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“Min far ville slå min mor ihjel en søndag i juni først på eftermiddagen.” Sådan begynder Skammen. Annie Ernaux er 12 år, da hun overværer, at hendes far forsøger at slå hendes mor ihjel i kælderen ved familiens café og købmandsbutik. Umiddelbart efter den voldsomme hændelse...

На написание этих автобиографических рассказов у Андрея Рубанова ушло 15 лет. С одной стороны, это многогранная история взросления, обычная синусоида вырванных у жизни побед и внезапных поражений. С другой — летопись смутных времен, наступивших после развала СССР, размышление о поисках смысла там, где его приходится создавать из представлений о прекрасном будущем и ранящего опыта прожитых лет. «Стыдные подвиги» — это галерея портретов эпохи, каждый день которой приходится делать выбор между выгодой и совестью.

Je suis né d'un coup de foudre. Quelques années plus tard, à quarante ans, ma mère est diagnostiquée souffrante d'une sclérose en plaques. Mon père devient, bien malgré lui, son aidant. Moi, j'assiste impuissant à leur chute. C'est avant tout la plus belle histoire d'amour qu'il m'ait été donné de voir que j'ai voulu raconter.

ARE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO STEP INTO THE DARKNESS? Edgar Allan Poe did not truly die. In the years since his mysterious demise, his works have captivated millions and spawned the genres of horror and the detective story. His masterpieces — filled with talking ravens and buried women, haunted...

Guendalina Middei torna a farci innamorare della letteratura, stavolta accompagnandoci nei segreti degli autori più amati di sempre. Dickinson, Hemingway, Calvino, ma anche Van Gogh, Bulgakov, Darwish e Deledda, sono i protagonisti di sette originalissimi racconti con cui Middei ci accompagna...

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...

2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and Macbeth, but these are...

"[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed." ―The New Yorker In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. "I wanted to end each day with a record of...

"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...

Às vésperas do centenário de Nelson Rodrigues, sua filha Sonia se dedicou a reler o material que acumulou a respeito dele e de sua obra para o portal nelsonrodrigues. com. br, criado por ela em 2000. O levantamento inicial levou em conta tudo o que estava disponível...

A Storytel tem o orgulho de publicar exclusivamente em áudio a primeira temporada de A vida como ela é, do célebre autor Nelson Rodrigues. Inicialmente publicada como uma coluna diária no Jornal Última Hora, os contos de A vida como ela é se tornaram...

'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' The Sunday Times Time Lived, Without Its Flow is a beautiful, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her celebrated collection...

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...

A timeless, “triumphant” (Entertainment Weekly) story of healing and recovery from the victim of a crime that shocked the nation: the Central Park Jogger. As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the...

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each...

To store lidenskaber dominerer Haruki Murakamis liv: at skrive og at løbe, og for ham kan det ene ikke tænkes uden det andet. Når han løber, henter han det overskud, den inspiration og frem for alt den vedholdenhed, der skal til for at kunne skrive. Erindringen om arbejdet med de romaner...

A sparkling exploration of the myths that J. R. R. Tolkien created around himself, examining the social and political worlds that surrounded the creator of Middle-Earth, by award-winning biographer D. J. Taylor. In the past seven decades J. R. R. Tolkien's major works—The Hobbit, The Lord of...

Dans Les Moissons funèbres, livre devenu instantanément un classique de la littérature américaine, Jesmyn Ward raconte les difficultés rencontrées par la population rurale du Sud des États-Unis à laquelle elle appartient et porte tant d'affection. En l'espace de quatre ans, cinq jeunes hommes noirs avec lesquels Jesmyn Ward a grandi sont morts dans des circonstances violentes. Ces décès n'avaient aucun lien entre eux si ce n'est le spectre puissant de la pauvreté et du racisme qui balise l'entrée dans l'âge adulte des jeunes hommes issus de la communauté africaine-américaine.

Eine kleine Stadt in der Schweiz. Ein Haushalt mit einer Frau und ihrem Sohn. Es gibt keinen Mann, es gibt Männer. Und an Geld herrscht immer Mangel, an Zärtlichkeit erst recht. Die Mutter von Lukas Bärfuss war eine Frau ohne Bildung und ohne Perspektiven, dafür mit einem unstillbaren Freiheitsverlangen. Das Kind sah sie als Fessel, sie hatte sich dieses Leben nicht ausgesucht.

Der größte deutschsprachige Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts hat auch Tagebücher geschrieben – und was für welche! Ein wilder Mix aus augenblicklichen Frauengeschichten, Freizeitaktivitäten mit Kumpels, Gedanken zu seinen zahlreichen Werken, den Vorbedingungen für das Schaffen von kleiner und großer Kunst, natürlich schwerpunktmäßig hinsichtlich seiner Bühnenstücke. Zwischendurch gewürzt mit elegant-burlesken Liedtexten und kurzen Gedichten.