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Selected works and incidental writings by the celebrated author of A River Runs Through It, plus excerpts from a 1986…
interview.In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim—as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. Though the 1976 collection A River Runs Through It and Other Stories was the only book Maclean published in his lifetime, it was an unexpected success, and the moving family tragedy of the title novella—based largely on Maclean’s memories of his childhood home in Montana—has proved to be one of the most enduring American stories ever written.The Norman Maclean Reader is a wonderful addition to Maclean’s celebrated oeuvre. Bringing together previously unpublished materials with incidental writings and selections from his more famous works, the Reader will serve as the perfect introduction for readers new to Maclean, while offering longtime fans new insight into his life and career.In this evocative collection, Maclean as both a writer and a man becomes evident. Perceptive, intimate essays deal with his career as a teacher and a literary scholar, as well as the wealth of family stories for which Maclean is famous. Complete with a generous selection of letters, as well as excerpts from a 1986 interview, The Norman Maclean Reader provides a fully fleshed-out portrait of this much admired author, showing us a writer fully aware of the nuances of his craft, and a man as at home in the academic environment of the University of Chicago as in the quiet mountains of his beloved Montana.Various and moving, the works collected in The Norman Maclean Reader serve as both a summation and a celebration, giving readers a chance once again to hear one of American literature’s most distinctive voices.Praise for The Norman MacLean Reader“A solid, satisfying, well-made body of work by a patient craftsman.” —Chicago Tribune“The Norman Maclean Reader fills out and makes more human the impressions of the restless, inquiring storyteller we saw in previously published works. In his writings, at their best, we too feel the thrusts and strains. He is a writer of great beauty, in his own terms.” —Financial Times“Weltzien has not only done great service for Norman Maclean’s readers, he has rightly expanded Maclean’s place in American literature . . . . For me, The Norman Maclean reader is discovered treasure.” —Bloomsbury ReviewLa nuit (Documents)
By Elie Wiesel. 1999
Ce que j'affirme, c'est que ce témoignage qui vient après tant d'autres et qui décrit une abomination dont nous pourrions…
croire que plus rien ne nous demeure inconnu, est cependant différent, singulier, unique... L'enfant qui nous raconte ici son histoire était un élu de Dieu. Il ne vivait, depuis l'éveil de sa conscience, que pour Dieu, nourri du Talmud, ambitieux d'être initié à la Kabbale, voué à l'Eternel. Avions-nous jamais pensé à cette conséquence d'une horreur moins visible, moins frappante que d'autres abominations, - la pire de toutes, pourtant, pour nous qui possédons la foi : la mort de Dieu dans cette âme d'enfant qui découvre d'un seul coup le mal absolu ?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.Presents Wright's complete autobiography for the first time, combining his childhood in the South (Black Boy) with his life as…
an adult in the North (American Hunger). Also contains his 1953 novel (The Outsider), a literary chronology, and extensive notes. Sequel to Richard Wright: Early Works (DB 41552, BR 10299). Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sexSpeak, memory: an autobiography revisited (Vintage International Ser.)
By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1989
Autobiographical sketches chronicle the author's upper-class childhood in Russia, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that forced his family into exile in…
Europe, and his 1940 move to the United States. First published in 1951 under the title Conclusive Evidence and revised in 1966. 1947L'autre fille (Les affranchis)
By Annie Ernaux. 2011
"Yvetot, un dimanche d'août 1950. Annie a dix ans, elle joue dehors, au soleil, sur le chemin caillouteux de la…
rue de l'Ecole. Sa mère sort de l'épicerie pour discuter avec une cliente, à quelques mètres d'elle. La conversation des deux femmes est parfaitement audible et les bribes d'une confidence inouïe se gravent à jamais dans la mémoire d'Annie. Avant sa naissance, ses parents avaient eu une autre fille. Elle est morte à l'âge de six ans de la diphtérie. Plus jamais Annie n'entendra un mot de la bouche de ses parents sur cette soeur inconnue. Elle ne leur posera jamais non plus une seule question. Mais même le silence contribue à forger un récit qui donne des contours à cette petite fille morte. Car forcément, elle joue un rôle dans l'identité de l'auteur. Les quelques mots, terribles, prononcés par la mère ; des photographies, une tombe, des objets, des murmures, un livret de famille : ainsi se construit, dans le réel et dans l'imaginaire, la fiction de cette " aînée " pour celle à qui l'on ne dit rien. Reste à savoir si la seconde fille, Annie, est autorisée à devenir ce qu'elle devient par la mort de la première..." -- 4e de couvManhattan: Letters from Prehistory
