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¿Es el suicidio un acto de desesperación… o la forma más radical de libertad? En este libro provocador y profundamente humano, Ismael Martí se adentra en las vidas —y sobre todo en las muertes— de algunas de las figuras más memorables que decidieron poner fin a su existencia. De Sócrates a Sylvia Plath, de Mishima a Virginia Woolf, de Demóstenes a Empédocles, esta antología traza una cartografía del suicidio como hecho biográfico, dilema ético, símbolo existencial y espejo de cada época.

In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht. Bei seinen Tagebüchern herrscht durchaus ebenfalls diese ganz eigene Stimmung, allerdings überwiegend in einer starken Reduzierung der Gedankengänge auf ziemlich kurze, nicht ausgearbeitete spontane Sätze und unmittelbare Eindrücke, was dem Tagebuch-Genre geschuldet ist. Dennoch interessant aufgrund der Persönlichkeit Manns und seinem Austausch mit prominenten Literatur-Größen wie Hermann Hesse, Peter Suhrkamp, Franz Werfel u. a.

Der größte deutschsprachige Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts unterhielt einen regen Briefverkehr, in dem er seinen brillanten Geist in Form philosophischer Geistesblitze, aphoristischer Gedankenstreiche und wunderbarer Situationskomik offenbart. Immer 100%ig Gotteslästerlich, Todesverachtend und Lebensbejahend, dabei ironisch-schmunzelnd gesellschafts- und staatskritisch, aber eben auch mit Tiefgang und Herz.

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Essays: Die Spike, Eine Hinrichtung, Erinnerungen an eine Buchhandlung, Einen Elefanten erschießen, Down the Mine, Nord und Süd, Die spanische Bohne ausschütten, Marrakesch. Geboren in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie Indien verlief das Leben von George Orwell alles andere als geradlinig.

LA VITA E L’EPOCA DI WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Del sommo poeta inglese, forse il più grande autore di ogni tempo e luogo, ci restano 884.647 parole (ma solo quattordici scritte di suo pugno). Molte meno sono le informazioni che abbiamo sulla sua vita, quasi nulla possiamo affermare con certezza...

A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize–winning American author Cormac McCarthy, from Tracy Daugherty, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist biography Larry McMurtry: A Life. Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America’s greatest novelists. In his body of work...

The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette. It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism...

A dazzlingly original and ambitious audiobook on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: "Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954". Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida...

"Viver não pode ser só isso" é uma investigação lítero-poético-filosófica sobre o que é o viver. Com crônicas que passeiam pelas memórias do autor, desde a infância até os dias atuais, Lucã...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: "Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954". Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida...

Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. An account of Annie Ernauxs love affair with journalist Marc Marie while she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and their combined project to document images and memories. Love and death cohabit in The Use of Photography, with alternating chapters...

A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vice that is equal parts history lesson, true-crime expos, and memoir. Its 2008, and its been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still...

In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was...

You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when...

Ben Cheever's hilarious and profound odyssey through the want-ad world. In 1995, America was in the throes of downsizing-fever. Many thousands then, as now, were losing their jobs to the corporate demand of more money for the top, by tightening the belt below. Unable to sell his latest novel...

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography of America's greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the...

Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. It also offers a personal background to the subtexts of his later novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's experiences...

Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the...

Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award...