Titres dans Arts et littérature

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature’s elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.

"Sono nato nel segno della Bilancia: perciò nel mio carattere equilibrio e squilibrio correggono a vicenda i loro eccessi. Sono nato mentre i miei genitori stavano per tornare in patria dopo anni passati nei Caraibi: da ciò l'instabilità geografica che mi fa continuamente desiderare un altrove. Il sapere dei miei genitori convergeva sul regno vegetale, le sue meraviglie e virtù. Io, attratto da un'altra vegetazione, quella delle frasi scritte, voltai le spalle a quanto essi m'avrebbero potuto insegnare; ma la sapienza dell'umano mi restò ugualmente estranea." (Italo Calvino)

Un testimonio extraordinario que enseña la lección más valiosa: cómo dar sentido a nuestra vida. Considerado por The Washington Post como el libro de memorias más vendido de la historia, Martes con mi viejo profesor narra la experiencia vivida por Mitch Albom con Morrie Schwartz, uno de sus profesores de la universidad, al que vuelve a ver por casualidad muchos años después en una entrevista en televisión, en la que se entera de que su viejo profesor sufre ELA, una enfermedad degenerativa. Albom entra de nuevo en contacto con él y le propone verse todos los martes.

Et si Deborah Levy nous ouvrait les portes de sa bibliothèque personnelle ? Si elle nous emmenait à la découverte des artistes qui l'inspirent et la secouent ?

Durante veintiún años como reportero de guerra, Arturo Pérez-Reverte vivió en primera línea los conflictos más cruentos del último tercio del siglo XX. Su experiencia en escenarios bélicos de todo el mundo marcó su vida y dejó huella en su posterior obra literaria. Con el tiempo, el antiguo reportero fue configurando una biografía de guerra que es, además, uno de los relatos más extraordinarios del periodismo en lengua española.

Brought to you by Penguin. **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD** 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment...

The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history. From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history. French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or running messages for the French resistance, their stories of courage, creativity and genius have long defined French history.

Deux ans aux mains d'Al-Qaida : une plongée immersive dans l'enfer de la captivité " Le véhicule file dans la nuit. Dans ma tête, les images des derniers événements, brouillés par les visages de mon fils, de Gigi, de Déborah, s'entremêlent. Les reverrai-je ? Dans l'obscurité qui...

Una de las obras más autobiográficas y conmovedoras de Paul Auster, en la que investiga y reflexiona sobre la figura del padre. «Unos retratos tan conmovedores como delicadamente percibidos de vidas y relaciones», The New York Times Book Review. «Auster ha inventado un nuevo estilo de...

Um clássico da não ficção brasileira lançado em 1982, Feliz ano velho marca a estreia de Marcelo Rubens Paiva na literatura e desde então vem conquistando gerações de leitores com sua prosa tocante e ao mesmo tempo irreverente. Essa edição comemorativa de 40 anos inclui caderno de...

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Nonfiction Finalist for the World Fantasy Special Award – Professional A captivating anthology and heartfelt tribute to the horror genre featuring essays from several of the most celebrated contemporary horror writers including...

Deborah Levy revient sur sa vie. Elle fuit à Majorque pour réfléchir et se retrouver, et pense à l'Afrique du Sud, ce pays qu'elle a quitté, à son enfance, à l'apartheid, à son père – militant de l'ANC emprisonné –, aux oiseaux en cage, et à l'Angleterre, son pays d'adoption. Telle la marquise Cabrera se délectant du 'chocolat magique', elle est devenue écrivaine en lisant Marguerite Duras et Virginia Woolf.

2 janvier 1949, dix-huit footballeurs du bourg de Corps-Nuds, en Bretagne, revenant d'un match, trouvent la mort dans un accident. Comment cet accident annonce-t-il la journée du 22 mai où Jean-Paul Kauffmann sera enlevé à Beyrouth et détenu en otage durant trois années ? Après l'accident libanais, ce récit sur l'inexplicable s'est imposé à l'auteur.

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2026 BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY FINALIST FOR THE 2026 HERITAGE TORONTO BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD A hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is...

In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society - perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism.

Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. At once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment, Black Boy is a poignant record of struggle and endurance—a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time. When...

This program is read by the author. “The audiobook, which Brown narrates, reveals shades of personality that may not come through as vividly in print; and Brown’s British accent enriches the listener’s imaginings of what she was like as a boss.” — The New Yorker Tina Brown kept...

Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation that would continue until Bacon's death 30 years later. Fascinated by the artist's brilliance and charisma, Peppiatt accompanied him on his nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club and casino, seeing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter life' and meeting everybody around him.

In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia.

Pur sotto forma romanzesca, "Cosima" è l'autobiografia di Grazia Deledda pubblicata postuma nel 1937, l'ultima opera della prima ed unica donna italiana a vincere il premio Nobel per la letteratura. Grazia Deledda morì a Roma il 15 agosto 1936. Dopo qualche settimana il primogenito Sardus trovò in un cassetto della sua casa un autografo senza titolo e senza la parola "fine".