los...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional de gran tirada, es el niño bonito de los...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional de gran tirada, es el niño bonito de los...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional de gran tirada, es el niño bonito de los...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional de gran tirada, es el niño bonito de los...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional de gran tirada, es el niño bonito de los...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional de gran tirada, es el niño bonito de los...

In 1948 most White people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous White journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a Black man in the Jim Crow South. Escorted through the South's parallel Black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic Black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers, local Black leaders, and families of lynching victims.

Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, this suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007.

Combining biography, history, and politics, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional one. This includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment. Exploiting a wealth of archival material and interviews with key protagonists, Our Man Down in Havana delves into the story behind and beyond the author's prophetic Cuban tale, focusing on one slice of Greene's manic life: a single novel and its complex history.