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Una hoja de ruta para novelistas, dramaturgos y guionistasPartiendo del concepto antropológico y mitológico del «viaje del héroe» (desarrollado por Joseph Campbell y Carl G. Jung), Christopher Vogler

UNA HISTORIA FASCINANTE Y ACCESIBLE DEL MILAGRO CULTURAL DE LA PALABRA ESCRITA, DESDE EL MUNDO ANTIGUO HASTA LA ÉPOCA MODERNA.Desde las simples formas representativas que se usaban en el antiguo Egipto para registrar los trueques hasta los sofisticados recursos tipograficos disponibles en un ordenador del siglo XXI, podemos afirmar que los distintos periodos de la evolucion de la escritura conforman la historia de la civilizacion misma.En Los nombres del mundo, Ewan Clayton analiza esta evolucion y explora su impacto social y cultural: la invencion del alfabeto; la sustitucion del rollo de papiro por el codice en la epoca tardorromana; el perfeccionamiento en el siglo XV de la imprenta que se vale de tipos moviles y la consiguiente extension de la alfabetizacion; la industrializacion de los procesos de impresion durante la Revolucion francesa; el impacto que tuvo en la palabra escrita el modernismo a principios del siglo XX, y los significativos cambios que la era digital ha supuesto en nuestros habitos de escritura en el comienzo de este siglo. El esclarecedor libro de Clayton es un lugar ideal para iniciar una exploracion de la mas sofisticada de las tecnologias: la escritura. Daily TelegraphUn libro que ningun bibliofilo se debe perder. Publishers WeeklyEsta fascinante y bien documentada ruta que propone el caligrafo y exmonje britanico Ewan Clayton repasa la evolucion del alfabeto latino, desde el pincel hasta los pixeles. BabeliaEl libro es, mas que una historia de la escritura, un relato de la cultura contada por las letras, los jeroglificos, las plumas, los pergaminos, las maquinas de escribir y los procesadores de texto. El Mundo

Veinte lecciones vitales de nuestros clásicos, más actuales que nunca, comentadas por una de las mayores expertas en literatura hispánica.Rosa Navarro, con una gran dosis de sabiduría y cercanía, nos invita a compartir mesa con veinte obras de nuestra literatura para que asistamos a un banquete unico. En el, aprenderemos que el origen de lo que muchas veces damos por sentido comun, se encuentra en obras literarias escritas hace mucho tiempo. Fragmentos breves pero intensos, elegidos por su belleza, su ingenio y su sorprendente actualidad.

Hubo otra revolución en el país galo antes de 1789: la de María de Francia. Si no se cuenta en los manuales es porque, a diferencia de la primera, fue una revolución fallida, cuyas reivindicaciones no llegaron a convertirse en arietes capaces de derribar las puertas de la Bastilla. Incluso la memoria de Maria se perdio con el tiempo, y su verdadera identidad quedo desdibujada. Sin embargo, sus ideas sobre la mujer, la relacion entre los sexos y el amor conformaron una nueva vision del mundo, por primera vez totalmente femenina, en la que la mujer quedaba liberada de la jaulas ideologicas en las que habia sido constreñida, durante la Alta Edad Media, por la convergencia de la virilidad germanica y la misoginia monastica. Esta vision represiva y condenatoria de la mujer empezo a resquebrajarse en el siglo XII cuando, en los circulos aristocraticos franceses, estallo la revolucion del amor cortes encabezada por Maria. En parte con sus propias palabras, en parte inspirando a otros con sus rompedoras ideas, Maria abandero una nueva condicion femenina, exigiendo libertad sexual y sentimental para las mujeres. Por ello fue vilipendiada y nunca se reconocio su altura como intelectual, aunque su nueva gramatica de las relaciones erotico-sentimentales lo que popularmente ha pasado a la historia bajo la etiqueta del amor cortes causo furor entre sus contemporaneos.Hubo una mujer en la Edad Media que escribio sobre el amor libre, la violacion, el adulterio, el deseo. Pero durante siglos su verdadera identidad fue un misterio. Chiara Mercuri ha resuelto el enigma en este libro. La Repubblica

