Éste es probablemente el libro más famoso de Stefan Zweig. En el lleva a su cima el arte de la miniatura histórica y literaria.
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Lolita is the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love, love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
The whole collection is a knock out. Few writers can match Raymond Carver's entwining style and language.
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world.
Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel with intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures. A poignant meditation on love and loneliness.
A novel about frienship and betrayal, sexual desire and estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the every day.
The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
A frightening parody on a man's return to that state of darkness from whixh it took him thousands of years to emerge. Fully to succeed, a fantasy must approach very close to reality.
Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys.
Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom.
The twenty-four stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami's mastery of the form.
En libro mágico de Pombo encontrarán 14 reconocidas fábulas del poeta Rafael Pombo, con bellas y coloridas ilustraciones.
Al igual que en su influyente libro sobre postpunk, en Como un golpe de rayo Simon Reynolds hace algo más que recorrer de manera exhaustiva la historia de un género.
Libro-objeto de aprendizaje y diversión en el que los niños crean puentes entre el arte, la ciudadanía y su cotidiano.
Los textos aquí reunidos dan buena prueba de la sagacidad, la erudición y la elegancia a las que Zweig y su amor por los libros.
Aborda de manera exhaustiva, seria y rigurosa el panorama musical y de ocio nocturno valenciano del periodo que se extiende desde principios de los ochenta.
Versión ilustrada y tapa dura, conmemorando los 20 años de lanzamiento de la quinta entrega de la saga.
Un libro que a partir de diferentes autores recupera el silencio, conceptualiandolo con la vida interior y la contemplación.
Retrato de la agitada y cambiante realidad de una ciudad en la que explora, no solo su desarrollo tecnológico y urbanístico, sino su dimensión artística y moral a través de la cotidianidad.
Versión ilustrada y tapa dura, conmemorando los 20 años de lanzamiento de la tercera entrega de la saga.
Un libro para entender la importancia de la virtud de la atención, recorriendo la búsqueda por uno mismo y su interior.
Una epidemia de peste en la ciudad de Orán representa una era de tormentos y muerte en el mundo.