«Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa». Silence in not the absence of sound: there is a sound called silence.
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Haruki Murakami’s passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand […]
«Bob Dylan Letras Completas»: L’obra lírica completa del premi Nobel de literatura a l’any 2016!
Bob Dylan, cantautor de cantautores, recientemente galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura -del que sólo hizo acuse de recibo por unas horas en su web-, presenta la edición integral de su cancionero completo, en edición bilingüe.
Esta edición ofrece, por fin, […]
«Women and Power»: A modern feminist classic by Mary Beard
Why the popular resonance of ‘mansplaining’ (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)?
It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously. A bit like when I get lectured on Roman history […]
Summertime by J.M Coetzee: compelling, funny, moving and full of life!
«Summertime» és una novel·la publicada a l’any 2009 per l’autor J.M Coetzee, Premi Nobel de Literatura. És la tercera d’una sèrie de memòries novel·lades per l’autor. Detalla la vida d’un noi des de la perspectiva de cinc persones que l’han conegut.
La novel·la és ambientada a […]
Dear Life, d’Alice Munro, guanyadora del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 2013.
She has got a peerless ability to give us the essence of life in brief but spacious and timeless stories. Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped, the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate.
Munro’s clarity […]
Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore de Luigi Pirandello, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 1934.
Su un palcoscenico una compagnia di attori prova la commedia ‘Il giuoco delle parti’.
Irrompono sei individui, un Padre, una Madre, il Figlio, la Figliastra, il Giovinetto e la Bambina. Sono personaggi rifiutati dallo scrittore che li ha concepiti. Essi […]
Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue, novel·la escrita per Patrick Modiano, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 2014.
Quatre narrateurs (un étudiant de l’école des mines, un détective privé, l’héroïne et un de ses amants) construisent le portrait de Jacqueline Delanque ou Louki. Jeune femme ayant rapidement quitté son mari,elle flâne dans le […]
«The Grapes of Wrath», escrit per John Steinbeck, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 1962.
It was first published in 1939, the Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles of the 1930s. It tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. They are driven from their homestead and forced to […]
«L’Étranger», escrit per Albert Camus, guanyador del Premi Nobel per la Literatura al any 1957.
Condamné à mort, Meursault. Sur une plage algérienne, il a tué un Arabe. À cause du soleil, dira-t-il, parce qu’il faisait chaud. On n’en tirera rien d’autre. Rien ne le fera plus réagir : ni l’annonce de sa condamnation, ni la mort […]
«The Golden Notebook» de Doris Lessing, guanyadora del Premi Nobel per la literatura al any 2007.
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. The black cover one is the review of the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her […]