Nick Hornby conecta la vida y obra de dos genios a los que adora.¿Qué diantre tienen que ver Charles Dickens y Prince, un escritor británico del siglo XIX y un músico estadounidense del XX? De entrada, que Nick Hornby siente pasion por ambos. Pero hay mas. Coincidencias tal vez curiosas, acaso significativas que los conectan.Por ejemplo: antes de cumplir los treinta ambos tenian ya una solida carrera, habian dado a luz unas cuantas obras maestras y eran muy influyentes. Por ejemplo: ambos vivieron una infancia marcada por la pobreza, mostraron un decidido sentido del negocio y en algun momento se sintieron estafados. Por ejemplo: ambos murieron a los cincuenta y ocho años. Por ejemplo: ambos estaban obsesionados con el trabajo y eran hiperproductivosNacidos en dos continentes distintos con mas de un siglo de diferencia Dickens en Portsmouth en 1812, Prince en Mineapolis en 1958, estos dos genios comparten mas puntos de conexion de lo que pueda parecer a simple vista. Hay en sus vidas y sus carreras paralelismos que le permiten al autor trazar un sugestivo, apasionante doble retrato.Con el dinamismo y el entusiasmo habituales en Nick Hornby, este es un ensayo a un tiempo ameno y enjundioso, divertido y profundo, ludico y serio. Y sobre todo: una lectura apasionante.

Unretratopreciso ymordaz delmundo editorialdesdedentro,poralguiendedicadotoda lavida asentenciarmanuscritos.El arte de rechazar manuscritos nunca es sencillo: deja una herida en el ego de quienes escriben. En España, por cada uno de los noventa mil libros que se publican al año, se descartan quince veces mas propuestas. ¿El responsable de todo esto? El editor. En este breve ensayo, Constantino Bertolo reflexiona con lucidez e ironia sobre las luces y sombras de un oficio que convierte en libro la promesa de un texto y acompaña con dedicacion la creacion literaria.--------------La coleccion Endebate es el hogar de aquellos textos breves que presentan una opinion, defienden una actitud o cuentan una historia, pero son mas un aperitivo que un banquete, estimulan la conversacion mas que saciarla e inician un festin (que no clausuran). Como los mejores bocados, entran por los ojos y dejan un largo poso en el paladar.

From the elegance of the grand salons of Prideaux Place, Padstows most stately of homes, to the wild and remote Cornish coastline, Rosamunde Pilcher captured in her novels Cornwalls unique, diverse beauty and compelling charm. WINNER of the Gorsedh Kernows Holyer an Gof Awards 2023.Rosamunde Pilcher grew up near St Ives, publishing her first novel at the age of 25. Cornwall remained her long-standing inspiration with most of her novels set in this wonderfully diverse landscape. Her most famous novel, The Shell Seekers, catapulted Rosamunde to international fame and created a dedicated fan-base.This new Pitkin guidebook takes the reader on a tour of the key areas and places that inspired Pilchers creative writing. Clamber down the steep Bedruthan Steps and enjoy the traditional Cornish welcome in the beautiful harbour town of St Ives. St Michaels Mount, one of the most famous sights in Cornwall, sits majestically off shore while the sound of the waves battering the coastline is a key element in enjoying a visit to Lands End. These sites and many more informed Rosamunde Pilchers writing, making her novels and short stories some of the most popular and cherished around the world, several of which have been adapted for television.

