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Es un libro que acercará al lector a su propio poder de sanación, de volver al amor hacia sí mismo, por medio de un trabajo de consciencia interior, pero también del viaje que plantea la autora de autodescubrimiento, en un camino de magia pura a través de una serie de rituales, donde el don más importante de cada quien será la capacidad de trabajar en su ser. Así que a través del relato de su historia personal, Erika llevará al lector por...
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Enfermé dans un mariage malheureux avec une épouse alcoolique et manipulatrice, le personnage central de cette histoire est injustement accusé de faits qu'il défend avec vigueur devant la justice. Face à cette épreuve dévastatrice, il doit faire un choix déchirant : succomber au désespoir ou se lancer dans une lutte acharnée. Dans ce témoignage, il relate son combat quotidien pour la vérité et l'équité.
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Get the Summary of Claire Dederer's Monsters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Claire Dederer grapples with the moral dilemma of appreciating art created by morally reprehensible individuals. She reflects on the personal impact of the Access Hollywood tape and the #MeToo movement, which prompted her to reconsider her admiration for Woody Allen's work in light of the allegations against him. Dederer revisits "Annie...
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Una verdadera joya en la que Henry Miller viaja de la literatura a la vida y viceversa. El mapa mental de uno de los genios más sobresalientes del siglo XX. Indispensable.
De la literatura a la vida y de la vida a la literatura, estas cartas a Michael Fraenkel, escritas entre 1935 y 1938, constituyen uno de los destellos de inteligencia más deslumbrantes del autor de Sexus.
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'This is a pacey and colourful read … elegantly written.' – Daisy Dunn, The Times
'The whole book reads rather like a Powell novel, with unexpected meetings and reversals … it is a constant pleasure.' – Mark Amory, The Spectator
'At a rollicking pace, it follows the post-Oxford careers of all the main Hypocrites … Waugh addicts will wish to add it to their shelves.' – A.N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
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Per the New World Encyclopedia, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Modern Gaelic: MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh),(died August 15, 1057), was King of Scots (also known as the King of Alba) from 1040 until his death. He is best known as the subject of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth and the many works it has inspired, although the play is historically inaccurate. Shakespeare' Macbeth immortalized the Scottish king but as a dark, tormented character driven...
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Todas las cosas y ninguna es un recorrido por la huella que Fernando Molano Vargas dejó en la sensibilidad de lectoras y lectores de, a esta altura, varias generaciones. Como todo recorrido, es más el mapa de una geografía, la de Bogotá especialmente, que una biografía. Pero no deja de ser una historia. Hay, aquí y allá, apuntes biográficos de Molano Vargas y de sus amistades, y también está contada la suerte que siguieron sus escritos.
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Un ensayo reivindicativo sobre la experiencia singular de pasear siendo mujer.
El flâneur nació en el París del siglo XIX. Su hábitat natural eran los bulevares y las galerías de la ciudad. "La multitud es su dominio, como el aire es el del pájaro, como el agua el del pez", escribió Charles Baudelaire. El flâneur es un hombre ocioso que pasea y observa a la vez, pero desde la distancia: no se involucra. Sin embargo, para Baudelaire la flâneuse...
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Lord Byron is the greatest writer you've never read.The biographer of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis tells the story of Britain's most glamorous and most tortured writer.He was rich and handsome. He was a swimmer and a poet. He loved both sexes. In his work he made a queer love life both thrilling and universal.He was born with a deformed right foot. An emotional hurt dating back to abuse when he was a boy also affected the man he became. But his hand...
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"A cien años de su nacimiento, Juan José Arreola, ese escritor excéntrico con capa y cabellos alborotados que aparecía en televisión y hacía gala de un inusual talento, sigue considerándose una de las grandes plumas que ha tenido nuestro país.
Mucho se ha dicho de él y, sin embargo, aún no lo sabemos todo. Y este libro es la prueba de ello. Aquí se reúnen siete escritores para decirnos algo más sobre Arreola y su mundo -las letras, la...
