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El poeta concibe la misión, en un domingo de septiembre tormentoso, glorioso, de escribir, durante la jornada, este poemario.

Edición de Luis Gómez Canseco.Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventurasdel doctor don Diego de Torres Villarroel fue publicada por primera vez en 1743. Esta autobiografía novelada y novelesca se convirtio en un exito inmediato.La historia comienza con un protagonista que parece ir para picaro, pero que termina prefiriendo la vida acomodada de un rentista. De una pagina a otra lo vemos ejercer de estudiante, de truhan, ermitaño, bailarin, medico, torero, soldado, bordador, adivino, profesor, astrologo, hombre de Iglesia, polemista, peregrino, exiliado, delincuente, rastreador de duendes, charlatan, paseante refinado por la corte, actor, sabio o loco.A pesar de la buena fortuna de la Vida entre los editores modernos, la edicion de Luis Gomez Canseco para la BCRAE puede considerarse la primera plenamente atenta a todos los pormenores del texto, y nos devuelve una imagen del autor muy distinta a la del escritor negligente que el mismo quiso atribuirse. La anotacion y el estudio completan una rigurosa aproximacion a esta obra capital del pleno Setecientos.

El nuevo libro de Stephen Greenblatt, autor de El giro, arroja luz a la enigmática figura de Christopher Marlowe, el genio del Renacimiento inglés que rivalizó con el mismo Shakespeare.Pobre, espía, transgresor, genio. Stephen Greenblatt, el autor de El giro, revela la vida fascinante y subversiva de Christopher Marlowe, inspiracion y rival de Shakespeare.En una Inglaterra isabelina asfixiada por la represion, la censura y el miedo, el hijo de un zapatero de Canterbury logro escapar de su destino a traves de las palabras. Dotado de un oido prodigioso para la poesia en latin que le abriria las puertas hacia la imaginacion visionaria, la belleza, el deseo transgresor y un escepticismo peligroso, Marlowe encabezo una explosion espectacular en la literatura, la lengua y la cultura inglesas que allanaria el camino al exito de muchos otros, incluido su joven colaborador William Shakespeare.Con una prosa agil y deslumbrante, Stephen Greenblatt, autor ganador del Pulitzer y referente absoluto en estudios literarios, reconstruye la turbulenta vida de Marlowe y la trascendencia de su obra, desde sus traducciones eroticas de Ovidio, hasta Tamerlan el Grande y Doctor Fausto. Al mismo tiempo, explora como las personas que rodearon a Marlowe, y las transformaciones que impulsaron, dieron origen al poder economico, cientifico y cultural del mundo moderno.

¿Cómo escribe su propia vida una de las mayores narradoras de nuestro tiempo? Las esperadas memorias de una de nuestras figuras culturales más elogiadas e influyentes.Criada por padres de mentalidad cientifica y espiritu independiente, Margaret Atwood paso gran parte de su infancia en los bosques remotos del norte de Quebec, lejos de las convenciones sociales. Aquella niñez nomada y sin ataduras marco el inicio de un camino fuera de lo comun, que ella misma narra con lucidez, ironia e ingenio, entrelazando los momentos decisivos de su vida con las obras que han transformado la narrativa contemporanea, como Ojo de gato y El cuento de la criada.Desfilan poetas, actores, osos, figuras bohemias y personajes casi sobrenaturales, que parecen salidos de sus ficciones. Con su mordacidad caracteristica y aguda lucidez, Atwood revela los delicados lazos entre experiencia y creacion, y entre realidad y palabra escrita. Y abre tambien una ventana intima a su relacion con el carismatico escritor Graeme Gibson y a los paisajes emocionales que nutrieron su escritura.Luminosa, reveladora y profundamente humana, Libro de mis vidas no es solo la cronica de una trayectoria unica, sino tambien una aguda reflexion sobre lo que significa escribir, recordar y transformar la experiencia en literatura. Un testimonio fascinante de una de las voces mas influyentes de nuestro tiempo.

