Sur: 447 books

En publiant ce volume — et le prochain — nous avons voulu témoigner que ce n’était pas en vain que des efforts de toute sorte : intellectuels, financiers, matériels, y avaient été consacrés, pendant des années. Le résultat de travaux qui, au premier abord et au vu des premières publications,...

Les trois contributions réunies dans cette première livraison des Cahiers de l'IREMAM apportent des éclairages complémentaires au phénomène complexe du café dans le Proche-Orient. La mise en parallèle d'une cérémonie turque du café (Hélène Desmet) et de la cérémonie de thé japonaise...

Questo esilarante romanzo, pubblicato per la prima volta in Messico nel 1988 e finalmente tradotto in italiano dalle edizioni SUR, ci permette di fare la conoscenza con uno dei più immaginifici, indimenticabili personaggi della storia letteraria recente: la divina Marietta Karapetiz. Nel raccontare...

La plurinationalité est un objet de polémiques récurrent, en particulier celle des citoyens « à cheval » sur la Méditerranée par leurs nationalités, à la fois européens et maghrébins. D’une rive à l’autre, on questionne leur loyauté, possiblement écornée par leur double appartenance...

L’inseguitore è il più famoso racconto di Julio Cortázar. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1959 e oggi proposto in una nuova traduzione, è un appassionato omaggio a un grande del jazz: l’intramontabile Charlie Parker. Magistralmente narrata, la storia descrive gli ultimi giorni del suo alter...

Un certo Julio è due libri in uno. Il primo è una lunghissima intervista inedita a Julio Cortázar in cui l’autore di Storie di cronopios e di famas, di Un certo Lucas, parla di sé non come scrittore ma in quanto lettore (le scorpacciate giovanili di polizieschi e fantascienza; l’amore adulto...

John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was a radical American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and he went on to Harvard College, graduating in 1916. He was well-traveled, visiting Europe and the Middle...

Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós1 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 10 de mayo de 1843 - Madrid, 4 de enero de 1920), conocido como Benito Pérez Galdós, fue un novelista, dramaturgo, cronista y político español. Se le considera uno de los...

Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938), esta escritora argentina nació en Suiza en 1892, en la región de habla italiana. Vivió en Rosario, estudió Magisterio en la Escuela Normal y fue profesora de arte dramático, hizo alguna incursión en el teatro, pero lo más...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. Joining the army at 21, he was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and The Daily Mail. Struggling with debt,...

Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in the north of modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he immigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began...

El Norte Grande de Chile, ha contribuido a otorgarle a este país una nueva y rica sonoridad: la andina. La Nueva Canción Chilena usó estos recursos. El sonido de la quena, zampoña y charango ayudó a saber algo más de este desconocido territorio para el resto de los chilenos. La obra de Osvaldo...

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel."...

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. A further two Hollywood...