Literatura
Noche de los Libros: Celebración de Louise Glück, Nobel Literatura 2020
Celebración de la poeta estadounidense Louise Glück, ganadora del premio Nobel de Literatura 2020. Lectores: Estudiantes de Aquinas American School — Madrid. Con motivo de la celebración de la Noche de los Libros 2020, estudiantes de Aquinas American School presentan una selección de poemas de Louise Glück en colaboración con American Space Madrid. La lectura
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“The anatomy of influence: literature as a way of life” by Harold Bloom “In this, his most comprehensive and accessible study of influence, Bloom leads us through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. The result is «a critical self-portrait», a sustained meditation
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“The stonecutter” by Camilla Lackberg “In the third novel from the bestselling female writer in Sweden—and for the first time in English—the mysterious drowning of a little girl threatens to tear apart the town of Fjallbacka. The remote resort town of Fjallbacka has seen its share of tragedy, though perhaps none worse than that of
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“La casa de las bellas durmientes” por Yasunari Kawabata “El viejo Eguchi acude a una casa secreta, a las afueras de Tokio, donde los ancianos yacen cada noche con jóvenes y hermosas vírgenes narcotizadas para la ocasión. Las reglas de la casa son inflexibles: no practicar el sexo con las adolescentes, no intentar despertarlas de
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“Sendebar: libro de los engaños de las mujeres” “Pieza escogida y señera de entre las traducciones de obras árabes que se llevaron a cabo a mediados del siglo XIII bajo los auspicios del rey Alfonso X, el Sendebar (de remoto origen persa, o acaso sánscrito, y trasladado en 1253 por orden de Fadrique, el hermano
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“Doctor Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak “The best way to understand Pasternak’s achievement in Doctor Zhivago is to see it in terms of this great Russian literary tradition, as a fairy tale, not so much of good and evil as of opposing forces and needs in human destiny and history that can never be reconciled .
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“Girl in hyacinth blue” por Susan Vreeland “Tells the story of an imaginary painting by Vermeer, and the aspirations and longings of those whose lives it illuminates, and darkens. From a proud father regretting his lost love to a compromised French noblewoman, from a hanged girl to Vermeer’s own gifted daughter, Susan Vreeland’s beautiful and luminous
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“Women writers of the Middle Ages” by Peter Dronke “This book gives a detailed picture of the contributions made by women writers to Western literature from the third century to the thirteenth. Many of the texts Peter Dronke presents and interprets have hitherto remained unknown, or virtually inaccessible; some have never been edited or translated
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“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoi “Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel’s first complete appearance was in book form.”