Un relato íntimo, en primera persona, de la juventud de Andrea CamilleriMucho antes de convertirse en el célebre creador del entrañable comisario Salvo Montalbano, el siciliano Andrea Camilleri era un joven lleno de ingenio y anhelos que daba sus primeros pasos en el mundo del teatro. Becado en la Academia de Arte Dramatico de Roma, combatia la soledad y la distancia de su familia --y de su tierra natal, Porto Empedocle-- mediante una intensa y regular correspondencia, especialmente con su madre.En estas emotivas cartas, escritas entre 1949 y 1960, se revela el lado mas intimo y desconocido de un autor al que millones de lectores han llegado a amar gracias a sus inolvidables historias. A traves de sus palabras, seguimos su itinerario formativo, desde sus titubeantes inicios como estudiante hasta sus primeros escarceos literarios como poeta y critico.Con un lenguaje fresco, directo y lleno de vitalidad, Camilleri nos habla de sus pasiones, amistades, ilusiones y decepciones, abriendonos las puertas de su vida cotidiana: las estrecheces economicas, las elecciones afectivas y el vibrante ambiente teatral romano. Tambien descubrimos la importancia que tuvieron en su trayectoria profesional tres figuras clave del panorama escenico italiano: la relacion especial con Orazio Costa y Vittorio Gassman, y la mas compleja con Silvio dAmico, quienes marcaron profundamente su carrera.Desconocidas hasta ahora para los fieles lectores de Camilleri, estas cartas nos permiten asomarnos a las raices profundas de su talento y comprender mejor la riqueza de una escritura capaz de crear tramas animadas y personajes memorables. Un testimonio vital y literario de enorme valor que ilumina los años de formacion de uno de los narradores mas queridos del siglo XX.La critica ha dicho:La correspondencia proyecta en un segundo plano las siluetas, a veces borrosas, otras mas claras, del mundo cultural, no solo italiano sino europeo, de los años cincuenta. De Vittorio Gassman a Alberto Moravia, de Jean Cocteau a Jean Genet.Corriere della SeraUnas cartas maravillosas. [...] El futuro gran escritor siciliano llega a Roma con una beca. Estudia direccion, descubre la ciudad y su mundo cultural, y se lo cuenta todo a su familia.La StampaUnas cartas autenticas y a veces conmovedoras, que revelan el lado mas intimo y personal de un narrador aun no formado plenamente, pero ya lleno de talento.Gazzetta del SudEl teatro, la Academia, Roma, los grandes autores y relaciones, en primer lugar la mantenida con Orazio Costa, que forman una galeria del mundo cultural de la posguerra. Desde 1949, año en que se traslada a la capital, hasta 1960, mas de una decada despues, estas epistolas de Camilleri a sus padres, hasta ahora ineditas, nos ofrecen un retrato cabal del escritor en su juventud.AnsaUna jugosa correspondencia que permite realizar un sorprendente viaje a traves de los años de formacion del padre del comisario Montalbano.La Repubblica. Edizione PalermoUna joya.Il MessaggeroUn epistolario riquisimo.Giornale di Sicilia

El mundo que se refleja inconscientemente en los textos que he escrito a lo largo de mi vida es, de alguna manera, un espejo de mi propio tiempo, afirma Gregorio Marañón. En este volumen el autor ha querido recoger piezas fechadas entre 1982 y 2025. En ellas aborda la politica nacional desde un marcado espiritu de la Transicion, un espiritu que añora porque contribuiria a combatir "la desmemoria que no cesa". Tambien perfila un pais a traves de diversos retratos, a veces desde un prisma mas familiar; otras, mas empresarial. Y por supuesto esta Toledo, esa ciudad tan querida, de un gran peso sentimental y simbolico para el. Todo ello se complementa con algunos textos dedicados a la experiencia del viaje, fisico y metaforico. De manera que los textos exponen una trayectoria vital comprometida con unos principios. En palabras de Pedro J. Ramirez, "como Kundera decia de Havel, la gran obra de arte de Gregorio Marañon esta siendo su propia vida. Y no tanto por sus multiples cualidades sino por la trascendencia de su proposito". Un proposito vestido de consenso, ya que, como afirma Iñaki Gabilondo, Gregorio Marañon arrastra "el sambenito de los conciliadores, que en nuestro pais surfean como pueden en el oleaje que originan los extremismos y los fanaticos de las ortodoxias", y su espacio natural es "la plaza de la concordia". Asi lo demuestra este libro.

London had a special place in Agatha Christies heart. In her childhood, she would visit the capital to stay with her Auntie Grannie; as an adult, she owned several homes in the city. A re-occurring location in her stories, London is where Poirot and Hastings, and Tommy and Tuppence reside, and even Miss Marple cannot resist a trip up to town to do shopping in its department stores.With this refreshing take on the Queen of Crimes connections to the city in both her life and writing, Tina Hodgkinson follows in Christies footsteps, visiting her former homes, fashionable restaurants, luxury hotels and other London locations that she and her characters frequented. Discover the Apothecaries Hall in the City of London, where Agatha sat her medical exams, the hospital she worked in during the Second World War, the former headquarters of the Detection Club and the theatres, where her plays were performed.Christie wrote about the capital in every decade of her extensive literary career, and this detailed but accessible compendium will delight Christie fans both old and new.

The Subtle Art of Short Fiction explores the power of short fiction in todays fragmented world. Renowned authors and critics offer advanced techniques for crafting nuanced, impactful stories. Learn to master short story structure, subtext, micro-tension, and sensory minimalism. Ideal for experienced writers seeking to refine their skills in this sophisticated art form, or those who love short fiction, and want to learn about the craft behind it. Essays and writing exercises by Dr Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Daisy Johnson, Matt Wesolowski, Sascha Akhtar, David Hartley, Mahsuda Snaith, Dr Jonathan Taylor, Sarah Schofield, SJ Bradley and Farhana Shaikh. With an introduction by Dr Paul March-Russell.

