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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.

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.

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 story of my life is the story of my stories, writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our time.While Orlean has always written her way into other peoples lives in order to understand the human experience, Joyride is her most personal book ever - a searching journey through finding her feet as a journalist, recovering from the excruciating collapse of her first marriage, falling head-over-heels in love again, becoming a parent while mourning the decline of her own mother, sojourning to Hollywood for films based on her work including Adaptation and Blue Crush, and confronting mortality. Joyride is also a time machine to a bygone era of journalism, from Orleans bright start in the golden age of alt-weeklies to her career-making days working alongside icons such as Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown, David Remnick, Anna Wintour and Sonny Mehta - forces who shaped the media industry as we know it today.Infused with Orleans signature warmth and wit, Joyride is a must-read for anyone who hungers to start, build and sustain a creative life.

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