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La bataille de Forillon
By Lionel Bernier. 2001
L'auteur, qui a vecu à Cap-des-Rosiers, dans la partie du village aujourd'hui devenue le parc de Forillon, raconte cet épisode…
de l'histoire du Québec. La bataille que déclenche le gouvernement lorsque le 22 juillet 1970, il annonce à quelques milliers de villageois de la pointe de Forillon en Gaspésie qu'il les exproprie de leurs terres pour faire un parc nationalThe Faculty of Dreams: Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
By Sara Stridsberg. 2006
In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead…
in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, where she was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was interned.Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminisces and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.La torre oscura (y otras historias): Una colección de relatos futuristas
By C. S. Lewis. 2023
Publicado por primera vez en el idioma español, La Torre oscura revela otro lado de la mente creativa de Lewis y su…
fascinación por la realidad y la espiritualidad.Este libro imprescindible de C. S. Lewis es una colección de relatos futuristas publicada póstumamente. En las obras se recoge su permanente fascinación por la realidad y la espiritualidad. Muchas de ellas están inacabadas, pero contienen una gran sabiduría sobre la naturaleza de la realidad. Esta colección de ficción futurista incluye una impresionante historia de ciencia ficción escrita al principio de su carrera en la que los intelectuales de Cambridge son testigos de la ruptura del espacio-tiempo a través de un &“cronoscopio&”, un telescopio que mira no solo a otro mundo, sino a otro tiempo. Tan poderosa, inventiva y profunda como sus obras teológicas y filosóficas, La torre oscura es una lectura ideal para los fanáticos de J. R. R. Tolkien, el viejo amigo y colega de Lewis.The Dark TowerPublished for the first time in Spanish, The Dark Tower reveals another side of Lewis' creative mind and his fascination with reality and spirituality.This signature book is a repackaged edition of the futuristic collection of short stories by C.S. Lewis published after his death. The works include his longtime fascination with reality and spirituality. Many pieces are unfinished yet provide great wisdom about the nature of reality. This collection of futuristic fiction includes a breathtaking science fiction story written early in his career in which Cambridge intellectuals witness the breach of space-time through a chronoscope—a telescope that looks not just into another world, but into another time. As powerful, inventive, and profound as his theological and philosophical works, The Dark Tower is an ideal read for fans of J. R. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis's longtime friend and colleague.The Valkyries: An Encounter with Angels
By Paulo Coelho. 1992
A Magical Tale About Forgiving Our Past and Believing in Our Future The enchanting, true story of The Valkyries begins…
in Rio de Janeiro when author Paulo Coelho gives his mysterious master J., the only manuscript for his book The Alchemist. Haunted by a devastating curse, Coelho confesses to J., "I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed about to achieve them." In response, J. gives Coelho a daunting task: He must find and speak with his guardian angel. "The curse can be broken," he replies, "if you complete the task." Rising to the challenge, Paulo and his wife, Cristina, drop everything, pack their bags, and take off on a forty day adventure into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert -- where they encounter more than they bargained for. A masterful blend of the exotic locales, dramatic adventure, and magical storytelling, for which Coelho's fictional works are renowned, this true-life account is at once a modern-day adventure and a metaphysical odyssey.Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary
By Lydia Lunch. 2003
The unspeakable sexual confessions of legend Lydia Lunch; introduction by Jerry Stahl, afterword by Thurston Moore. “Paradoxia reveals that Lunch…
is at her best when she’s at her worst . . . [and] gives voice to her sometimes scary, frequently funny, always canny, never sentimental siren song."—Barbara Kruger, Artforum Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelized account of one woman’s assault on men. Lydia Lunch was the primary instigator of the No Wave Movement and the focal point of the Cinema of Transgression. A musician, writer, and photographer, she exposes the dark underbelly of passion confronting the lusty demons whose struggle for power and control forever stalk the periphery of our collective obsessions.