In his irreverent and uncompromising bestselling And What Do You Do? former Minister of State and Privy Counsellor Norman Baker laid bare what the British royal family didnt want us to know, namely its extravagant use of public money and general bad behaviour.This glorious sequel goes even deeper in its analysis of royal finances, examining where the money comes from, how it is used and what has changed with the arrival of a new King and a new Prince of Wales.

In 1842, five years before they would become bestselling authors, Charlotte Bronte and her sister Emily arrived in Brussels. They were there to improve their French and German, but the years they spent in a pensionnat being taught by the charismatic Constantin Heger would do much more than polish their languages. It was a crucial turning point for both their writing and their personal lives. Each came away from Brussels a more mature and capable artist; Charlotte, having fallen lastingly in love with Heger, left with a broken heart and the inspiration for two novels, The Professor and Villette.Based on the Brontes essays and Charlottes letters and novels, as well as research into the Brussels of the time, this is a fascinating look at a formative period in the lives of two great writers. Tracing the influence of their Brussels years through their writing, MacEwan gives us insight into their artistic formation, and paints a vivid picture of the bustling 19th-century city that opened the sisters eyes to life beyond Haworth Parsonage.

The remarkable literary collaboration between a Nobel Prizewinning novelist and his editor of more than forty years.Three people have been of major importance and influence in my life and you are one of them. There is a way in which I am as a writer at least partly your creation.-- William Golding to Charles Monteith In 1953, William Goldings novel Lord of the Flies was rescued from a slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts by Charles Monteith, a new young editor at the publishing house Faber & Faber. It went on to sell over 25 million copies. Over the next forty years Monteith worked closely with Golding on every one of his novels.These letters tell the story of their remarkable collaboration. They chart Goldings transformation from unknown middle-aged schoolmaster to knighted Nobel Prizewinner, and they tell the story of a deep and mutually rewarding friendship, as Dear Monteith and Dear Golding become Dear Charles and Dear Bill.In this beautifully produced, stitch-bound volume, Tim Kendall draws on both public and private archives to reveal the relationship between one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and his publisher, both men who considered themselves, for different reasons, to be outsiders. Their correspondence sheds fascinating light on both the mysteries of the writing process and the vagaries of the literary world.Generous, amusing, acerbic, intimate and often irreverent, these letters encompass gossip, reading recommendations and stories of Greek island adventures as well as detailed discussion of titles, characters and Goldings dreadful spelling.

Ela era a menina do canto. Invisível, sensível, desacreditada. No entanto, este livro não é sobre ficar no canto ― é sobre levantar, gritar, escrever e existir. Elen – do invisível ao extraordinário

Publicado pela primeira vez em 1815, Emma é considerado a obra-prima de Jane Austen. Maduro e brilhante, conta a história de Emma Woodhouse, uma jovem bonita, inteligente e rica, que não se interessa

Esta obra nos transporta para o lar dos Bennet, no qual as cinco filhas – Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty e Lydia – enfrentam a pressão social do casamento, já que a ausência de um herdeiro masculino co

On 12 May 2019, Manchester City became the first team to retain the Premier League title for a decade.Twenty years earlier, the same club was slogging its way fortuitously out of Division Two, having sunk ignominiously to the third tier, its glory days well behind it.Ordinarily, the tale of a sleeping giant awaking to stomp gleefully over the competition would be celebrated far beyond the core fanbase. But Citys success is tied inextricably to its takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group in September 2008, an event that altered the clubs horizons beyond any plausible recognition. The injection of billions of pounds into the club and accusations that Abu Dhabi is sports washing its reputation have tarnished Citys domestic treble-winning season in 202223, as have serious charges of financial impropriety from the Premier League.Glory Days for the Waifs and the Strays charts this route from noble rags to uncomfortable riches and unpacks what it means when a teams lowest lows and highest highs occur improbably within a generation.It amounts to a story like no other in modern football. The distance travelled from there to here, the iconic human moments along the way, the greats on either side of the white line and the uniquely divisive means by which its been achieved. Manchester City have defined an era in English football. This is the tale of how that happened and why it matters.

Enchanting Stephen FryDid you know:- Lord Byron sold more books in a day than Jane Austen did in her lifetime- During the First World War there were more women poets published than soldier poets- A kitchen-maid became one of the most popular poets of the 18th centurySome people worry that they dont appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasnt written to be appreciated, it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment - for fun, romance, religion and entertainment - and this is a book about those people.Rhyme ### Reason takes you from a medieval accountant (called Chaucer) trying to entertain his lord, past a doomed love affair in the Tower of London, through adoring sonnets and notebooks filled with dirty poems, and into the heart of Byromania and the Victorian hearth, to help you understand why poetry has had such an enduring hold on the British psyche.From the poems of housemaids to the rhymes of kings, its the history of Britain through the poems that people read, recited and loved.