Títulos en Ensayos

All'età di 51 anni, Leo Tolstoj si ferma a riflettere sulla sua vita apparentemente piena di successi e vede solo fallimento. La vita è ormai impossibile. In questo saggio, il gigante della letteratura, che ha già scritto sia "Guerra e pace" che "Anna Karenina", scrive in maniera profonda e aperta del suo deprimente alienamento dal mondo e della sua forte sensazione di perdita totale di significato. "La confessione" è un testo commovente e melancolico in cui Tolstoj cerca di affrontare le più grandi questioni.

"O cotidiano nem sempre é tomado apenas por questões profundas. E nem só delas vive o homem, mas também de banalidades. Muitas vezes, ele é tomado por questões ‘menores’, e é a elas que nos dedicaremos aqui. O cotidiano tenderá a ser mais pobre no futuro. Mais entediante e previsível. Refletiremos sobre pequenas questões neste livro.”

A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enriquecido vidas, y también las han destruido.

Ogni libro parla di altri libri. Ma ogni libro è, anche, una finestra sul mondo. Il libro può far rivivere il passato, o presagire il futuro. Ci porta in paesi lontani, ci fa parlare con chi non c'è più e scoprire universi ignoti. E gli scrittori? Quanto sappiamo della loro vita, a volte persino più avventurosa dei loro romanzi? Da questi ventisei capitoli - tanti quante, dall'A alla Z, le lettere dell'alfabeto - come da altrettante finestre attraverso una fitta rete di richiami culturali Hans Tuzzi scopre, di volta in volta, inediti punti di vista su noi stessi e sul nostro passato.

In quale tempo e in quale spazio ha luogo il singolare, fragile evento della lettura? Da queste domande prende avvio il breve e nitido saggio che Ezio Raimondi, uno dei massimi studiosi della letteratura oggi in Italia, ha dedicato al leggere. È un atto apparentemente semplice, un gesto quotidiano, eppure leggere è un rapporto complesso fra due persone, l'autore e il lettore, che ha luogo attraverso un testo. Chi legge fa vivere un testo, lo realizza, mettendosi così in comunicazione con l'altro, con una diversità.

Je m’adresse aux essoufflés. À ceux qui ont tout essayé. Aux éreintés qui poursuivent le bonheur sans l’atteindre. Ceci n’est pas une recette, mais un portrait des temps qui courent et qui font du bien quand ils s’arrêtent. Un appel à une autre manière de vivre.

In this essay collection, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in South Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing golf to reading about it.

Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning. Because she couldn’t get a driver’s license or file taxes, Cinelle worked as a cleaning lady and a nanny and took other odd jobs - and learned to look over her shoulder, hoping she wouldn’t get caught.

A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation Alliance since 2011. He brings an unerring belief in the connective and healing power of nature to The River Always Wins.

This recording features the highlights of this historic 1995 event sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and includes a talk by the late cosmologist Carl Sagan. Visions for the 21st Century was a powerful forum for religious leaders, diplomats, nongovernmental organizations, and educators to present their visions for the next century.

In seinem Essay über das Essen berichtet Walter Benjamin über den Genuss frischer Feigen, Café Creme, Falerner und Stockfisch, Borscht, Pranzo caprese und Maulbeer-Omelette.

“You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to read it again.” —theSkimm “Fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild A hilarious and candid essay collection from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner that explores everything...

A new collection of critical and personal essays on the writing life, from National Book Award winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. Why do we write? With this question, Joyce Carol Oates, in this new collection of seminal essays and criticism, begins an...

Paradoxe entre l’abondance pour le consommateur et ses choix de plus en plus restreints ; mépris  de la propriété intellectuelle, donc incapacité  d’assurer un revenu décent aux créateurs ; modèle  d’affaires ne servant que les monopoles (70 % à  85 % des revenus publicitaires engrangés par  Google, YouTube, Facebook, Netflix… ) ; "indifférence" politico­juridique, car les gouvernements  ne semblent pas vouloir remédier à cette situation.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy, read by Juliet Stevenson. Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as...

Here is a great gift of wisdom and humour for anyone coping with actual aches and pains. Based on the author's own experience as a hip-replacement patient, she provides funny insider advice about coping with the ordeals of surgery, a hospital stay, and at-home convalescence.

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy,and healthy place she is today.

Fifteen powerful women and writers you know and love—from the pages of The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, Glamour, and The Atlantic—offer captivating, intimate, and candid explorations about what it’s really like turning forty—and that the best is yet to come. The big 4-0. Like...

A sudden transition from the mirthfulness of college life to the workplace often appears daunting and hard to acclimatise to. Time spent with friends, college festivities, overlooking the trials of life, and dreams of achieving big things abruptly transform into long office hours, stringent...

The Light in the Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson and her beautiful, twenty-six-year-old daughter, Clara, are touring the Tuscan countryside. While sightseeing, Clara meets a good-looking young Italian man, Fabrizio, and quickly embarks on a whirlwind romance with him, despite her mother's stern disapproval.