In 1933, Gertrude Stein published her groundbreaking memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which gained her instant celebrity. The following year she was invited to return to the United States for the first time since she left for France in 1903, to give a series of lectures on art and literature. Newly famous, Stein delivered her lectures, which double as a manifesto for her own, notoriously difficult work, to packed audiences at universities, galleries, members clubs and public spaces up and down the country. The lectures are vital and provocative works which articulate the legendary writers thoughts on the effect of modernism on literary form, the relationship between narrative and history, and between a writer, their work and its audience. In her trademark style she meditates on the creative possibilities of repetition, as well as her ambivalence toward her own literary fame and the destabilizing effect that notoriety had on her daily life. Listen to Me brings Steins sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade.

The Death of the Clinic: Radical Experiments in the Art of Medicine weaves together biography, history and personal reflection in a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history. A sex clinic housed in a stately mansion in Weimar Berlin. A preventive health centre in pre-NHS London. A radical institute of psychiatry and medical philosophy in a post-war French chateau. A feminist health centre born from the womens liberation movement in Geneva. A grassroots research initiative featuring clinical trials run by and for people with AIDS in 1980s-90s New York. Each of these clinics emerged in response to seismic political shifts and era-defining global events yet at their heart lie the stories of extraordinary individuals who dared to reimagine how we care for one another. At once deeply personal and sharply analytical, Benoit Loiseaus investigation is anchored in his own encounters with medical care and in the quiet influence of one health worker who shaped his life: his mother. In moving and reflective interludes addressed to her, Loiseau illuminates the emotional and ethical stakes of medicine today. Reframing Michel Foucaults seminal text, The Death of the Clinic is a radical invitation to reimagine the clinic not as a fixed institution, but as a living, evolving practice rooted in care, resistance and collective imagination.

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like since that pivotal date. She has selected twenty-six of these narratives to share with the world. Yazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five, who have witnessed what history may one day remember as one of the most savage military offensives of our time. Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable loss homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated and many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks. But these survivors remain determined to share their stories, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate. The title, Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, is adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombing.

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art and ideas. Could academia live up to the hopes and dreams he had invested in it? Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of reading and writing seemed even higher. Ambivalence explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. Its at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life. In vivid present-tense fragments, Dillon describes his first encounters with writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. He recalls being seduced by ambivalence, ambiguity and androgyny on the page and in the life he hoped his reading would transfigure. The era he describes seemed to demand new ways of thinking about aesthetics and politics. Today, when rights are fragile, arts and humanities attacked, and students dismissed as radicals or narcissists, Ambivalence is an argument for the poetic and revolutionary force of changing yourself and even the world by changing what you know.

In August 1939, a ship flying the Polish flag docked in Buenos Aires. On board was a delegation of businessmen, diplomats and journalists. Days later, the captain received orders to return home with all crew and passengers in light of the imminent outbreak of the Second World War. But one man, fascinated by the city, chose to stay at the very last minute. Thus began the unexpected twenty-four-year Argentine exile of one of the twentieth centurys major writers: Witold Gombrowicz. Drawing on his writings and interviews with surviving disciples, writers and scholars, Mercedes Halfons Outsider Everywhere traces Gombrowiczs Argentine years in elegant, pared-back prose, and composes a vivid account of mid-century bohemia in Buenos Aires. Brilliantly translated by Rahul Bery, Mercedes Halfons Outsider Everywhere is a gripping portrait of a literary figure on the margins who rose to prominence late in life to become one of the greatest novelists of our century (Milan Kundera).

Um panorama — abrangente, crítico e acessível — da ficção brasileira das últimas décadas. Afinal, o que é o contemporâneo? Quando ocorreu seu início? Quando terá seu fim? Pode ser entendido — ou conf

Uma interpretação exemplar da obra do escritor argentino Julio Cortázar. Enquanto deslinda as linhas mestras da ficção cortazariana, Arrigucci investiga questões colocadas pela melhor literatura cont

Uma história literária; social e afetiva da cena cultural do Brasil – com enfoque em Manuel Bandeira e seus afetos. A trinca do Curvelo é um desses prodígios da articulação entre crítica literária; c