Títulos en Ensayos

Dans son Journal d'une apprentie chamane, Corine Sombrun racontait l'incroyable aventure qui l'avait conduite, sur les traces d'un chamane péruvien, au fin fond de la forêt amazonienne. Elle a poursuivi sa quête spirituelle en Mongolie auprès des chamanes Tsaatanes, qui vont lui révéler qu'elle est elle-même chamane et doit suivre leur enseignement. Commence alors pour elle une initiation qui comporte outre l'apprentissage des différents rituels, la vie commune sous le tipi, la garde des rennes, le dressage des chevaux, la transhumance et la maîtrise du froid.

Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, "How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?" For more than five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post. Collected here are interviews with 47 accomplished authors, including Michael Connelly, Ken Follett, Meg Gardiner, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and Don Winslow.

Honduras no es Irak, pero en algún momento, Alberto Arce - único corresponsal extranjero en Tegucigalpa de 2012 a 2014 - lo vivió así. Honduras no es Irak, pero cada año mueren asesinadas 85 personas por cada 100.000 habitantes, una cifra que supera a la de Irak. Honduras vive una de las guerras no declaradas menos contadas del mundo. Una guerra laberíntica de todos contra todos.

King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world’s press revealed the king was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson. A life spent in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire. Drawing on personal accounts from the royal archives, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict.

A son's homage to his father. John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the dark forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep grief.

How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to matter equally, On Us offers a few more on choice in a concentrated media world and asks why more information often means less insight.

２０１８年５月、６３才という早すぎる人生の幕をおろした西城秀樹。

Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. The book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R. R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added writing exercises, creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice.

A new, expanded collection of both new and previously published essays and articles from one of the mainstays of the Washington, DC underground rock-and-roll scene, The Psychic Soviet is the most complete collection of writings by Ian Svenonius. The selections are written in a scholarly yet engaging style, filled with parody and biting humor that subvert capitalist culture, and cover such topics as the ascent of the DJ as a star, the “cosmic depression” that followed the defeat of the USSR, and the status of rock and roll as a religion.

糸井重里が、ほぼ日刊イトイ新聞に書いた１年分の原稿から、 心に残る「小さいことば」を抜き出し、本にまとめる人気シリーズの第１弾。 抜き出されたことばの数は全部で168。 詩と、ユーモアと、たくさんのヒントが詰まった 「ベスト・オブ・糸井重里」ともいえる１冊です。

少年少女の身体が入れ替わる……と言えば山中恒（やまなか・ひさし）の小説で大林宣彦（おおばやし・のぶひこ）監督により映画化もされた『転校生』が思い出されるが、この場合は東京のド真ん中と、地方の奥深い山村とに遠く離れた、お互い誰なのかも認識していない２人が主人公。入れ替わる前に携帯電話でメッセージを残して痕跡を伝え合う。 だがやがて、２人は場所だけでなく、生きていた時間すらもズレていた事がわかる。少女の居る村が迎えたお祭りの夜は、この地が彗星の落下で壊滅する夜でもあった。死に向かって続く彼女の時間。 それを認識した時、少年はもう少女と入れ替わる事はなくなる。少女は死んでしまったのか？　ふたたび時空を越えて、彼女を救いだす事は出来ないのか？(本文より） 切通理作の「映画の友よ」はこちらから→https://yakan-hiko.com/risaku.html

「いつ死んでもいい」なんて噓。生きているかぎり、人間は未完成。大英博物館やメトロポリタン美術館に作品が収蔵され、一〇〇歳を超えた今なお第一線で活躍を続ける現代美術家・篠田桃紅。「百歳はこの世の治外法権」「どうしたら死は怖くなくなるのか」など、人生を独特の視点で解く。生きるのが楽になるヒントが詰まったエッセイ。

スポーツの世界では「努力すれば必ず報いられる」などという美談が溢れている。

しかし著者の八十余年の体験によれば、いくら努力してもダメなことは実に多いという。

つまり努力でなしうることには限度があり、人間はその分際（身の程）を心得ない限り、 決して幸せには暮らせないのだ。

「すべてのものには分際がある」「老いと死がなければ、人間は謙虚になれない」

「誰でも人生の終盤は負け戦」「他人を傷つけずに生きることはできない」 「『流される』ことも一つの美学」「老年ほど勇気を必要とする時はない」等々、 作家として六十年以上、世の中をみてきた著者の知恵を凝縮した一冊。

16歳の今しか、伝えられない言葉がある。当時小学5年生だった東日本大震災から5年。あの日を学びに変えるために立ち上がった三人の16歳の高校生の語り部。ポプラ社が発売する本書の一部朗読とご本人たちのインタビューを公開。監修を務めた”小さな命の意味を考える会”代表佐藤敏郎さんのインタビューも含め宮城県東松島市で収録。

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まったくウルサイおやじである。 素晴らしいマグロがないとお話にならないとか（私はマグロはあったら食うけどなくてもいい）、飯に昆布や砂糖をいれたのはだめだとか（入れてました）。 店の経営方法やら、大正の人格やら、客の格やら、下世話で遠慮がない。 そこがおもしろいのが悔しい。 偉そうに！･･･と思いながら耳をそらせない。 寿司の人気の理由は「肴と飯が安直にいっしょに食べられるところが時代の人気に投じたものだろう。」などと日本料理の横綱かたなしだ。

Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination with this New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive. You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate...

Rescue offers riveting stories about what happens when things go terribly wrong in some of the world's most perilous places: Himalayan peaks, African plains, vast oceans, remote Arctic wilderness. The result is a collection of first-rate prose read by masterful narrators that makes for compulsive listening.

In questa straordinaria opera, pubblicata nel 1902, Tolstoj ci mostra uno spaccato trasversale delle "cattive" abitudini...

From celebrated New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Rick Bragg comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the South. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, Bragg explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast.

Jennifer Worick had a bad day. And then a bad week. She channeled her aggravation into creating the blog “Things I Want to Punch in the Face”, which became a sensation. Although her bad week passed, she has continued to take note of the little irritations that torment us all daily, from old guys with ponytails to 20-minute coffee prep, bizspeak to vanity plates, celebrity baby names to emoticons. Now, just in time for the holiday season, the book showcases more than 100 of Worick’s most punch-worthy aggravations, rated on a scale of 1 to 5 fists.