Títulos en Arte y literatura

Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks posthumously discovered behind Highsmith’s linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta—traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who “[worked] like mad to be something”.

A mediados del siglo XIX, la Cataluña española experimentó una profunda transformación cuando fue empujada no en una, sino en dos épocas doradas: la Renaixença y la Revolución Industrial. Fue durante este período explosivo de creatividad, prosperidad floreciente y patriotismo vigorizado que nació un icono inconformista y fascinantemente excéntrico, uno que estaba a punto de asaltar Cataluña con su brillante ojo para el arte no ortodoxo y sus ideas legendarias -o como algunos dirían, notoriamente- descabelladas.

In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent’s greatest portraits. The three men's lives play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.

Antonia Fraser's memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growing love of history. The fascination began as a child when her evacuation at the beginning of the war to an Elizabethan manor house became an inspiration for historical imaginings - and developed into an enduring passion; as she writes, 'for me, the study of History has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life'.

Sir Rabindranath Tagore nació en Calcuta, India, el 7 de mayo de 1861. Fue un poeta bengalí, filósofo, artista, dramaturgo, músico, novelista y autor de canciones que fue premiado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1913, convirtiéndose en el primer hindú laureado con este reconocimiento. La poesía domina la reputación literaria de Tagore, pero también escribió novelas, ensayos, historias cortas, diarios de viaje y teatro. Se le atribuye la introducción de este género en la literatura bengalí. Murió en Santiniketan, India, el 7 de agosto de 1941.

Born in 1965, Harkness grew up near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and went on to study at University of California and Oxford University to name just two. She is a well-regarded historian of science and medicine as well as having studied alchemy, magic and the occult. Her All Souls trilogy of books earnt her a firm following, leaving fans excited for her latest release, Time's Convert. Deborah talks to us about her latest title, how she went from historian to author and the television adaptation of A Discovery of Witches.

A selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to and from eight of his favorite contemporary writers, Heather Cass White provides an...

Anita è stata una bambina solitaria, affidata alla televisione per lunghe giornate mentre i suoi giovanissimi genitori si costruivano la propria vita: batterista con un noto gruppo musicale lui, ricercatrice universitaria lei. Anita diventa adulta nei decenni in cui l'Italia diventa teledipendente, e dagli anni degli studi alle prime esperienze di lavoro le sue disavventure, i suoi amori, le sue scelte corrono parallele alla realtà che da sempre l'assorbe, quella del piccolo schermo.

Notable escritor, poeta y director de cine italiano de comienzos del siglo XX, su obra poética, igual que su obra ensayística y periodística, polemizó con el marxismo oficial y el catolicismo, a los que reprochaba no entender la cultura de sus propias bases proletarias y campesinas.

Escritos entre 1944 e 1962, situados entre o ensaio e a autobiografia, os onze relatos de As pequenas virtudes são um marco da escrita memorialística do século XX. Sem idealizações nem sentimentalismos, As pequenas virtudes é fruto de uma prosa límpida, aliada ao vigor típico dos escritores que, ao falar de coisas simples, revelam as questões humanas mais profundas. Nestes onze textos, a escritora italiana Natalia Ginzburg não faz delimitações entre as dimensões social e histórica, construindo uma obra singular e de raro afeto.

The inspiration for the FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER This “intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was” (Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling...

A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son’s love, a mother’s obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past. Indian-American author Manil Suri grew up in a large, crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai), which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three...

A fascinating, first of its kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King - all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives. After Caroline Bicks was named the University of...

Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gaining his PhD from Oxford University, he has published several books and articles. His most recent works comprise the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and, most recently Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.

In 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venice's famed painter of princes, gods, and goddesses. Coming face-to-face with Titian's drama-infused, richly colored works, the creator of David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling realized he had met a worthy opponent. Twenty-five years later, Titian came to Rome to paint the pope, and the two met again. Painting in the Vatican, Titian experienced the full power of Michelangelo's work and vowed to surpass the achievements of his older contemporary.

In 1911, Hermann Hesse sailed through southeastern Asian waters on a trip that would define much of his later writing. Hesse brings his unique eye to scenes such as adventures in a rickshaw, watching foreign theater performances, exploring strange floating cities on stilts, and luxuriating in...

Se ha escrito mucho sobre Mark Twain. Sin embargo, poco se ha hecho para escuchar sus propias palabras, pensamientos y sentimientos acerca de su vida, desafíos y éxitos. La serie En Sus Propias Palabras tiene precisamente ese propósito, comenzando con él como el mayor ingenio de su época y...

Ce petit recueil réunit, pour la première fois, les portraits hauts en couleur de Frida Kahlo par Patrizia Cavalli et de Diego Rivera par Frida Kahlo. Un nouveau regard sur leur destin, qui replace au cœur de leur histoire leur commune passion pour la peinture, qui les liait intimement : leur histoire d'amour tragique, vouée à un échec prévisible et lucidement prévu, se reflète dans une petite sélection de lettres que Frida a adressées à Diego, jusqu'à la fin de sa vie.

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were...

Las sílabas imitan la repetición del oleaje y su misterio, anuncian un paisaje entrañable en el horizonte, nos sitúan al pie en blanco de la vida diaria —esos que la imaginación y la casualidad llenan con sorpresa e invenciones—. El aniversario personal, la novedad literaria, las presencias que van y vienen al compás de la querencia y la memoria, la relectura de los clásicos, el paseo por una ciudad soñada, un elogio del microhistoriador, la música de The Beatles.