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Andrés Hoyos, fundador y director de la revista El Malpensante, presenta en este libro, de forma directa, entretenida y muy útil, herramientas y conceptos para perder el miedo y poder escribir bien. La escritura no es un tema de genios, es el resultado de una serie de actividades y acciones encaminadas hacia un objetivo claro: expresar de forma escrita lo que se tiene en mente.
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Richard Holmes supo que se había convertido en biógrafo cuando le devolvieron un cheque: sin darse cuenta, lo había fechado en 1772. Es que son muchos años dedicado a seguir los pasos de los protagonistas de sus libros, viajando en el tiempo y en el espacio. En estas páginas, recorre las Cevenas francesas siguiendo los "Viaje con una burra" de Stevenson. Viaja a París en pleno mayo del 68 y descubre allí las aventuras revolucionarias y sentimentales...
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In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writers addresses a key
issue for today. The courage of Czech writers is legendary. During the Cold War they kept their nation's conscience alive by clandestine publishing while imprisoned as "dissidents" or collecting garbage, washing windows or selling fish as "non-persons," and then they took the lead in the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew communism.
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At the creation the old gods determined, humans required guidance. It was decreed that a solar planetary alignment would occur every five hundred years. At this time a "Calling of the Council of the Elders" would be held bringing diverse beings through the void of time.
King Zaghar and the Lord of the Dead, tried to prevent this "Calling" from happening. The sages foretold this calling would bring an individual far different from any in memory....
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En 23 sous-thèmes, l'auteur questionne le rapport à l'accouchement dans la littérature
Lorsque j'étais enceinte, certes influencée par mon histoire familiale, accouchement signifiait drame. Et quand je me suis demandée ce que les livres m'avaient appris sur le sujet, je me suis retrouvée face au trou noir. Un seul récit est remonté à ma mémoire, de Zola, mais il était flou. En le relisant, j'ai compris pourquoi je l'avais occulté: il...
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Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporary
works of literature from France, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The book
includes discussion of works by nine different authors, including Anne Carson, Marie NDiaye,
Paul Auster, and César Aira. It considers the way that specific texts identify and interrogate
textual boundaries, and also draw attention to questions of closure. Each of these...
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Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.
Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature—in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the essay document the relationship between literature and skepticism in different but complementary and, at the same time, complicit ways. As the narrative...
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This is the SECOND BOOKLET in the MARGARET OGOLA'S THE RIVER AND THE SOURCE series. It examines the nature of the themes against world themes in literature, and the Elements of Style used in this novel. Themes and Style are studied in depth to enable the reader not only get insight into the nevel but also acquire skills applicable to the study of other novels.
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When he died at the age of thirty-seven, Vincent van Gogh left a legacy of over two thousand artworks, for which he is now justly famous. But van Gogh was also a prodigious writer of letters-more than eight hundred of them, addressed to his parents, to friends such as Paul Gauguin, and, above all, to his brother Theo. His letters have long been admired for their exceptional literary quality, and art historians have sometimes drawn on the letters in...
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Edwige Wilson tente de répondre à la question aussi surprenante que fondamentale : comment la pensée naît-elle du corps à corps avec un balai ?
La concentration exercée pour l'accomplissement de la tâche est-elle de la même intensité si le résultat est immédiat ou change-t-elle avec la durée ? La réponse me paraît simple. Dans le premier cas, la concentration est intense et focalisée puis disparaît lorsque l'action se termine. Dans...
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Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself...
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Mystery: Detecting Truth in the DarknessA good mystery brings the reader into the mind of the detective: searching for clues, questioning suspects, and coming to conclusions. We like to play along, hoping to crack the case before the ultimate reveal. In a way, it feels like our real lives as we try to piece together the parts of our existence and discover what they mean. That is why mysteries are the perfect playground for the cultural apologist who...
94) Cobblestone
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Ranging through a history of changing empires, monarchies, countries, regimes, religions, down to the disappearing shop-fronts and street names, Hungary is always there, through the Millennium celebrations over a century ago, amid the exhausted last days of communism, and even under today's "illiberal democracy".
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The Ship of Fools has established Cristina Peri Rossi, author of a dozen other books of poetry and prose, as a leading writer in Europe and Latin America. This is her most important work in English and is, recognized as a modern classic.
The Ship of Fools subverts and reinvents the novel form, its characters, genders, and language, mixing fantasy and reality, medieval and modern. The wandering hero refuses to conform to an established order that can...
96) Go Ask the Dead
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This tale deals with a beautiful young girl, Amanda Mannon, who comes from a rather haunted family and becomes rather haunted herself. Surviving her morally loose mother's murder, and her seductive handsome stepfather's murder attempt of her, She goes to live with a wealthy great-aunt Lavinia Mannon. Because she can both see and talk and interact with the dead, she has a long-term affair with William, the ghost of long-dead Confederate officer killed...
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Author of the radical 2000 Words manifesto for writers during the Prague Spring of 1968, Ludvík Vaculík was banned from all official publishing after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in the decades until the fall
of communism with the Velvet Revolution of 1989. However, as founding editor of the Padlock Editions of informally circulated typescripts, he was central to maintaining independent writing and ideas in the Czech
language. This...
98) Rue du Retour
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His magisterial prose and poetry have won Abdellatif Laâbi successively France's Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie Française. Rue du Retour brings to the English reader the full drama and intensity of the poet's thought and words in this account of his return to life and hope after torture and then more than eight years in a Moroccan prison. He now lives in exile in Paris, but is honoured in his home country...
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Book, Born, Broken, Blessed II speaks about the life of a woman named Madison; she was born into a struggling marriage between her parents that led her into a generational curse. Madison spent her entire adult life seeking love in all the wrong places before her strongest desire was met. Madison found out through her faith that true love is a gift from God. After all, He (God) loved the world "so much" that He gave His only son.
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Sunset in the Morning is a tragic novel whose simplicity, rare imagery, idiom and accent carries the torch of modern African literature. In the novel Ndoda, a seasoned former liberation struggle fighter, is appointed to spearhead development in Uzumba. Initially he is a hero but the trappings of power transform him into a ruthless dictator, who brooks no criticism.
Ndoda's autocratic rule is, however, fiercely opposed by David Kaseke, a high school...
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