Alberto: 1641 books

Painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, and composer, Alberto Savinio was one of the most gifted and singular Italian writers of the twentieth century. Italian critics rank him alongside Pirandello, Calvino and Sciascia, but he is hardly known to American readers. He was the younger brother...

Reminiscent of the enigmatic fictions of Latin American greats Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, *The Mystery of Rio *is a finely wrought work of fiction that will transport readers into a thrilling literary hall of mirrors where they might find themselves reflected at times, and pleasurably...

This is the first major, book-length memoir of a political prisoner from Mexico's "dirty war" of the 1970s. Written with the urgency of a first-person narrative, it is a unique work, providing an inside story of guerrilla activities and a gripping tale of imprisonment and torture at the...

Immersion dans une prison pour un atelier d'écriture hors du commun. Lorsque Federico Aranguren décide d’animer un atelier d’écriture dans la prison Ouest, il n’imagine pas que cette expérience va bouleverser sa perception de la vie. Une expérience d'écriture unique qui changera...

Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous—his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking...

Every city has its own rhythm, its own beat and character; none more so than Barcelona. To commemorate the 2016 European Science Fiction Convention being held in this historic city, NewCon Press invited many of Spain’s top SF and fantasy authors to join those from Britain, France, and Canada to write...

Este libro contiene los torcidos frutos de nueve fértiles imaginaciones, nueve correrías por regiones de luminosas vidas cotidianas que han sido invadidas por la oscuridad. Si te aventuras a internarte en sus páginas en compañía de José Luis Zárate, Karen Chacek, Raquel Castro, Rodolfo JM,...

La literatura brevísima es un animal elástico y anfibio que cambia de hábitat a la menor provocación: de ahí su capacidad de rozar otros géneros (cuento, poesía, ensayo, aforismo) de manera inverosímil (como la salamandra y sus metamorfosis) y construir una sinfonía en corto que no deja de...

The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached...

In this fascinating book by psychologist and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo, you’ll discover how you can heal yourself and your loved ones by employing journeying, the powerful process used by the shamans of the Americas. The practices of soul retrieval and destiny retrieval are also described...

Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as...

¿Por qué la figura de Prometeo es tan importante y simbólica en la historia de la cultura? ¿Qué tienen en común el Prometeo de Hesíodo y Platón con las recreaciones de Goethe y Fritz Lang, con el Frankenstein de Mary Shelley o el Prometheus de Ridley Scott? La potencia poética y hermeneútica...

«No resulta fácil encontrar, en la logia mayor de la literatura española contemporánea, una observadora de la cotidianidad tan aguda, profunda y lúcida como Carmiña Martín Gaite. Nadie como ella para reparar en ese detalle, aparentemente nimio, que revela una dependencia, subraya un ejercicio...

Durante las últimas décadas, Luis Alberto de Cuenca ha colaborado asiduamente como columnista y crítico literario del diario ABC. Juramentado contra el aburrimiento, sus gustos literarios saltan del clasicismo a lo popular: Homero y Virgilio caminan de la mano con el Príncipe Valiente y Shakespeare...