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Mary and Mr. Eliot is a twin portrait of T. S. Eliot and its author, the formidable Mary Trevelyan.
In 1938 T. S. Eliot, already "a Classic in his lifetime," struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan. This passionately curious woman, an intrepid traveler who, like Eliot, was deeply involved in the affairs of the Church of England, served as the warden of the Student Movement House, mere yards from the poet and editor's office at Faber and Faber.
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As the novel opens, aristocratic Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel pleads with the High Court of Naples to be beheaded instead of hanged like a criminal. One of the leading revolutionaries of her time, Eleonora contributed to the establishment of the Neapolitan Republic, based on the ideals of the French Revolution. Imprisoned in 1799 after the return of the Bourbon Monarchy - due to her work as editor-in-chief of Il Monitore Napoletano - and while waiting...
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It's 1987. Madonna is top of the charts. 'The Lost Boys' opens in cinemas. Fingerless gloves are in. It's also the year that I ran away from home and was sent to live with my expat father and Chinese stepmother in Hong Kong. It's the year everything changed, including me. In the spirit of 'Riding in Cars with Boys', Deborah Rogers gives this remarkable account of a girl on the cusp of womanhood and a father losing himself in a downward spiral of alcoholism....
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Albert Camus, the celebrated French-Algerian writer and philosopher, is often remembered for his existentialist views and thought-provoking literary works. However, behind the enigmatic facade lies a man whose life was marked by tumultuous experiences that shaped his worldview and artistic expression. Born in Mondovi, Algeria in 1913, Camus grew up in poverty after losing his father in World War I. His humble beginnings instilled in him a deep sense...
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One of the most acclaimed young voices of his generation, Blake Butler now offers his first work of nonfiction: a deeply candid and wildly original look at the phenomenon of insomnia.
Invoking scientific data, historical anecdote, Internet obsession, and figures as diverse as Andy Warhol, Gilles Deleuze, John Cage, Anton LaVey, Jorge Luis Borges, Brian Eno, and Stephen King, Butler traces the tension between sleeping and conscious life. And he reaches...
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All three of Anne Truitt's artist's journals in one e-volume, the illuminating, inspiring record of a woman's reconciliation of the call of creative work with the demands of daily life-with a new introduction by Audrey Niffenegger.
Anne Truitt kept a journal throughout her adult life, from her early years as one of the rare, celebrated women artists in the early 60s, through her midlife as an established artist, and into older age when she was, for...
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When I Started Smoking Weed for Real is volume 5 of the series On Being, a self-referential, metaphysical case history where the author J. Guzmán, as the protagonist Ana, psychoanalyzes her own consciousness throughout Time, uses tools like astrology to facilitate the investigation, and documents the entire process. On Being is a life-long, narrative, archival data set of her life in the form of diaries, whose purpose is to assist astrologers and...
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Sobre hielo es la primera novela del ciclo autobiográfico Das alte Jahrhundert, cuyo punto de partida es la ruptura de Kurzeck con Sibylle, la madre de su hijo, y su posterior mudanza a un almacén de paredes tremolantes que comparte con un piano. Se trata de un monólogo poético sobre la ciudad y el tiempo, repleto de encuentros y anécdotas, escrito en una prosa personalísima de frases cortas o directamente amputadas, en continuo staccato.
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Josie Fanon was at her husband Frantz Fanon's side from 1949 until his death in 1961. She is the onl person who knew him unreservedly. Josie Fanon committed suicide on January 10, 1989 in El Biar, Algiers. She is buried in El Kettar Cemetery in Algers. Born Marie-Joseph Dublé in Lyon, France, she was 58 years old.
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Nadine Gordimer's Fiction is a major study of the life and writings of Nadine Gordimer, a towering figure in the literary and cultural life of South Africa in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recognised for her fiction through several prizes, most notably the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. It has the makings of a guide, taking the reader through the complexities in Gordimer's life, literature, and society, backed by academic research (doctoral...
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