By Hélène Cixous. 2007
Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright…
Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University’s Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured into a picaresque and tragic adventure. Meanwhile, back in France, her children and no-nonsense mother await her return. A young European intellectual’s first contact with America and the city of New York are the background of this story. The experience of Manhattan haunts this labyrinth of a book as, over a period of thirty-five years, its narrator visits and revisits Central Park and a half-buried squirrel, the Statue of Liberty and a never again to be found hotel in the vicinity of Morningside Heights: a journey into memory in which everything is never the same. Traveling from library to library, France to the United States, Shakespeare to Kafka to Joyce, Manhattan deploys with gusto all the techniques for which Cixous’s fiction and essays are known: rapid juxtapositions of time and place, narrative and description, analysis and philosophical reflection. It investigates subjects Cixous has spent her life probing: reading, writing, and the “omnipotence-other” seductions of literature; a family’s flight from Nazi Germany and postcolonial Algeria; childhood, motherhood, and, not least, the strange experience of falling in love with a counterfeit genius.Inventário de Algumas Perdas - Romance de Formação
By Judith Schalansky. 2018
VENCEDOR DO PRÉMIO STREGA EUROPEU 2020 FINALISTA DO INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 Sempre entre a ficção, a biografia e o…
ensaio, este livro único e estrondoso, escrito por um dos nomes mais originais da atual literatura europeia, é uma janela para um mundo perdido, uma reflexão sobre a destruição e a preservação. «Como todos os livros, também este é impelido pelo desejo de deixar que algo sobreviva, de tornar presente o que está no passado, de conjurar o que foi esquecido, de dar voz ao que é mudo e de chorar o que se perdeu.» A história do mundo está repleta de coisas que, desaparecidas, destruídas ou simplesmente esquecidas, se perderam para sempre. Animais, inteiras porções de terra, objetos e construções humanas que vivem agora uma espécie de não-existência, dependentes da imaginação ou da memória para serem resgatados de volta ao presente. Cada uma das doze histórias que compõem este «inventário» apresentauma realidade cujas fronteiras entre a presença e a ausência se tornaram ténues a ponto de se confundirem entre si. Assim, partindode poucos fragmentos e sempre entre a ficção, a biografia e o ensaio, um quadro perdido de Caspar David Friedrich, uma espécie de tigre há muito extinta, a escrita sagrada de uma antiga religião ou os pensamentos de uma Greta Garbo envelhecida que sonha com um último papel tornam-se janelas para um mundo perdido, uma forma de, com tanto de realista como de visionário, preencher o vazio. «(Schalansky) socorreu-se da filosofia, das artes plásticas, da literatura, da história, para criar um objeto único, de uma beleza que resulta do detalhe, de uma espécie de melodia nascida da conjugação minuciosa de cada palavra com a palavra seguinte (...) Um nome a reter entre os mais originais da atual literatura europeia.» — Isabel Lucas, Público «Um livro surpreendente e encantador.» — António Araújo, Público «Judith Schalansky habitua-nos ao estranho encanto da perda, a essa mágica defensiva de se lançar numa contemplação sobre o que à nossa volta reflecte a irremediável ruína de tudo e nos serve de balanço para o nosso próprio impulso de preservação e destruição. (...) Uma obra estrondosa.» — Diogo Vaz Pinto, Jornal i «Unindo ficção,autobiografia e História, esta sumptuosa coleção de textos oferece-nos uma reflexão sobre os variados fenómenos de desaparecimento e destruição.» — FINANCIAL TIMES, MELHOR LIVRO DO ANO «Um livro singular e maravilhoso.» Júri do International Booker Prize «Um livro que desafia géneros.» — The GuardianP.G. Wodehouse, a literary biography
By Benny Green. 1981
Reviews the life of the British comic novelist who is most noted for his 'schoolboy' writing style and as creator…
of Jeeves the Butler, Bertie Wooster, and Psmith. Considers the relationship between Wodehouse's works and his real life experiences as student, bank clerk, and screenwriter. 1981The richer, the poorer: stories, sketches, and reminiscences
By Dorothy West. 1995
A collection of works by the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance. West includes her first short story, The…
Typewriter, written when she was seventeen, along with later stories and essays recounting everyday experiences: needing money, relating to family members, and coping with death. 1995El vendedor de silencio
By Enrique Serna. 2019
