Résultats pour "A" dans Arts et littérature

The groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, from one of our leading literary biographers. Hermione Lee reveals the full story of a brilliant, idiosyncratic and complex woman and goes deep into Anita Brookner’s marvellous work in all its...

A critical biography contextualizing major events from Twain’s life as they pertain to his writing and modern legacy, from the bestselling author of the Edgar Allan Poe biography A Mystery of Mysteries. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter...

‘In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain’s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes, the most widely read author in human history...

February 29th is a date that comes into existence just once every four years. It is also the birthday of Thais - author Anne-Dauphine Julliand's darling daughter - who died of a genetic disease. Thais lived just shy of her fourth birthday. She had a short life but good one. As this special day is about to reappear on her calendar for the first time since her daughter passed away, Anne-Dauphine struggles with how to mark this momentous occasion. She wants to live fully on this special day: Thais would have been eight years old.

At festive gatherings celebrating summer's peak, in reflective moments as winter gave way, Rebecca Tamás began to hear another rhythm. A faint hint that, underneath the rush of clocks and calendars, another, richer kind of time might exist. As she suffered from grief and burnout, Tamás sought a deeper connection to the movement of the seasons through an immersion in old folkways. She set out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions.

It was Benjamin Franklin who came up with the list - temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility. Writer and visual artist Teresa Jordan wondered if Franklin's perhaps antiquated notions of virtue might offer guidance to a nation increasingly divided by angry righteousness. She decided to try to live his list for a year, focusing on each virtue for a week at a time and taking weekends off to attend to the seven deadly sins.

Un viaje apasionante a través de la vida y el pensamiento de uno de los filósofos más destacados de su tiempo: Ralph Waldo Emerson. «Es la vida lo que tiene valor, no el haber vivido.» Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson fue en su tiempo y será por siempre una fuente de inspiración...

Una nueva, revolucionaria y muy documentada aportación a los estudios sobre Marcel Proust. Aunque hoy casi nadie lo recuerde, Marcel Proust escribió En busca del tiempo perdido, gracias a una extraordinaria capacidad de percepción que le permitió ver lo que nadie pudo. Sus contemporáneos lo...

El relato complementario de una época apasionante Diecisiete periodistas, una mesa, un invitado de excepción y una consigna: estrictamente confidencial. En 1979, un grupo de jóvenes reporteros con ganas de informarse sobre los resortes de la naciente democracia impulsó una serie de...

El libro de la premio Nobel de la paz, la periodista que puso en jaque a una dictadura. «Por su esfuerzo por salvaguardar la libertad de expresión como condición imprescindible para la democracia y la paz duradera. » Con esas palabras reconocía la Academia sueca la labor y el esfuerzo de...

En un relato personal, íntimo y profundo, a raíz de su propia experiencia con un padre alcohólico, Olivia Laing nos propone una nueva perspectiva para entender los procesos creativos de seis célebres escritores norteamericanos partiendo de sus biografías y su relación con el alcohol. ¿A...

Un viaje a la destrucción con un AK-47 en la mano Este no es un libro sobre un arma. El kaláshnikov es mucho más que eso: el triste emblema de la discordia y la muerte. Barato y fácil de manejar, apenas cuarenta dólares y tres kilos de peso, no hay conflicto bélico en el que no haya...

Mark Colvin is a broadcasting legend. He is the voice of ABC Radio’s leading current affairs program PM; he was a founding broadcaster for the groundbreaking youth station Double J; he initiated The World Today program; and he’s one of the most popular and influential journalists in the twittersphere. Mark has been covering local and global events for more than four decades. He has reported on wars, royal weddings and everything in between. In the midst of all this he discovered that his father was an MI6 spy.

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility, madness and creativity and what it means to be a carer...

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this...

Renowned author Pam Houston treats us to a celebration of real-life adventures in this rich collection of essays. Ranging over five years and five continents, A Little More About Me introduces us to a woman - adventure-seeking, curious, and awestruck - whose experiences resonate with our own navigation through life’s many pleasures and challenges.

Earl Lovelace is a major Caribbean writer, one of the few of his generation to have lived in and written almost exclusively from the region. With sharp observation and even sharper wit, his writing pulses with the rhythm, flow, and vibrancy of the lives of “ordinary” people, whose culture and language he champions. In this brief but rich biography, Funso Aiyejina explores the writer and his work with the intimacy of a friend and the perceptiveness of a scholar.