Títulos en Ensayos

Una recopilación de ensayos, escritos a lo largo de medio siglo, que aborda el racismo y el colorismo presentes en Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos. En esta veintena de textos que recorren cinco décadas Luis Rafael Sánchez aborda de frente «el repudio feroz a la ignominia que representan los...

En un relato personal, íntimo y profundo, a raíz de su propia experiencia con un padre alcohólico, Olivia Laing nos propone una nueva perspectiva para entender los procesos creativos de seis célebres escritores norteamericanos partiendo de sus biografías y su relación con el alcohol. ¿A...

The controversial father of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud charted the human unconscious, brought us the talking cure, and wrote books that now rank among the classics of world literature. In On the Couch, the great analyst is analyzed by some of today's great writers and thinkers, who help us understand the man who has helped us understand ourselves as much, if not more, than anyone else, ever. The result is a fresh, multifaceted reassessment of Freud's continuing relevance and influence on ideas, literature, culture, science, and more.

Begun in 1797, when William was at the height of his poetic powers, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals provide invaluable insight into the daily lives of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, William’s friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the incidents that inspired some of his greatest poems. Richly immersive and intimately domestic, the Journals transport the listener to life in the Lake District 200 years ago as Dorothy describes the Lake District countryside, her garden and neighbours, keeping house, going on walks, and the people she meets along the way

In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she undertakes the same journey, revisiting the same cities, edgelands, highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers – Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz – who chronicled their own road trips across the US. In Greyhound, Pocock explores the overlap of place and memory, the individual with the communal, and the privatisation of public space.

弱冠23歳で発表された平野文学の原点！ すべてはここから始まった。 15世紀末、ペストの猖獗によって荒廃した南仏の小村を舞台に、旅の途上の若き学僧の聖性体験を、漢語を多用した華麗で清新な文体で描き出し、文壇に衝撃を与えたデビュー作。

本を速く読みたい！──それは忙しい現代人の切実な願いである。 しかし、速読は本当に効果があるのか？ 10冊の本を闇雲に読むよりも、1冊を丹念に読んだほうが、人生にとってはるかに有益ではないのか？

脱いだ服を雪の中に隠すなどしばしば奇抜な行動で周囲を驚かせる古生物学者の夫や、独特なヘアスタイルをした関根という名前の大事な兎、自宅を半焼させた経験を持つどこか抜けたところのある祖母……。身の回りにいる愉快な人々の姿を、印象的なエピソードとともに軽妙なタッチで描く抱腹絶倒のエッセイ！

2006年12月号から2024年6月号まで「小説推理」に隔月連載された、養老孟司の読書エッセイ「ミステリー中毒」より精選。全104本の中から、「考える」「社会」「脳」「人生」「身体」「自然」「ミステリー・ファンタジー」「国際」「日本語・文化」の９つのテーマに分け、各テーマ３篇、計27篇を収録する。

From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit-play, The Steward of Christendom; from his first Costa Book of the Year novel The Secret Scripture to his second, Days Without End, a...

Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940), war vieles: Philosoph, Kulturkritiker, Übersetzer - aber auch ein Schriftsteller. Auf der Flucht vor den Nazis, die Frankreich besetzt hatten, nahm er sich an der spanischen Grenze das Leben. Seine Denkbilder stellen in der Tat ein neues, eigenes Genre dar: Dort angesiedelt, wo Philosophie und Literatur ineinander fließen, dachte und schrieb er in Bildern. Ein Problem oder Thema versuchte er in bildhaften Aphorismen zu erklären. Faszinierende Miniaturen begegnen wir hier, einzigartig erzählt!

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST * A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER “Quite simply one of the best books of the decade.” —Los Angeles Review of Books * “The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.” —Cosmopolitan * “Brilliant…a hopeful book…rooted in the steadfast belief...

From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives. Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to...

An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day. So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our...

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on...

Habitan este libro personajes con destinos ambliopes. Creadores que en un arrebato de lucidez demencia deciden renunciar, abandonarse a la contingencia para poner su vida, cuerpo y trabajo, en un espacio de indeterminación. Este libro recoge las pruebas de una irrefutable propensión al absurdo...

This is the remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society...

Una celebración de la vida a través de sabores y recuerdos Experiencias cotidianas que se trasforman en historias memorables; rutinas familiares que, con el tiempo, se convierten en recuerdos atesorados; viajes que marcan el curso de una vida. Benito Taibo explora la profunda conexión que...

Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.

Sous forme d'un dialogue vif et parfois provocateur, Le Neveu de Rameau de Denis Diderot met en scène Lui, le neveu du compositeur, et Moi : deux facettes de Diderot, le philosophe qui oeuvre pour les valeurs universelles et intemporelles, et le matérialiste qui pratique le cynisme et le...