«No pedía mucho, carajo, sólo que lo dejaran prostituirse a su modo.» Novela ganadora del Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2019. "El…
asunto histórico corresponde a tiempos próximos al nuestro, transformados en su novela en materia literaria gracias al brío de su discurso narrativo, la verosimilitud de personajes y situaciones, la velocidad de su prosa y su empeño en no dejar nada al azar, en atar todos los cabos. Serna obliga al lector a acompañarlo en cada una de sus acciones y a vivirlas con él." El jurado del Premio Xavier Villaurrutia. A mediados del siglo XX, Carlos Denegri era el líder de opinión más influyente de México. Reportero estrella del diario Excélsior, tenía una red de contactos internacionales envidiada por todos los periodistas. Mimado por el poder, como columnista político sobresalió por su falta de escrúpulos, al grado de que Julio Scherer lo llamó "el mejor y el más vil de los reporteros". Industrializó el "chayote" cuando esa palabra todavía no se usaba en la jerga política. En su Fichero Político, donde fungía como vocero extraoficial de la Presidencia y cobraba todas las menciones, podía difamar a cualquiera con impunidad absoluta. Según Carlos Monsiváis, un coscorrón en esa columna representaba "una temporada en el infierno" para cualquier aspirante a un cargo público. Aunque ganaba millones por publicar alabanzas, se hizo más rico aún por medio de la extorsión, callándose lo que sabía de sus poderosos clientes. La personalidad pública de Carlos Denegri es indisociable de las atroces vejaciones misóginas que cometió en su vida privada. Era tan prepotente y déspota en el trato con las mujeres como en el periodismo, de modo que su patología fue a la vez íntima y social. Radiografía del machismo a la mexicana y epitafio de la dictadura perfecta, esta novela es un estudio de carácter incisivo y mordaz, sustentado en un arduo trabajo de investigación, que por momentos linda con la farsa trágica. Enrique Serna vuelve a una de sus vetas narrativas predilectas, la reconstrucción del pasado, para entregarnos un fresco histórico apasionante. La crítica ha dicho: «Es una importante aportación a la historia y la literatura contemporáneas de México, salida de la pluma -o la laptop- de un autor caracterizado por su implacable ironía y su valiente voluntad estilística, virtudes que lo convierten en uno de los narradores imprescindibles de nuestro tiempo.» El jurado del Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2019 «El arte de Serna consiste en una serie de procedimientos encaminados a hacernos más persuasiva la ilusión realista -esa que sólo puede darse en la mejor literatura-, a comunicar al lector la sensación de estar directamente enfrentado con la vida.» Ignacio Solares «En sus novelas y cuentos descubrimos un arte consumado de la sorpresa, una ferocidad no exenta de gracia y un sentido del sarcasmo que nunca se rebaja a la mera caricatura.» Claude Fell «Quien se acerca a las narraciones de Enrique Serna ríe mucho durante la lectura y al llegar al punto final un ligero malestar lo hace quedarse un tiempo pensativo, como si se reconociera de pronto en el patetismo de los personajes.» Eduardo Antonio Parra «Reconozco en Serna el entendimiento profundo, casi quisquilloso, que consiste en poner el archivo al servicio de la ficción y no ejercer ni de amanuense erudito ni de mero coleccionista de avisos y extravagancias.» Christopher DomínguezThe complete short novels: Introduction by Richard Pevear (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
By Anton Chekhov, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be…
called short novels, here brought together in one one volume for the first time, in a new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyBuena mar
By Antonio Lucas. 2021
El debut narrativo de un periodista estrella.Una travesía en un pesquero que se convierte en un emocionante viaje interior. El…
narrador de Buena mar se embarca, de la manera más literal posible, en un viaje de trabajo. Lo hace porque es periodista y quiere descubrir cómo viven y faenan esos hombres que pasan su vida en alta mar para que nosotros podamos comer pescado fresco. Esta travesía hacia lo desconocido —nunca ha navegado y apenas conoce del mar más que la playa— es también un viaje hacia su propio interior, pues lo que conoce en tierra firme en realidad parece irse a pique: su trabajo, su pareja, su casa, su vocación, su vida entera. Cómo se vive rodeado de agua, cómo van pasando los días entre los timbrazos que anuncian que la red está llena, cómo se ve el horizonte desde un viaje que no se parece a ninguno, qué esperar del trayecto hacia Gran Sol, uno de los caladeros más complicados del mundo. Con estaexperiencia, vivida a través de su propia inocencia pero también a través de la mirada y la sabiduría que la tripulación poco a poco le va prestando, Antonio Lucas trae a nuestras manos la épica de un trabajo agotador y tan desconocido como apasionante. La crítica ha dicho...«Durante años Antonio Lucas nos ha mostrado su talento como periodista inteligente y auténtico, y más aún, como poeta imprescindible. Ahora ha llegado el momento de sorprendernos con Buena mar, su primera incursión en la narrativa, una novela inteligente, llena de sorpresas, de estupor ante la realidad que tiene presente, de melancolía e imaginación. Siempre regateando a la muerte con sensibilidad extrema, con una prosa lírica desbordante y con continuas sorpresas que no pueden dejar a nadie en la pasividad. Un debut extraordinario.»Chus Visor, librero «Una novela para quedarse a vivir en ella.»Edu Galán «Abruma comprobar cómo Antonio Lucas, un poeta que no hace muchos años que dejó de ser chaval, ha desarrollado una obra que puede ser estudiada como una totalidad.»Alejandro Simón Partal, Diario de SevillaForgotten Fitzgerald: Echoes of a Lost America
By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sarah Churchwell. 2014
While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in…
popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these forgotten stories deserve to be rediscovered by the many readers who love Fitzgerald's work. Sarah Churchwell, author of the acclaimed Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, has selected twelve forgotten stories from throughout Fitzgerald's career that refract, in different ways, his most familiar motifs: the changing meanings of America in the first decades of the twentieth century, and the desire to reconcile rich and poor through a romantic search for glamour, hope and wonder. Each of these stories offers a riff on the theme of America, a world we have lost, but can hear echoes of in Fitzgerald's characteristically rich, vivid prose.The Parable Book
By Per Olov Enquist, Deborah Bragan-Turner. 2013
"The love that dare not speak its name . . ." Sweden, 1949. A boy of 15, cutting across a…
garden, chances upon a woman of 51. What ensues is cataclysmic, life-altering. All the more because it cannot be spoken of. Can it never be spoken of?Looking back in late old age at an encounter that transformed him suddenly yet utterly, P.O. Enquist, a titan of Swedish letters, has decided to "come out" - but in ways entirely novel and unexpected. He has written the book that smoldered unwritten within him his entire life. The book he had always seen as the one he could not write.This poignant memoir of love as a religious experience - as a modern form of the Resurrection - is also a deeply felt reflection on the transitoriness of friendship, the fraught nature of family relationships, and the importance of giving voice to what cannot be forgotten. A parable as hauntingly intense as any Bergman film.Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-TurnerNevada Days (MacLehose Press Editions #5)
By Bernardo Atxaga. 2017
Nevada Days is a fictionalised account of Atxaga's nine months' stay as writer-in-residence at the Centre for Basque Studies at…
the University of Nevada. He is accompanied by his wife, Ángela, who is also doing research there, and by their two daughters. During their first few weeks, the family encounter a strange mapache (racoon), which is always staring at them from the garden, a flight of helicopters immediately overhead, a black widow spider, a warning about bears, a party of prisoners in the desert, a lake that is somehow far too calm and too blue, and, not long into their stay, the kidnap and murder of a young girl living in the house right next door.Atxaga tells us about all these strange encounters, and about his colleagues at the university, about the trips the family make to California and across the Sierra Nevada and to Lake Tahoe, but this narrative is also interspersed with accounts of his dreams, with stories from his past.Nevada Days seductively weaves together past and present, and shows us how deeply marked we are by experience and history and relationships, however fleeting or enduring, and reminds us what a very strange thing life is.Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull CostaEn mil pedazos
By James Frey. 2003
«El relato más lacerante sobre la adicción a las drogas desde el Yonqui de William S. Burroughs.»The Boston Globe En…
mil pedazos es el polémico testimonio de un hombre cuyo furioso impulso de autodestrucción solo es comparable a su inagotable deseo de sobrevivir. Imagina que te despiertas en un avión. No sabes dónde has estado ni adónde vas. Te faltan cuatro dientes, tienes la nariz rota y una herida en la mejilla. Vas sin cartera, no tienes trabajo y te busca la policía. Imagina que eres alcohólico desde hace diez años y adicto al crack desde hace tres. ¿Qué harías? A los veintitrés años, Frey ingresó en un centro de desintoxicación. Destruido física y mentalmente de forma casi irremediable, debía enfrentarse a una difícil decisión: aceptar que no llegaría a cumplir los veinticuatro o cambiardrásticamente el curso de su vida. Rodeado de pacientes en la misma situación, Frey luchó contra el dogma de «cómo recuperarse» para conseguir encontrar su propio camino y decidir qué futuro, si le esperaba alguno, era el que quería alcanzar. Su testimonio, En mil pedazos, se convirtió en un fenómeno literario, hasta que una larga investigación descubrió que el autor había ficcionado más de un pasaje del libro, lo que desató una gran polémica. Sin embargo, sigue siendo una lectura hipnótica e iluminadora sobre un hombre cuyo furioso impulso de autodestrucción solo es comparable a su inagotable deseo de sobrevivir. La crítica ha dicho...«Unas memorias íntimas, vívidas y sentidas. ¿Es Frey el mejor escritor de su generación? Tal vez.»New York Press «Atrapante [...]. Una gran historia [...]. No puedes evitar aplaudir su victoria.»Los Angeles Times Book Review «Una estrella literaria en ascenso [...] que ha dado a luzun relato poético de su recuperación. En mil pedazos es descarnado [...], perturbador [...]. Está repleto de emoción cruda.»Chicago Sun Times «El libro de Frey se distingue de los demás [...]. Un lenguaje sobrio y sin concesiones oculta el horror de lo que está describiendo: un colapso enviado en telegramas.»The New York Times Book Review «Su prosa es repetitiva hasta el punto de ser exasperante, la historia, con sus incursiones a la conciencia de un adicto, es en proporción difícil de dejar.»Publishers Weekly «Nuestro acerado narrador transmite la urgencia y el espíritu juvenil con un tono airado y clínico [...] que crea sorprendentes acumulaciones de verosimilitud y retratos humanos plausibles.»Kirkus «Uno de los libros más convincentes del año [...]. Increíblemente audaz [...]. De alguna manera logra lo que tres décadas de anuncios cursis de servicios públicos y actividades extraescolares no han conseguido: describir la adicción a las drogas duras como el apocalipsis autoinfligido que es.»The New York PostPedigree
By Patrick Modiano. 2005
"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me"Taking in a…
vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete with insecurity and sorrow that informed the oeuvre of France's Nobel Laureate. With his sometime-actress mother and shady businessman father barely functioning in any parental role, the young Modiano spent his childhood being packed off to the care of others, or held at a safe distance in a grimy boarding school - which he ran away from several times. His impecunious mother had "a heart of stone"; his womanising father once called the police when his son asked him for money, and later ceased all contact with him.But for all his parents' indifference, it is the death of his younger brother when Modiano is eleven that cuts deepest, leaving a wound that can never be healed.The Parable Book
By Per Olov Enquist. 2013
"The love that dare not speak its name . . ." Sweden, 1949. A boy of 15, cutting across a…
garden, chances upon a woman of 51. What ensues is cataclysmic, life-altering. All the more because it cannot be spoken of. Can it never be spoken of?Looking back in late old age at an encounter that transformed him suddenly yet utterly, P.O. Enquist, a titan of Swedish letters, has decided to "come out" - but in ways entirely novel and unexpected. He has written the book that smoldered unwritten within him his entire life. The book he had always seen as the one he could not write.This poignant memoir of love as a religious experience - as a modern form of the Resurrection - is also a deeply felt reflection on the transitoriness of friendship, the fraught nature of family relationships, and the importance of giving voice to what cannot be forgotten. A parable as hauntingly intense as any Bergman film.Translated from the Swedish by Deborah Bragan-TurnerNecropolis (Russian Library)
By Vladislav Khodasevich. 2019
Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our…
time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia’s literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era.Written at various times throughout the 1920s and 1930s following the deaths of its subjects, Necropolis is a literary graveyard in which an entire movement, Russian Symbolism, is buried. Recalling figures including Alexander Blok, Sergey Esenin, Fyodor Sologub, and the socialist realist Maxim Gorky, Khodasevich tells the story of how their lives and artworks intertwined, including a notoriously tempestuous love triangle among Nina Petrovskaya, Valery Bryusov, and Andrei Bely. He testifies to the seductive and often devastating power of the Symbolist attempt to turn one’s life into a work of art and, ultimately, how one man was left with the task of memorializing his fellow artists after their deaths. Khodasevich’s portraits deal with revolution, disillusionment, emigration, suicide, the vocation of the poet, and the place of the artist in society. One of the greatest memoirs in Russian literature, Necropolis is a compelling work from an overlooked writer whose gifts for observation and irony show the early twentieth-century Russian literary scene in a new and more intimate light.